FIRST TAKE | Mavs will sweep as Luka outplay Ant-Man – Shannon on Game 3: Mavericks-Timberwolves

FIRST TAKE | Mavs will sweep as Luka outplay Ant-Man – Shannon on Game 3: Mavericks-Timberwolves

from that it is and now they’re down 03 uh game four Monday night on ESPN all right let’s head to the West Luca donic what does he do rips the heart out of Minnesota at the end of game two uh they’re up two games to none the series shifts to Dallas what do you need to see from the Timberwolves so they can get back in this series well I need to see better judgment and particularly in the closing moments look we all know that that that Ant-Man is a star he’s going to be a bigger star we think there are more things coming for him but we’re going to need to see him with more composure and not throwing the ball all the way down the stretch and getting a shot off there when he could really have sealed that game so Minnesota has made some big mistakes as well so I got to see better judgment Linda from the Minnesota Timberwolves and better execution down the stretch and you know on the Dallas side right they come home they’re reading and hearing how great they are we’ll see if the you know pedal is to the metal for it needs to be because let’s face it Minnesota did beat the defending champs three games in Denver so it’s not like it’s beyond them we were talking about what we need to see from them but you know the the guy there’s a guy on their bench Jason kid he’s seen it all yeah and I I and you know there’s a couple of guys veterans on that Squad uh donic and Irving that I would suspect are not going to have that covered yeah yeah spread the message yep game three of that series Sunday night Michael thanks for joining us thanks for having me the Mavs and the Wolves Luka LCA magic I keep telling I’ve been telling people I’ve been I’ve been help to Luca for a minute the Mavs overcame an 18-point deficit Luca sealed the victory with a game-winning step back three-pointer over the defensive player of the year Rudy Gober Luca finished the game with another another triple double another 30-point triple double also 32 points 13 assists 10 rebounds Kyrie Irving 20 points six assist four rebounds Kyrie had what 14 points in the third quarter Nas Reed the 20 uh the Sixth Man of the Year led the timber wolves with a career high 23 points seven of nine for three nobody’s going to remember that because he missed the last one and it looked good from where I was saying but where it look where I was sitting oo it looked good again Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony towns struggle they scored 36 points on 33 shots uh towns didn’t play much in the fourth quarter he was subbed out and he didn’t come back in during that time Ant-Man checked out of the game 753 he came back with a that the 551 Mark yeah he was in the tunnel yeah receiving oxygen yeah yeah M dog had to get some oxygen now that’s it he had to get some oxygen well he said he wanted Kyrie yeah and you know what happened when you got to get Kyrie and you gota and you got to lock up and try to play defense on arguably the best one of if not the best handlers of the ball that has ever played this game game so it’s it’s been a tall task it’s been a very tall feat for Ant-Man and because he’s had to cover Kyrie and has chosen to take on that task it’s affected him offensively on the offens end of the off end of the game and I he 22 and he tied so what that tell you would it take the cover you can’t get tired at 22 sh yeah all right hold on Kobe tired at 22 Yeah was Jordan tired at 22 Yeah tired at 22 best they took the for the most part took there was no Kyrie Irving back then and that’s no disrespect to anybody else it’s not they had guys that could go get Buckets did they have guys that could go get Buckets see you can’t look at somebody just handling the ball always you always had that yeah so you got to try to neutralize him on one end right while still giving but see that’s what makes the guys great yes sir when LeBron was in his prime he could take a Kevin Durant try to hold him under what would normally get while still giving you what i’ normally give you on the other end and Michael and Kobe and the big guys when you saw David Robinson have to go up against elijahwan elijan have to go up against Shaq Shaq have to go up against other siners you still got to try to neutralize them I gotta try to shut you down keep you under what you normally do right because if you allow a guy to get what he normally does you ain’t did nothing I mean Oho if you play a DB and they okay you go you average let’s just say for the for the sake of argument you’re averaging five six catches a game for like 85 90 yards he let you get those numbers well what the hell have you done your job is to keep oo under that 85 90 yards I don’t care about the catches I want you to keep him those The Yards I want you to keep him out of the end zone so yeah it’s it’s tough and if you go back and look the last three games Ant-Man hadn’t shot the ball well why he had to go guard Jamal Murray takes a lot out of legs he had to guard guard Kyrie both game takes a lot out of your legs yeah if I’m them I put him on somebody else that’s not gonna because I need him on the other end Oho yeah you do I need him on the other end especially when especially when cat’s not playing well cat cat wasn’t playing well I mean Rudy Gober Rudy Gober go how do you say his last name the right way I don’t want to say go go Rudy Gober yes it’s not an offensive threat obviously if he if he’s under the rim if he’s by the rim if he’s in the post he is is you know um jade McDaniels yeah young bull only had two points H young bull only had two points man that man dealing with Luca how many points you thought he’ll get you I mean come on come on now you know so I mean it’s difficult and I think they need to make some adjustments some tactical schematical adjustments going to the next game against the Mavs because we need Ant-Man to be Ant-Man and it’s hard for Ant-Man to be Ant-Man and give give us what we want from the offensive standpoint when he’s having to chase Kyrie around that’s that’s that’s unfair even if he did call for it it’s unfair yeah no not but see normally what your best player does is he take probably the weakest offensive player on the other end so therefore he can rest uh therefore he can rest right and not exert so much energy energy right I mean it’s it’s look it’s a special type of person we’ve seen Kobe does it Kobe wanted that assignment but if you go back and look at Jordan when they played magic in 91 Jordan took magic magic had a triple double and the Lakers won the game game game games two through five the uh the the Bulls won the next four games yeah Scotty Pippen took Magic ah so oh so bingo with there the the proof is in the pudding get your best player off of Kyrie it was it was mainly because of the size differential magic is 69 and a half Jordan is 66 so magic just back magic see magic Post Yeah so magic just gonna back you down and then shoot over the top of you yeah but they put Scotty pipping on him Scotty pick him up 94 feet let’s try to wear him down but you look at Kobe Kobe always want Kobe Kobe didn’t know any better yeah Kobe always wanted who’s it if if you got a if a guard is your best player Kobe want that assignment yeah I mean LeBron used to have to take you know you go back and look at LeBron when they played the Bulls the year that the uh Dereck Rose won the MVP yeah LeBron took D Rose wait whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa with before post before the injury Rose Post Yeah that explosion LeBron took it go back and look at go back and look at the San Antonio Spurs Tony Parker they lost the first game LeBron took Tony Parker to for the basically it’s especially in the fourth quarter he locked him down the rest of the G wait I want to know what the results of the LeBron and Derrick Rose when he was in his prime how what that 41 41 yeah I think I think they won 41 because the Bulls that year had the best had the best record right but and still you have to like I said when you when you’re the the offensive guy you try to like see like bird they was like okay we’re going to give you the worst defensive guy because we need your offense right it don’t do me no good you shut that guy down and bird give you eight points bird need to give you them 25 10 and 10 that’s what he needs to do your offensive guys who you’re counting on because you go into the game I’m looking at okay I need JT to give me his average I need Jaylen Brown to give me his average I need Derek white to give me his average now Derek white knows that sometimes his offense is GNA suffer because he has to guard Tyrese halberton he has to guard one of the better players on the offensive end especially when it’s a guard so he understands that that’s why you have JT that’s why you have JB that can pick up the slack right but when you have guys if CAD is not picking up the slack Where Are You Gonna Get You can’t count I ain’t count no Rudy go better ever giving me 20 points in the playoffs so I’d be foolish to think that so you’re saying C uh you’re saying an if you take T Kyrie and you could somewhat neutralize him we know that’s going to take some sap out of your legs mhm hey Cat I need you to give me be G me about 30 yeah that’s what it that’s what it comes down to and see that’s what makes them so unique is that you got Luca and you got Kyrie right and you see what they did over the the last two shots Kyrie hit a corner three they made it a two-point game they get a rebound they call a timeout and now Luca says man I Have This Dance Mr Gober listen I’m I’m tripping why would Rudy Gober even be out there be out there in a situation like that I know I know I know he’s the defensive player of the year now the defensive player of the year he’s great at being in being when he’s down protor rim protector he’s rim protector by the three they need somebody with a little bit better lateral movement in quickness that should have been cat I’m not saying he wouldn’t have done cat like that because LCA would probably do 98% of the NBA players like that whoever whoever bring him out there you know out there by the three but just someone that would give him a a better chance one once he created that separation with that step back yeah it was it was it was a WAP it was a WAP Oho they’re down two points why do you care if Luca gets the layup now we’re tied and we get the ball back yeah and then now you got the last shot so if anything I would we going to overtime exactly I would applied pressure don’t even worry about the three don’t even worry about don’t even worry about the three pressing press him either make him let you know in that situation I’m gonna get the ball out of his hand oo I getting ready to say that let somebody else beat you in that situation other than K Kyrie and Luca are not shooting that last shot if PJ Washington want to take that shot if Derrick Jones want to take that shot anybody if if anybody else wants to take that last shot I’m GNA live with that but Kyrie and Luca I’m G to Blitz Kyrie excuse me I’m gonna Blitz I’m going trap it I gotta make you give it up so so can we blame the coach on that as soon as the pick H as soon as the pick happened soon as they did the pick and the switch happened and goddamn Rudy ended up on Luca somebody else should have trapped right away right away so that’s fa it’s the coach’s fault that’s why the Wolves lost that’s that’s why I’m blaming you got or you gotta say Jay no under no circumstances are you are you giving up on it don’t switch it oh don’t no hell no don’t switch it because once you because here’s the thing though oo once you switch it now Rudy goar’s on lucer so you tell him don’t switch nope if anything say hey when they come with that right let’s blit him let’s trap himy you come with the Trap hey Jade we gonna trap him we gonna make him give the ball up damn man and then I’m trying to figure out why the hell Rudy goar is on the court for the last shot what the hell he gonna do you not gonna throw it to it it’s only three seconds why was cat on the bench help me understand I asked that I’m sure he’s not H I think he’d have been he’d have been happy had they won even though it’s difficult because it’s like I’m one of the best I’m one of the two best players on the team right offensively offensively at that period uh and I’m not in the game in the fourth quarter because I think he checked out with 840 to go in the game yeah and he didn’t check back in even on the last shot whose decision is that is that the coach or is that him is there an injury that we don’t know about no it’s not an injur but I think the thing is is that Nas Reed that checked in if I’m not mistaken I think Nas Reed checked in for it and when in the process of that Nas was playing well so I can’t sub him back out right and you want to keep Rudy on the court for defensive purposes so now and we’re and hey and we it’s Nip Tuck ball game and so I I can see I see both sides of the coin I got it I got it now I got it stick with the hot hand stick with hot hellend n ended up with 23 points yeah you know damn and he had a great look at that three I thought I mean from where I was sitting I was like damn Derek Jones what are you thinking why you coming why would you come why would you come to double ant ant struggling shooting the ball right and give Nash Reed who stroking it from the three a wide openen look at it he did everything but put it down cuz it looked good you see that yep went right went right in came back at but yeah it’s uh it’s tough it’s tough on Rudy because when people look at the defensive player of the year they like well damn why everybody want to get the switch on you why everybody want to pick on you because he’s a rim protector he’s not a perimeter Defender and he does I mean bro how much lateral quickness you think you gonna have at seven foot seven foot not not much unless you gotam wom Yama no yes and so when you look at it and you look at it that and that like he’s not like an athletic aim alijan he’s not an athletic David Robinson right guys that had great lateral movement had tremendous change of Direction but I’m not so sure but will Luca start dancing like that you had his Mercy you hope you like Lord please hope let don’t let this ball go in please ca he gonna get the shot off oh yeah you not stopping it unless you understand because but you you’re not thinking in that moment right hell I don’t care if he beat me to the basket now we tied yeah the only way I can lose this game is if I let Luca hit a three that’s the only way we can lose we can’t lose this game in regulation if Luca lays this ball up and he hits a two-point shot because we’re two and we got what three seconds left in the ball game yeah and we got the ball at our end of the court because we called timeout the only way we lose if I let him get off for three yeah so once Luca starts dancing and I got him out of position now it’s just all depends well if I got a fish the one thing oo you don’t say you don’t like the fish but the one thing us fisherman knows once we get a Bigg one on the line yes we can’t let him off we got to bring him we got to bring him in yeah so once you get the fish I gotta take it to the market or else what how many times you heard somebody man I had one today but that joker got back Lucas said I can’t let you get back Rudy so he started dancing on it yeah I’m go oh no I’m back oh you right there well here take this with you hold that bam that’s the thing once once you get the big one oo you gotta keep it you can’t give it hey you can’t hold it too tight because he’ll snap your line you can’t give him too much because he’ll spin you out hey I got a big one Oho I got a big one hold him hold him right there don’t let him go

FIRST TAKE | Mavs will sweep as Luka Doncic dominate Ant-Man – Shannon on Mavericks-Timberwolves Game 3