[The Mavs and Luka are tired, so they have to adapt their game to survive](https://www.ballineurope.com/luka-doncic-and-the-dallas-mavericks-must-lean-in-to-their-reality-8424/)
Thanks again for all the feedback on the last two columns. This one is on how the Game 1 loss showed that the Mavs really need to play smarter and, frankly, uglier to work their way into the series.
by Strange_Principle364
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Totally agree about having to turn this series into a “street fight” if we want to stand a chance. We’ve all talked a lot about Luka’s form, we talked about the soft refereeing, but getting outrebounded by the Thunder – a notoriously poor rebounding team – and getting physically dominated by them is just not acceptable. If we don’t show a lot more toughness (particularly in the paint), we’ll lose this.
Refs need to let us play physical and Luka needs to learn to stop chucking 3s. I am guessing he learns from game 1 and stars working in the lane more like the last 2 games against clips.