Dallas Mavericks vs Oklahoma City Thunder Full Highlights 1st QTR | Mar 14 | 2024 NBA Regular Season

Dallas Mavericks vs Oklahoma City Thunder Full Highlights 1st QTR | Mar 14 | 2024 NBA Regular Season

Mavericks is underway you might have heard Ernie reference a big showdown game last game of the regular season between these two teams here in Oklahoma City on April 14th so far the season series split in one a piece Chad holgren missed the layup first possession empty for

Oklahoma City and now Dante aam into that starting lineup he’ll drive it and the little floater no gaffer is there for the offensive board he can’t finish it and that’s his first Miss in 34 attempts he falls too short of will Chamberlain’s record he was on an incredible run of consecutive made field

Goals and it ends with the very first possession here’s Lou dor gaffard with the rebound we’ll see how the Mavericks go without Luca donic tonight they have not won a road game without donence this year as Josh giddy Strong finish and finally the scoring gets going here with

Giddy’s tough layup well Oklahoma City leads the league in points off of turnovers and they take advantage right there Mavericks are 38 and 28 they jumped into that seventh spot with the Suns loss in Boston tonight and now a half game behind Sacramento they’ve got a a favorable

Schedule although they do have a West Coast trip coming but Dallas believes they can jump into the top six they can avoid that play in tournament going to be imperative to get LCA donic back as soon as they to the point where he’s an All-Star starter and

A legitimate MVP candidate sure is and you see Oklahoma City go in zone right here one 22 zone Jones spins and lays it in 50 move by Jones who’s been back in that starting lineup Jason kit has been in with his lineup quite a bit we’ll have to do so again tonight without

Donic this Maverick’s team doing a much better job on the defensive end since Gafford and wasley didn’t so there’s nine to shoot here Thunder got to go quick down to four SGA little cross to get rid of Jones KY the floater is good and they come up with

Points out of that possession I I like get’s cut there Gafford back in the paint no one guarding Josh kiddy Kyrie Irving buries a three it’s hard to be in drop coverage against uh Kyrie Irving Kyrie Irving figures to have a big night tonight there’s giddy once

Again yet he’s been steady this year minutes are down but he continues to be a big part of this very successful and young Oklahoma City Thunder team and he’s been on a roll last last 10 games averaging 14 points shoting 55% from the floor and 41% from three Gafford with a block

About Dallas against Golden State last night had 13 block shots Gafford had seven of those 13 block shots that was a win against the Golden State Warriors do was hurt in the fourth quarter of that game count that basket by Lou Dort and a foul well we see Oklahoma City just on

The attack everything going right at The Rim oh well you get the worst of it when you standing there on big loot dor and exam took a shot here yeah he took a charge too but they didn’t call it that way so BL Dort will be at the free throw

Line Oklahoma City also the best free throw shooting team in the league not a lot of weaknesses here with Oklahoma City as they fall back into that zone again they are not a good rebounding team and that’s about the only weakness they have one similarity between these

Two teams they don’t turn it over much Mavericks are third best in fewest turnovers it’s Thunder are fifth as PJ Washington able to score one of the Acquisitions coming to the Mavericks they changed their roster Finley a lot of credit they’re still going at it remember they had christops porzingis

And they were sure he was the guy to having the roster that they need he told me it started with adding Kyrie the second guy to play alongside Luca and after that the goal was to add athleticism length and defensive prowess to surround these guys said we have a

Bunch of good guys gaffard and PJ they Blended in really quickly and if they keep jelling he said I think we’re close and when you look at the rotations we’re also a way deeper team if Lucas yeah look offensively it has worked great Lauren no question about it uh but we’ll

Just have to see how this roster plays out I like Dallas’s defense here Gafford just staying in the lane but City just goes right at it that’s already 10 points in the paint plus three free throws even with Gafford just hanging around the rim Kyrie Irving has hit two

Three-pointers Josh Green entering the game prior to that last time out he gets up a three no good there’s Chad hren with the rebound and Williams pushing it here Jay du back in the starting lineup Dan he missed Tuesday’s game with a right ankle injury and for Oklahoma City

Fans they’re glad to have him back quickly here on Thursday yeah look Oklahoma City’s had Remarkable Health it’s one of the reasons they’ve had the season they have these five starters have missed a total of 11 games between them Derek Jones junor with a three-pointer the uh correlation between

Remarkable Health is a direct tie to remarkable youth of this Oklahoma City team an incredibly young team having this kind of success you rarely see it in the NBA here’s Williams again and Jaylen Williams he’s got a layup now a three-pointer making an impact quickly here in this first quarter Thunder

Leaded by three Irving slips one to ooh Gafford hammers one down with Chad holgren on his back that’s not rare to see that’s just Washington was kind of in and out of the starting lineup with Charlotte Gafford was always a starter in Washington big trade deadline deal Kyrie misses Here Comes Williams once

Again Williams turns it over run down from behind this just part of the new and improved Mavericks defense it felt like just a little bit improve would you agree that KIA is like electric like you’ve never seen or well I think it’s great these companies all

Going electric I mean you know need to get more no I don’t have any rebuttal we just need more charging stations keeping it real Stan spitting over here once again Gil Alexander little step back on Washington his right with him and Shay Gil just Alexander Reigns W in that was good defense yeah

It great defense and he only shoots three and a half threes a game but he’s at 38% steals in deflections F Alexander number one the rookie Dereck Lively on the floor for the first time wow Kyrie able to split that and now in rotation he finds the open man Washington missed

It gilis Alexander out of the pack being chased down though and green knocks it over his first minutes he got to start two day isah Joel car of the ball both in the top five and they each have four turnovers here in the first quarter now Oklahoma City normally forces the most

Turnovers in the league but Dallas doesn’t force them Oklahoma City’s got to do a better job yeah Green lays it in so that’s nine points off those turnovers for the Mavericks off those four Oklahoma City turnovers thed by one gildas Alexander guarded by Green finds Joe and that’s

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