ESPN’s Tim Cowlishaw on Mavs’ Next Steps after Losing NBA Finals vs Celtics | The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN’s Tim Cowlishaw on Mavs’ Next Steps after Losing NBA Finals vs Celtics | The Rich Eisen Show

what are your two cents on the subject matter of Luca Tim well my first two cents are on Jason Tatum why hasn’t it sunk in it sunk into the rest of us the Celtics were gonna win a long time ago at the very least after game two but it was kind of funny that that his response was still that way a half hour um after the game um you know Luca three really good games one horrible game some questionable defense at times questionable rating very questionable ref baiting in game three that that was really the only issue I ever had was him getting fouled out of a game he had no business fouling out in and that was the key game if they that’s a competitive game three and if they win that game then it’s it’s a very different series because the team that be Dallas in game one with porzingis never came back porzingis was never going to get to that level again we saw last night he was mostly a liability so I thought that was a missed opportunity for Luca other than that he I I think he is playing HT and he played very well I had a lot more issues with Kyrie sounding as if he knew exactly how to deal with the Boston crowd in his interviews and then having three miserable shooting games in the TD Garden so um let’s follow up on that then um so you you you feel that Kyrie’s fingerprints are on this series loss more than Lucas Tim well in know in a way now I mean I don’t think I think most of the fingerprints belong to the Boston Celtics uh as you just said they won 64 games and while we don’t look at them you know we don’t look at them as that bird Parish mcale team but teams aren’t built like that they don’t play like that they don’t have two SF Footers playing you know in the low post anymore if you look at the way the Warriors looked when they were great and winning four titles this Celtics team to me looks a lot like that they play great defense on the perimeter and they shoot threes and that’s the modern the modern game as far as the Mavericks could have been a little more competitive yeah I would look at Kyrie’s three games in Boston um 18 for 53 I believe did make a three at all until last night in Boston and and just you know really played much different from that at home so clearly the crowd did get to him and that bothered him um yeah I would say he he was farther from his Peak than than Luca was in this series well in terms of Luca Tim keso here on the Rich Eisen show uh the criticism of Luca um the significant I saw Al also to be very honest with well um thought out and and delivered comments by you know our colleague Brian wior yours at ESPN right uh to Scott vanpelt after the game three loss and being you know um being castigated by by wi hor uh I’ll ask you what your thoughts on that are well I didn’t I didn’t think Brian was wrong and he was mostly talking about the fouling out and the kind of petulant attitude that that hits Luca every now and then and it hits him especially in home games I you don’t see it as much on the road if you look at his road playoff performances uh they were mostly pretty great at home and and I’ve thought this for years and I’ve written this that you know Mark Cuban standing five feet from the bench screaming at the refs for two hours I think it gets in a lot of people’s heads and it gets in Luca’s head and he just joins that chorus and and for whatever reason in game three he couldn’t get out you know everybody knows you’re not getting the foul calls going to the basket in the playoffs that you’re going to give the regular season they don’t want these games to be you know 30 free throws per team so it’s very hard to get those foul calls Luca still gets more than most but when he doesn’t get them when he didn’t get them in that game he got very frustrated and yeah he fouled his way out with four minutes to go in a very winnable game that’s a huge misstep on his part I think he learned from that I think I think he will learn from that in the in the future I think he mostly does all he can for this team to win but they also have a they also have a thing he plays slow Kyrie plays fast this team has to figure out what it wants to be Jason G talked a lot about we slow down too much and they slow down when Luca has the ball so they’ve they’ve got some things to iron out for a team that mostly had a you know a great playoff run and won three Road three series they started on the road got to a finals nobody really thought they would get to so it ends badly um but no what Brian said about about Luca for that night I think was entirely correct so then who who’s the folk who’s the individual or individuals um in that locker room coaching staff front office who might be able to reach Luca to deliver some sort of a message postseason to figure out how to maybe come back next year yeah I can just tell you I know Luca likes Jason kid and Kyrie likes Jason kid and I think I think he talks to them individually a little differently than he talks to uh the public and in the media when when kid says something to us it’s pretty carefully worded but if you if you go back and look at what he said throughout this playoffs Luca has to know he’s going to be a Target he has to play harder at the defensive end and not expect to carry the offense entirely that’s what he said after game three before game five he said we can’t we can’t get into those periods where we play Slow we gotta play with pace and that’s directed at Luca so I mean I think I think Luca gets all that um I think he feels that sometimes he’s the only one targeting because there isn’t a lot of criticism of anybody else except a little bit of Kyrie now for his play in this series but I think he gets it and uh you know most of the time he doesn’t act the way he did in game three he just he can’t do it in a big playoff game again it’s just it’s nonsense to foul out that way well uh I guess looking back Michael Finley should have let him have the beer right Tim think about it yeah maybe that would have maybe that would 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ESPN’s ‘Around the Horn’ Panelist/The Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw tells Rich Eisen what Luka Doncic and the Mavericks must do to get over the hump and win an NBA championship.

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