“Luka-Kyrie is an unstoppable duo” – ESPN reacts Mavericks beat Spurs 113-107; Doncic triple-double

“Luka-Kyrie is an unstoppable duo” – ESPN reacts Mavericks beat Spurs 113-107; Doncic triple-double

Boy the Mavs have a flare for the dramatic these days Kyrie of course always with a flare around the rim The Crafty creative clutch Kai at it again putting this team on his back scoring 10 of his 28 in the fourth quarter leading the Mavs to the finish line for a sixth

Time in their last seven games and a season High 11 games over 500 Dana Larson and Devin Harris here with you for the postgame edition of Mavs live it may have been a little closer than you’d like at times but you put it in the win column and it’s their

40th of the Season keep the good times rolling Devon yeah it’s when you play some of these teams that aren’t playing for anything at the year they can kind of play loose and free and all the pressure is on you because you need to win these games to remain in the race

And and we saw you know kind of human factor kick in after a huge win against Denver kind of not the typical game we Tred to see Luca didn’t really shoot too well but Kai was able to step up and and put on his cape and carry the offensive

Load defensively I thought they were active and you wom Yama didn’t have a normal game either so it was kind of on both sides where the star players didn’t play up to their potential and you’re fine when you can still find ways to win and your Superstar isn’t the normal

Superstar kind of night or your three-point shooting isn’t where it has been a lot throughout the season and you’re still in it because you’ve got a guy like Kyrie Irving they don’t call him Mr fourth quarter for nothing and he has helped Le the Mavericks are the best

Clutch record in the NBA their 20th win of the season when it comes down to clutch play uh he truly looked like he was uh still thriving off that buzzer beater uh just a couple of days ago and feeling great out there yeah two words I like to use uh recognition understanding

You know luk is not having the game you know he typically has he has to you know kind of fill the void and be a little bit more aggressive maybe early in the game than he would normally do in awareness and understanding the fourth quarter you know they’re going to play

Through him and understanding guys are overplaying you know see a lot of back doors and able to get layups you know when teams are are really starting to take away what he does well and Kyrie here now of course with the big shot the other night and all of the national and

Global publicity that came from that and then a night tonight where he lifts the team when uh Luca has an uncharacteristic cold shooting night it feels like the right moment to to shine some Spotlight on what has truly been uh a very efficient season and if he can

Get there would be one of the more rare accomplishments Devin a 50 40 90 kind of a year he’s already done it once in his career which really says a lot about the kind of shooter and scorer that he is but it’s rare because it’s hard it it’s

Really hard it just it speaks to love like you said of efficient this isn’t a guy that you know doesn’t shoot the ball and you know he’s shoots b a lot I mean 21 Shots tonight so you know the ability to be able to have that type of impact

On the game and do it in an efficient way and and does it in a variety of different ways his ability to finish around big guys I mean you got a s foot five guy out there that you’re able to finish over you know his pull-ups his ability to score on double

Teams like I said back doors recogn recognizing when teams are overplaying him you know left hand right hand you know free throw line you know he it’s been you know I think 48 49 and he’s made a row now so just an efficient way of playing basketball alongside with you

Know playing with another guy like Luca you know explains you know how detrimental this team can can really get to you know with this type of dominance with these two guys and going and playing well going to the playoffs it’s going to be a fun you know last 14 games

And it’s interesting too because we talked about what how efficient he was and how good of a shooting night he had oh for five from three though he’s doing all of that didn’t hit a three tonight Luca was two of 11 from three it was the other guys tonight a complete turnaround

From the story against Denver from three-point shooting uh where it was the rest of the teammates and Dante exom came through in a huge way hitting all four of his threes and truly they were at Big moments too where this game could have swung the the wrong way and I I

Think Jak kid loves having him on the floor at the end of games kind of as another point guard ball handler now he’s a big shot maker you know understanding when LCA gets double they’re going to you know look to him to make those big shots and you know he

Trusts him at the end of the game and have the ball in his hands he makes great decisions big highq high IQ guy and you know Jak kid wanted to start him when he was playing Major minutes now he’s understanding that he’s better off you know finishing a guy finished the

Game with these two guys on the floor and you get a lot of execution and very smart play yeah he’s been a pro for a lot of years and you can see that just how comfortable he is on the floor and in all of these situations you mentioned

Kid trusting him let’s hear now from the Mavs head coach after 113 to 107 win in San Antonio I guess it counts as W obviously so what would you think of aom’s uh play down the stretch uh yes it it does count as a w

Um not all wins are pretty um but uh just understanding exm down the stretch was huge big threes uh trust uh with that group that was out there on the defensive end um offensively it could be Kai it could be Luca it was exom Maxi made some great plays PJ uh

That group trusted one another um but again for us not to shoot the ball well um we relied on our defense uh to to help us get this win and uh and that’s again San Antonio is a team that puts a lot of pressure on your defense uh I

Thought the guys did a really good job on Victor and Vel um but um again we’re getting great looks uh Luca got a lot of great looks tonight just didn’t fall for him but again being able to find his teammates and trust them down the

Stretch uh is what a leader does and he did that tonight was there any reason or anything to take away from this game other than that occasionally this just happens uh he’s human I think uh I mean he still had a triple double I mean I know that’s

Boring um and it wasn’t pretty but like to to be able to have a triple double he didn’t shoot the ball well or to his standards um um and then to be able to rebound um I thought again his leadership and Trust down the stretch um

Was big to be able to find ask him for the threes uh to be able to give the ball up when they were fouling to let someone else get to the free throw line he did all the little things um but again for his standards or the standards

That we all kind of hold him to it just wasn’t his shooting night but uh he found a way to lead his team to Victory you get shot 29 threes that H 10 you know those numbers have been down from where they’ve been a lot this

Season is that do you see that as a new normal for you guys are you okay with those numbers and with they comes the kind of Defense defensive Focus if we’re going to expend that much energy on defense yeah I think that’s going to be

Our new Norm um but uh at some point the the offense will match the defense um and and vice versa the defense will match the offense once we get our legs underneath us we getting we’re getting Great Looks um I thought Timmy was good in the second half he has some good

Looks um exom hits the big game winners but I think we’re getting good looks but the defense as you can see um even on our poor shooting nights in the past we would uh definitely have lost this game or games in the past but um we rely on

Our defense we’re getting stops I thought a big another big possession we subbed our defensive group in um they came up with a a foul but we got two Miss free throws in the rebound so they did their part um and so uh again and the Special Teams and and everybody’s on

On Pace and I guess when you you look at it you know you’re not going to always play perfect but you know you found a way to win tonight in the similar vein what you’re talking about you didn’t shoot well and still won you also used to be if Luca

Particularly shot Bley you definitely weren’t going to win so is that another kind of sign of growth where the rest of the team is is obviously kind of built up around him and you’ve got you’ve got other finish for yeah I think Kai started 7 for seven um so I think that

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“Luka-Kyrie is an unstoppable duo” – ESPN reacts Mavericks beat Spurs 113-107; Doncic triple-double