Why Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks Came Up Short in Game 4 vs Minnesota

Why Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks Came Up Short in Game 4 vs Minnesota

on today’s show the Dallas Mavericks have the series extended on them what happened how did the Mavericks fall in this one we’ll talk about all that and more today’s lock on Mavs I’m and this is lock on maveri Maverick he it’s good and the Mavericks have won the game if you don’t believe you shouldn’t be here loyalty never Fades away and welcome you’re locked on of the Dallas Mavericks my name is Nick angad media member NBA channel manager for the locked on podcast Network your team every day thanks for being part of the show even when the maps lose and making lockdown Maps your first listen today where the best way you can help us grow the show is to listen every day on any podcast platform leave a five star review like the video on YouTube and comment anything below anything if you’re a timber wolves fan and you’ve woken up for the first time well good morning welcome welcome to the series Timberwolves fans go ahead and comment below and then if you’re a m fan go ahead and comment on lock on Timberwolves as well we got a lock down wolves we can talk to as well with Ben Beacon today’s episode is brought to you by Game Time download the game time app create an account use that code lock that NBA for $20 off your first purchase terms apply and joining me for the first time the three men we’ve after a loss after a loss fade the music down because it’s uh are we blaming slightly or we blaming you know what guys I’m willing to take the blame for this one because here’s the reality of the situation at hand right you have F usually every day usually here’s the thing every day I okay well this is a new spot for me being to the right usually I’m going to my left I’m bumping off but now I’m right to the right it’s a little bit but anyways here’s the thing right usually I’ll tweet out first thing in the morning everyone lock in get going here’s the thing here’s the thing right there was severe thunderstorms in the metrop ples today and I thought my life was in danger so I tweeted out really quickly just to make sure my followers knew that I was all right and safe you marked yourself safe right I basically marked myself safe and then I tweeted out later that I was locked in and the problem was I should have flip-flopped them and that’s on me that changed that changed the whole thing that changed the whole thing and Tim roll fans if you’re coming here to laugh at off here we come guys no no no trust me game five we’ll be back and ready you go you didn’t do anything joining me as always that was slightly bias from the great YouTu Channel you didn’t do a single thing and also from 105 through the band what you got for re out TOA the Press Box is a lot further away than our typical uh viewing location and I’m going to attribute that change to the reason why the Mavericks lost exactly all our seats were different so what we were all in different places we we were black but I guess not enough right I have white shoes on that might be my fault as well I mean I I’ll take all the blame let me know in the comment section what’s the Superstition you didn’t do for game four that you should have done for the maps to close this out I’m curious would you you a second can hear slightly breathing so hard after that L he’s really taking like Darth vad man I’m coming out of the what what do they call those the kbo chambers crypto Chambers I’m coming I’m coming currency chamber absolutely yeah I’m coming out Dodge Dogecoin ready to go to the Moon slightly by that’s where he’s going we’ll talk about how the Dallas Mavericks fell in game four we’ll talk about what happened we’ll talk about how they uh fared without Derek Lively what did they do with maxi in his return how did he look and uh we’ll talk about Luca and his play we’ll talk about Luca already took the blame for the loss he said I come out with enough energy we’ll talk about that but I think we got to start here we got to start with Kyrie Irving we got to start with how he played in this one because to me Kyrie Irving had a statement before the game it’s their Super Bowl talking about the Timberwolves it’s a Super Bowl for them for us it’s just another game and for Kyrie iring to come out the way that he did in this game play almost 42 minutes six of 18 from the field four assists four turnovers it’s just not enough from Kyrie Irving especially to make that statement and come out and have that game well it’s funny cuz I said before the game I was like I had people who hit me up who are upset about that comment and were like I wish they wouldn’t say it but I said I was like if anyone were to say that on the team and it’s Kyrie Irving that’s okay to me because it is Kyrie Irving he’s been here he’s won a championship he knows what it takes 14 and0 in closeout game right this was his first closeout loss of his career so um yeah he was he was not good tonight and I don’t necessarily think Luca was very good tonight either and um I mean look we we we can do the runaround we can talk about this guy wasn’t good this guy wasn’t good I understand I want to speak directly to the camera right here and directly to the fans I understand The Angst cuz when your team goes up 3 0 there’s this angst where it’s like I hope we’re not the one like deep down I hope we’re not the one are we already there well yes we were there already we were there before before this game be the one where the team comes back from down three 0 yes yes I mean look I I get it I get it I thought we would at least save that to like game five no no no no no no people were doing that before this game even started where it’s like wow I like I hope we’re not the team and um here’s the thing Kyrie just was not good tonight and Luka wasn’t good tonight they’ve been Dynamic all series long I do not think this Mavericks team is capable of losing four straight games to anybody in the NBA that’s not a slight on the Minnesota Timberwolves I don’t think they’re capable of losing four straight games to a single team in the league regardless of who it is I just don’t think they’re capable of doing it so I still feel very good about the series and yes Kyrie was not good tonight Luca was not good tonight and they owe the team a big game five and guess what I think they’re going to get it like that’s just where I’m at with it imagine being not good in scoring 28 points with 15 rebounds 10 assists in uh finals well Luka LCA was okay Kyrie was not very good tonight Kyrie was not very good but I mean luuka came out and already said already took blame for himself but to me this one for Kyrie to come out and have that kind of a statement to to make that about this game to be the one that was 14-0 in Closeouts before this one and to come out and have the game that he did where it just didn’t look like he was it just didn’t look like he was right or the same kind of Kyrie the Mavs have won this series The games come down to the end they keep it close keep it close keep it close and then they win in crunch time and they just didn’t get enough from Kyrie in crunch time Reggie absolutely I mean you didn’t get enough from Kyrie all the way across and the thing that I’m going to harp on is the four turnovers right like that is the thing that is so uncharacteristic of this game from Kyrie Irving really the team at large and this this is where your stars I’m going to hearken back to the thing that we said this is what Kyrie is there for like you need those that stability right like the stability of having two stars is why Kyrie is here and knew in the playoffs like and this is like kind of one of those General things that we talk about your Superstars are going to be there the others are the ones that you talk about and unlike in some of the other you know Series where maybe one of your Superstars wasn’t playing great you had PJ Washington knocking down shots you had drick Jones Jr you got a little bit of that but not a ton and in this series because of you know the timberwol still POS defensive challenges you needed Kyrie Irving you needed Luka Don to be on their p’s and q’s when they don’t give you 100% of what you need there you open up the door for a Timberwolves team that played close with you all four games thus far to be able to finish out a game on you and that was the tough part of this well you even look at like how Luca shot the ball I mean he just didn’t even shoot the ball well from two like those are the two things that you just really desperately need is Kyrie to hit shots and Luca to hit his close shots because those are the ones he was getting playing against this drop coverage of the Timberwolves over and over again he didn’t hit those Kyrie didn’t get you know didn’t do anything close to what we’re used to Kyrie doing in this series so far and uh and yeah and like you mentioned nobody else really fully came with you like you didn’t get a huge Advantage anywhere else you didn’t get a lively Gafford combined for 35 or you know 30 points you didn’t get a crazy Tim Hardway game like they gotten that the one game the one game against OKC they got the good Tim Hardway game I did find out tonight that there are still Tim Hardaway Jr fans within the Mavericks fan ranks uh so I I did find that out but are they currently hiding from us is that what’s happening okay yeah somebody might be some may be in this very room with us but they didn’t get an advantage anywhere else and for those two stars to not have the games that they’ve had the rest like the last couple of games they didn’t get the same recipe well it was an interesting defensive adjustment by the Timberwolves like they had quotes before the game they weren’t going to let Kyrie and Luca score and we saw uh Anthony Edwards guarding Luca early in this game which is something that I thought would happen earlier in the series where they would go with a more physical Defender and ant on Luca and the length the defender and Jaden McDaniels on Kyrie and we saw that early on but uh I mean look I I want to give the Timberwolf some credit cuz they played well in this game cat hit some big shots down the stretch Anthony make some big plays down the stretch why cuz those two are Allstar two star two Superstar level players and you know the Mavericks just didn’t answer that which they’ve done all series long and it it comes back to this for me which is I do not think this Mavericks team can lose three straight game or four straight game Sorry to anybody in the NBA I’m not just like saying this as a slight to the Timberwolves I’m just saying in general from what I’ve seen from this team over the last four or five months I don’t think the Mavericks can lose four straight games to anybody and I still stand on that and it sucks that they lost this game and yes Luca didn’t do this down the stretch Kyrie didn’t do this down the stretch but guess what they did it in the first three games and that’s why they’re up 3 0 sure and they lose this and here’s the thing if after before the series started if you told him M fan hey after game four you’re up 31 you would say oh my God like you you would think it was a 2-1 Series going into this game and they won it and now we’re going to game five up 3-1 but that’s not the case they had chances in this game they did one minute left Kyrie hits the floater off of the Derrick Jones Jor tap out and it’s a three-point game with a minute left you get that you had the the Kyrie turnover with 30 seconds left that was really brutal you had the Anthony Edwards jumper off of you know the goar moving screen which you know is just going to happen uh and then Gafford had an intentionally foul but that that Kyrie turnover at the end I mean that was the the one that really killed them in the in that last stretch and you you still got an amazing Luca and one three which was which yeah that was crazy missed the free throw but could have could have put it to two at that point with like 13 seconds left but you just didn’t get the final kill shot moments from luuka or Kyrie can I ask you two fine gentlemen a question here because it’s a thought that I’ve had but I’d like to you know employ your brains and your eyeballs in this another game that was close but this felt different in a way and be and this is why I really lean on Luka donic and Kyrie Irving it felt like they did not completely break down the Timberwolves defense in the way that they had done in the first three games and they were able to get enough to keep it close but it did not feel like the Timberwolves were in the same place of you know not having anything defensive L scrambling to find something and just holding on tight enough it felt like they had a lot more Comfort defensively in this game than they had in the first three games that just me trying to explain away a loss or is that something that you it was the change you mentioned that the Timberwolves made yeah the timberwol said before the game we’re not letting those two score as much and I think that was it and PJ ate some clutch threes and and we also saw how many Corner threes did they get in this game a ton yeah the Mavericks got way more Corner threes than they did the entire series 16 Corner threes so they basically that’s where they had the whole series the timber was basically went to all right we’re going to do what the Thunder did in the second round we’re going to sell out on these two stars and come up and try and stop them and help off of these corners and the Mavs got a lot more Corner threes than they got remember at the beginning of the series we were talking about let’s count every single Corner three that they get it was like four corner threes that they got in this one and so uh coming up let’s talk about who else kind of stepped up for the for the Mavs in a way but who else needs to be better let’s talk about how Luca and Kyrie can be better let’s talk about those things coming out where you going to go where you going to go today’s episode is 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was saying before the game and I was talking to it’s very hard to sweep a team like it is incredibly difficult to sweep a team in the playoffs because you know you’re getting the 16 best teams in the NBA playoffs and then you get to this point where it is mathematically the four best teams in the playoffs it’s very difficult to sweep an NBA team man and if the Mavericks came out and swept the Timberwolves tonight it would have been such an impressive feed we’ have been talking about it forever and I know that there’s going to be Mavs fans who are upset about it and whatnot but look they were in this game I don’t think there was anything that happened in this game where I’m I’m leaving it going oh my God if the Mavericks don’t figure this out over the next three games they’re done for I don’t leave that thinking anything so uh yeah there was times in this game where like you said uh goar got his fifth foul there was uh a couple technicals here and there there was a couple scuffles Chris Finch one from the second row sound hilarious and I’m saying if if you follow like John Boy the baseball guy on Twitter there was that Aaron Boone for the Yankees manager who got ejected in the game cuz the man the fan behind him said something if you’re in the second row behind the Minnesota Timol you need to be talking to the refs the whole game and you need to be screaming at him obscenities that you haven’t heard since 1955 all right you need to be screaming everything I don’t like that well how about 1995 better well how about 2005 all right we can work with that okay yeah you got going uh yeah I’m going let you I’m hey I’m going to let you try to come back from that one I got left on my own there but you what I’m saying though right you need be the I’m going be on the right side of the screen and the right side of History right here right right I’m on the wrong side of history but you guys get what I’m saying you need to be screaming some things to the refs and when they look at you you need to point at Chris Finch you need to say that was him ref that was terrible what he said I have a little child next to me okay so bring your little child next to the game and sit right behind Chris Finch next game hit me up ,000 bias slightly on Twitter I will try to compensate your tickets if you have a little child though if you don’t have a little child do not hit me up the M that is a wild thing to say if he was out of context I just got to let you well I just went I mean for the last three minutes got I mean for last three minutes knows what I said okay the game four the game three win we got so many compliments about how good our postgame show was and now they lose and this is what we turn into I think this is the best episode we’ve ever had on this channel this might win you a niy the sports emmies were like you know what we were going to open a lane for podcasters the Dallas were like you know what never mind we listen to the game for no that’s not what they’re going to say they’re going to say this was the one and you’re going to be on the stage a year from now this is the one we submit the one we submit to the academy uh great games from Anthony Edwards I thought 20 points 10 boards nine assists for him he you know had six turnovers he still needs to figure out that passing that’s the next step for him but Anthony Edwards I mean he hit a ton of mid shots and felt like and you you could see the elevation from him like this this was the thing the series I think we were Bo it down to the Mavericks have two stars that are experienced that have seen a lot of these things that know how to finish out games and the Timberwolves did not Anthony Edwards you can tell has started to get a little bit of more of an understanding that crosscourt skip pass yeah you saw him be able to complete that and he threw that into the third row a few times in games one and two and so I think that ended up being a little bit of a difference at the end and I think what that tells the Mavericks is you’re not going to be able to just get it close and then absolutely railroad this team at the end of the game you’re going to need to do a little bit more of your work ahead of time uh going forward in this series and they finally got a Carl Anthony towns good shooting game I mean I was enjoying the non- good cat shooting games for all the things he said about Dirk the ridiculous terrible awful really wrong things he said uh but 25 points for him nine of 13 from the field he’s almost 70% hit four of his five threes like he finally the 1500 shots that he’s been taking a game finally paid off for him no no cat hit his shots in this game and and that’s why I said earlier it’s it’s so difficult to sweep a team it’s difficult to sweep a very good team this Timol team is very good they’re fantastic basketball team man and and like if the mavick swept this team it really would have been such an accomplishment for this team and Cat hit his shots Anthony Edwards made the plays those skip passes I I was telling you the game I was like that’s a crazy pass by an even some of the some of the passes that necessarily didn’t even lead to assists for Anthony Edwards he was making those reads and making those skip passes but you know uh credit to cat credit to ant they had Star level games and you know you know that’s what you’re going to get at this level in the postseason so at some point you were going to get from those two guys it would have been genuinely like a historical level thing if you didn’t get a game where those two did something to you the MAV stars on the other end though is there anything that you saw that could get Kyrie going more or is it literally just because they don’t really call plays for him that often is it literally just he’s got to be better or is it is there something else they can do in another game to get Kyrie the balore me’s maybe he’s wearing down like is is there any of that that you guys are feeling they could probably empty out the side a little a little bit more for him like I mean that’s something where you know he has the speed to get by a lot of these guys and even though you know they’re putting longer guys on him he can still get that half step we saw with Jaden Hardy I mean I like calling Jaden Hardy a Kyrie light and we saw him get to the rack with JY would love that you just said that about he’d be very excited to hear that you just said that but I mean it’s what I see and I imagine that you guys see it too like he has those similarities and you can see him do those things so there’s no reason why Kyrie couldn’t do that I think that maybe if you if you open up a little bit more space for him cuz again you can see teams loading you can teams you can see the Timberwolves loading up on him in a way if you make that harder if you make that next man over just a little bit further you give him an opportunity to really attack a little bit better and I think that maybe if you can get him going in that way it can uh really you know lead to better things I think this is a game where we’ll talk about how they missed him a little bit more but this is a game where you missed Derrick Lively in the short role absolutely you miss him like the the extra attentions going on Kyrie and on Luca too you miss that extra connector that guy that can come up and set a screen that that Kyrie can pass to and then once you do that Kyrie was getting open like running around after that and just getting lost and and finding ways to to get in seams and stuff like that so you missed der livley in that way on offense and I think that affected Kyrie in some way slightly yeah I mean I I thought Kyrie ultimately still got the looks that you would like from Kyrie he just missed him and you know over the course of a four game series that’s going to happen at some point but yes I ultimately do agree that like having Lively as that screener who can do stuff in the short rle just opens up so many things for you and Max Max I don’t even know how many minutes Maxi played uh but you know Maxi just came back and 13 and A2 minutes 13 and A2 minutes for Maxi and you know Lively wasn’t here and I don’t know does if if Lively is here playing this game does that change everything for them I’m not sure I don’t know it changes some things for sure it was a fiveo or was a three-point game with a minute left is it enough to make that much of a difference I think it probably’s one of the league leaders and plus minus in this postseason so you could definitely make that argument but um you know I thought Kyrie ultimately got a lot of look that you feel very comfortable with Kyrie getting you just didn’t hit him and uh I think going into game five you I don’t know how much you Chang they did we talked about it earlier in the in in the episode like they changed some things where they had Jay mcdel and Kyrie early on and I thought going into the series I thought that was an interesting thing where everyone said Jen mcdel be on Kyrie and I thought well are we going to get to a point where Luca doesn’t care about jadeen mcdel size and then you say what if we put Jamie danels on Kyrie and just kind of neutralize him with his size we found that out by game one yes we did find that out we found that out by game one may I there’s some times where I’m I’m up here in the in the you know the coach’s box and I’m like I think I should be on the court cuz there was a time where I was like Lively you’re about or uh Gaff you’re about to get a 3 seconds you saw that and he got a three seconds folks there’s there’s a lot of talk around going around town that I should be on the court back of the Ben front of the bench front oh okay front that’s I’ll take back of the bench though that’s okay I say it may not it may not be a sports Emmy level episode but you’re not going to uh I’m submitting this you’re not gonna beat the drug addict accusations after this episod oh I want you to know I’m submitting this to the sports H somebody please hit me up with a submission link coming up let’s talk about how the Mavericks missed Derek Liv let’s talk about what Maxi brought to this and then I do want to have some fun let’s talk about Jaden Hardy because he did have another moment after I talked about him yesterday so let’s talk about that and more coming up oh thanks everybody for hanging out with those on lockdown Maps being part of the show part of the raccoon Squad listening every listening every day we’ve got a daily show that covers the Dallas Mavericks here uh I do the one more thing with the bonus episodes if you want to get more content subscribe to the subtext click the link in the description text the number text on the screen right there text that number and uh and more guys uh and uh Derek Lively was missing in this game we talked about how they kind of missed him on offense a little bit defensively yes I thought that they really missed him too yeah a ton a ton I mean that that’s a back stop that they need and you could see the ways in which um you know Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony towns attacked down hill in a way where they were clearly very much more comfortable whether even with Gafford on the floor and I understand like Gafford got a few blocks in this and he showed that he’s still that Rim presence but once Dwight poet Hit the Floor even Maxi kba they knew that get downhill and the middle of the p and that I think that’s what car Anthony towns going he was able to playin get downhill and then that opened up the three-point shot where he got comfortable so that’s a whole Avenue of scoring that the Minnesota Timberwolves had that I don’t think that they have if Lively’s playing it’s he’s a two Lively has become a two-level scorer in this too or twole Defender in this too where he can he defends the rim but then also switching out he was a guy that had been very good switching out on different guys too so they gave him like almost two different levels then oh all of a sudden it’s open up in two different ways for the the Timberwolves and they just made the shots that they end up making uh but man they I thought they missed Lively a lot defensively in both ways look you don’t you’re not one of the league leaders or playoff leaders in plus minus at this stage accidentally so yes Lively’s presence just defensively as somebody who could be out in space and you feel comfortable with him is very is very valuable and yeah that I think that’s a great point where cat felt a little bit more comfortable attacking the paint and getting going and you know the thing still is cat had five fouls yep cat was still very volatile so I think if you’re the Mavericks you go in the locker room and you say hey we forced cat to beat us and you know what he had five fouls and he made some plays and made some shots down the stret and he and he did it where did what what moment did he have those two threes in a row yeah he he hit some huge shots like I I want to give cat his props he hit some massive shots down the stretch of this game for the Minnesota Timberwolves and it led them to a win so five minutes left the maps had to call timeout cuz the Timberwolves took a five-point lead cuz cat had hit two in a row the Mavs had the lead before that he hits those two threes it’s a completely different game BJ Washington or or Kyrie or whoever they miss you Miss a couple shots Luca you miss a couple shots that’s that can literally be the game it’s a little run like that that’s what the Timberwolves have been saying every post game right where it’s like our guys missed shots and their guys made shots that’s exactly what happened in this game so yes Lively’s absence was definitely felt for sure but at the end I think if you’re the Mavericks you’re leaving this saying hey guys play our game game five and we expect to win like we do we expect to win the game what did you see from Maxi coming back this is the first time we’ve seen him since the Clippers series which is a month ago so long ago you see Maxi coming back um I mean for one I thought there was the hesitation that we’ve seen from Maxi to look to score even if you don’t ultimately pull I think that that was still there and you needed more from him in that situation you needed him to at least look to score so that changed the way that the defense played him they were able to play off him and continue to look at him as if he was just any other big on the perimeter and when you have Maxi on the floor that five out possibility is part of what he brings and so I think that he’ll get back into the flow of things but I he missed that he absolutely missed that in this game it was just such a different look when you have Maxi there as a switching Defender instead of the big seven-footer under the rim like just such a just such a completely different look that the Mavs really hadn’t gone to at all they hadn’t gone to PJ Washington the five all but like two minutes of this whole series so far uh and I thought Maxi did okay you said you talk about the hesitation he did fine but it’s just a different look that I don’t think would work well against this Timberwolves team necessarily I don’t think we really saw Maxi and Gafford together and that’s a lineup that I I am kind of interested in but with with Lively out you have to like spread out The Gafford and Maxi minutes enough to cover to cover enough ground I mean I I agree with you I I don’t know how much you can take away from this game from the maxim minutes because like you said there’s no Lively so you know you have to spread the Maxi minutes maybe in places that you wouldn’t necessarily think originally because instead of pairing him with Gafford or pairing him with Lively now that Lively’s out you have to play him like by himself as a five which yes and this Timberwolf series doesn’t seem NE necessarily ideal but I agree with Reggie 100% where it’s like there was multiple times where he caught the ball in the wing where I thought he had the shot yes and he was just a little hesitant and I don’t know how much of that is his shoulders bothering him versus this is my first game back in a month and it’s game four of the Western Conference Finals with a chance to go to the NBA finals and I don’t want to shoot this shot so we’ll see so I I expect the game five Maxi to feel much more comfortable especially if lely’s back and we get different lineups where it is Maxi alongside Gafford Al Lively and he’s the four and that changes every every that changes the entire Dynamic with maxi on the floor he had some massive plays in this one he took the offensive foul against cat that was one of his fouls uh seven minutes left he drove and then Derrick Jones Jr swung the ball over PJ Washington for that huge three that tied the game at that point like he did have some some really big plays in this one but Jaden Hardy also had some big plays in this one I thought he was absolutely massive so we fine uh Jaden Hardy had some a some awesome minutes in this game too 13 points for him and just he came in looking like he had so much confidence three threes for him Reggie what you see from from uh the Kyrie light Jaden Hardy as he as he called him he’s instant offense now right like he he this is one of the biggest moments that you can play basketball in and they’ve dropped him in and feel he’s felt comfortable he’s looked comfortable and of course playing off of the Stars helps but you mentioned knocking down shots he gives you that driving by dudes who are very good Defenders and have that lateral quickness he’s done that and finished at The Rim against really tall Defenders he looks like he’s ready for prime time in in so much as being a f in a playoff level team like that matters a good amount especially because the development of Jon Hardy looked like it might not be getting there at the start of the Season he’s getting there at the end of the season yeah I agree with everything you said the decision- making is the key factor and that’s what we thought in the summer league and that’s what we thought all season long where the points with jayen Hardy will come and go but it is the decisionmaking as a playmaker that’s going to decide who he is as an NBA player and that’s the stuff in this postseason where it’s like whoa this was not here all season long and now it’s here it literally was not here at any point during the regular season and now we’re seeing it at the most like regie said the most pivotal time of the playoffs so it’s great to see for jayen to see him and Lively both Step Up in huge ways in this postseason is so great for the maps future like to see those guys develop a little bit more like what could they bring especially when a team that’s going to be up against the second apron and up against the cap and all the salary cap and all that kind of stuff to have young guys like that pretty cost controlled to show up in really big ways it’s so big for this team going forward majorly I mean and that’s that’s why the Mavericks are still going to win the series they’re not like we said at the beginning of the episode they’re not losing four straight games like I just do not think this team is capable of losing four straight games to anybody it’s not a knock on the Timberwolves I just don’t think that they’re capable of losing in four straight games to a single team um but they’re just built for the future like they they they are this isn’t a team PJ 25 26 like a lot of national heads like Bill Simmons rousel this Mavericks team sold their future like they didn’t sell their future though they didn’t like they traded for 25-year-old PJ Washington they signed 25 26y Old d uh Derek Jones Jr they traded for 25-year-old Daniel Gafford like everything that they’ve done is built to help them now but also in the future and man they’re still a game away from the Wester from the NBA finals and I and they’re going to get there like they’re going to get there they’ve got what three more chances like is my math right on that one that is correct like I was saying at the beginning when you’re when you’re a fan of a team up three there’s always that thought in the back of your head it’s like oh man no one’s ever could go wrong could go wrong and I mean we’re we’re Dallas sports fans so obviously that thought is at the very Forefront of our minds because we’ve been here through a lot but man this team’s not going to do it I’m just here to tell you right now this was nothing happened in this game where you leave it like oh my God if they don’t fix this they’re in a lot of trouble like nothing happened like that ant and Cat made plays kudos to them they did are you guys confident slightly Reggie yeah I’m fairly confident man this again three put you in a place where you deserve to have that confidence and I mean Lively is not going to be gone forever and I mean even if even if you want to go that far we’ve seen this team with Derek Lively and the way with the optionality that they have with Lively and Gafford they should be able to win this series whether it’s in five or in seven they’ll move along yeah I agree and even if if Gaff or Lively misses the rest of the series statistically this team without Lively will win one of the next four like that’s just statistically how it works yeah it’s like now we just need a puncher’s chance right just a puncher chance to win a game CU all you got to do is win one more and go to the go to the NBA finals face the Boston Celtics and yeah here we are I’m I’m confident they will too it’s never happened before because it’s really hard just like you said it’s really hard to sweep somebody it’s really hard to come back it’s hard to beat an NBA team four straight times man think it’s so hard just as hard as it was for the Mavs to sweep the Timberwolves in this the Timberwolves now have to sweep the Mavs they have to go four in a literally four in a row to win and so still confident still feeling like the Mavs had chances if the shots fall a little bit differently couple of those plays Kyrie turnover Kyrie you know couple of Mis shots here Luke a couple of Miss shots there different things like that maybe one of the timber wolves guys fouls out a little earlier maybe Scott Foster gets a little bit more full of himself come on Scott couldn’t couldn’t couldn’t have helped one out series extender that’s what they call him the extender uh yeah he I didn’t think the refs were a problem tonight by the way no I didn’t I didn’t think so either uh it’s not what it’s not what it sounded like when you were cheering during the game oh well you got to understand I’m up here I’m like R but then am I wrong I turn around and say that was the right call he did but it was very quiet I don’t think Scott going to I do all time you got to let the rest know you yell at them and then you turn like that was a good call actually but you just have to let him know absolutely there you go guys thanks for hanging out with us on lockdown Mavs we’ll be back with more episodes more uh stuff the Mavs continue to play they’re playing more more games we got a game five in in Minnesota so we’ll cover that guys thanks much for listening to locked on Mavs Mavs and five baby Ms and five this series is over over

The Dallas Mavericks lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 4 when Luka Doncic says he takes responsibility and Kyrie Irving’s comments before the game came back to bite the Mavs.

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