Luka Doncic Says His Turnovers & Free Throws Cost Mavs Game 2 vs. Celtics | Full Press Conference

Luka Doncic Says His Turnovers & Free Throws Cost Mavs Game 2 vs. Celtics | Full Press Conference

with your chest uh you know was there any question in your mind about being able to go tonight and you know how are you feeling physically throughout this game you know especially going in the fourth quarter I mean yeah actually was uh but you know uh I always want to play uh so we did all day we did a lot of things to get ready for the game how are you feeling physically tonight uh obviously a lot of minutes you know going in the fourth quarter especially good good I I was okay second row luuka it looked like you had a uh an interaction with this Celtics owner there was did he do something or say something that uh that you thought was over the line uh I’m sorry I don’t know who’s the Celtics owner was there somebody in the uh in the first row that you were having an exchange with that was the Celtics owner no Mike Lo Mike it’s the Dallas Morning News um in the game where the Celtics um shot 26% from three um Jason Tatum didn’t have a necessarily good offensive outing does it feel like a missed opportunity that you guys weren’t able to capitalize in a game like this every game we lose it’s a Miss opportunity for us go here we’ll go here on the first row pink shirt Mike Leslie WFA look at later in the game it seemed like you guys started to be able to get more people involved but for a while there first and second quarter even into the third it seemed like it was heavily you what did finally start to work and how can you guys get more people involved offensively earlier on in the game so you said in the third there was less people involved I’m saying in the first half there were it was mostly you and then you guys eventually started to get more people involved what eventually worked yeah I mean uh obviously didn’t work cuzz we lost uh but you know at the end of the day we got to make some more shots you know I think my turnovers and my Miss FR thrs classes a game uh so I got to do way better in those two categories uh but at the end of the day we got to make shots to win them to win the game to the left t uh T is ear with clutch points Luka Celtics are already a deep team and you guys have shown a lot of your depth but when the shot making is not going down it’s a bit more apparent I guess how do you guys counteract their depth um just given that you know Tatum and brown can have an off night and Drew can kind of go off yeah I mean they’re they’re that’s with they’re number one team in the NBA with number one record uh they have a lot of great players uh basically anybody can get off uh so honestly I think we didn’t do a bad job defending today uh we took away some threes we contested more threes uh but like I said you know I had too many turnovers and and we missed a lot of free throws so I think that cost us a game third row on the right [Music] left third row on right Luca atom.com how tough has their defense been uh physically and and are they doing something uh unusual or different for you or you guys having uh breakdowns offensively I mean they’re physical yeah uh but you know they trying to guard one-onone uh I think today they’re trying to help Mor I was able to get some some teammates open uh but they’re physical they’re very physical uh you know uh they let them be physical uh so they’re pretty pretty pretty uh amazing at defense Brad Brad towns in Dallas Morning News do you remember how exactly did the injury occur Jason wasn’t sure if you took a charge or were you were diving for a loose ball uh I think it was a charge we don’t really know cuz I didn’t feel it till the next day uh so I was really surprised uh so we think it was the charge and then secondly as the series goes back to Dallas for games three and four what do you think most of all that you guys need to do to to turn the series around we got to make shots we got to make free throws and less turnovers those three things I think are the key for a win to win last row on the right uh Richard Moen USA Today Boston hasn’t lost a game on the road yet this postseason what specifically can you do at home to make things a little bit more difficult for them is there anything specific at home that you guys can do um score more points I at the end of the day basketball away at home we just got to play better basketball to win fifth row on the left [Music] okay Front Road here in the center okay Bob hi looka uh um do you guys take something away from staying around because they seem be to be putting so much pressure to keep trying to pull away do you guys take soless to that you were able to stay in the game for as long you know to right to the end U sorry I don’t understand you well I mean they they they seem to be uh ready to pull away in several different place points in the fourth quarter do you guys take uh something away from it by being able to stay in the game right to the last minute uh I [Music] guess yeah I don’t really know how to respond but yes I’m sorry okay thanks luga

Luka Doncic’s full postgame press conference after the Mavericks loss to the Celtics in Game 2 of the 2024 NBA Finals.

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