Mavericks vs Spurs Recap: Luka Doncic triple double powers Dallas past San Antonio
A [Applause] Hello hello welcome to pod Maverick my name is Kirk Henderson I am joined not by Josh Bo but by Mavs Moneyball contributor uh new guy this year Matthew Martinez Matt how are you tonight hey doing great great man how are you I’m all right and we’re we’re joining you
Here live it’s about he it’s right 10 o’clock an even time for once uh the Dallas Mavericks just detonated on the San Antonio Spurs 144 to 119 and that 25o margin Victor really really doesn’t do justice to how badly they beat the crap out of the Spurs um I missed the
First half of the game because I was at zoo lights I didn’t tell Josh that I was going to zoo lights and then while at the G while in the zoo Josh told me had the opportunity to go see Godzilla minus one and I would just basically was like
Yes absolutely go do that thing so Matthew uh is stepping up here to to help us uh because he watched more of the game than I did even though I did catch most of the second half Are you seriously just going to sit here and
Baring me I know I wasn’t here for a while making making making a full appearance on the Pod right yeah Huck Huck normally where is he let’s see if we can hey but there he is there’s Huck live live reaction um it you know
Watching the I I came down or I was like doing kid bedtime stuff and I saw the score was 72 to 66 and I’m sitting here thinking oh man Wy must be having a hell of a game and then I so what the hell happened tell me what happened in the
First half on yeah uh I mean well first of all what must it be like right now to be the ball boy whose foot wimy landed on in pregame shoot around I mean Chris Christmas is canceled right I just I don’t you know they put it up on ESPN
That like oh he stepped on the ball boy’s foot and it’s like how about how about just be honest how about tell us you didn’t want him to play and at this point you’re kind of looking for reasons for him to not play right he only played
22 minutes in their last one uh and they said something about minutes restrictions going into this one so yeah it looked like any little bad bad gust of wind was gonna was gonna take him out I I mean not to talk on the Spurs that absolutely to talk trash on
The Spurs I hate the Spurs um they have horrendous Vibes if you’ve watched any of their games um to the point to where I I am just truly baffled at some of the decisions that that Wendy’s teammates make with regards to him um they don’t pass him the ball sometimes and then
There’s just like I mean what did they won four games I mean when we played them on opening night they looked pretty good they really did they look functional and I thought some things and so it’s just it feels like they’re just trying to slog through this season get
Another Lottery Pick and figure out how to get out of it but over the course of it you learn bad habits I mean like there’re what do they have like soan is awful watching that guy play basketball makes me angry he’s like if Grant Williams was our second best player and
Got all this freedom to do garbage it’s he’s like if Grant Williams was a ball handler yeah yeah um yeah yeah he’s he’s not the best Vibe player uh I do like Devin vasel on their team he did not have a great night tonight but um I guess if we’re talking
About the first half you know uh I I guess the um the Spurs go on a little run in the first quarter I I guess no no no it it was 1916 Spurs in the first quarter uh and then it’s you know we’re halfway we’re halfway through the
Quarter and and Dallas goes on goes on a 2410 run to uh uh to end the quarter right well it’s and now we’re in the second quarter and um you know the Spurs the Spurs get on a little run of their own they outscore the Mavs uh it was it
Was a three minute stretch early in the second quarter they outscore the Mavs 21 to 12 uh you know to make it close again and then it’s close in the uh close all the way to halftime uh and and then you know if basetball is a game of runs the lethal
Run was was the Mavs in the third quarter obviously um Mavs got another they did they did Notch uh another uh another 40 Point 40 Point quarter in the first those are always fun to see and and uh I’m kind of all over the place right now but I’m gonna lock I’m gonna
Lock in on the Mavs 24-10 run to end the first quarter okay um so the the Run starts with two uh Derrick Jones Jr’s three-pointers uh and and and I see this uh this tweet uh kind of at the same time as he hits these two three-pointers
That uh he now has 43 three-pointers at that point uh in the game on the season and that tied his uh career high in a season and and you you know and and which brings which brings to mind uh to me you know Luca magic is not ridiculous
Highlight plays that right there my friend is Luca magic it’s raising a guys it’s raising a guy’s floor Beyond a I mean I I want to say Derrick Jones Jr has played like 27 games maybe 28 he missed one for sure he might have missed
More than that so to like get to that point I in less in basically a third of the season is laugh out loud funny I just I don’t know what don’t know what to do with that one um so somebody in the uh from Twitter came in here and
Said did I just hear you say that Sohan sucks for um for clarification soan sucks all right uh just wanted to get that out uh just so we’re clear um anyway and and so so keep going with with what Happ so that so they closed the quarter well you’re feeling good
About the fact they’re up they’re up 11 points they look real what the hell happened in the second uh then well you know the the Spurs actually despite not shooting the three-pointer well this year in general they started nine for 19 from three tonight and then they remembered oh yeah
We’re the Spurs and then they went two for 12 from be on the arc after the 9 for9 start so you know they remembered that we don’t shoot the ball well uh you know Luca seemed to this this is a nightly occurrence and and what I’m really proud of Mavs fans
About is is we as a group we don’t seem to be taking what Luca is doing on a nightly basis for granted there seems to be a whole heck of a lot of people uh you know if you’re if you’re on Twitter or or whatever people’s Jaws are on the floor every
Game and that’s the way it should be you know um he he went into god mode you know he gets to he gets to 39 points before Kirk even gets home from Zoo Lights um you know I was home he he was so he had 25 at the half as I understand
It um and dur and and that 25 at the half was that did he pass Jason ter for six on the alltime scoring in that was that in the first half I believe it was in the first half yeah yeah yeah I don’t remember exactly when the moment that’s
Right because I I came back to like seven slack messages should I post the thing about him P passing Jason Terry um to to my fellow editors who don’t listen to this yes post news I’m not going to be mad at you um so that was it was
Interesting they they posted a stat you know Luca is fun to talk about so let’s talk about Luca because I think these these two games are just a fun reminder of why he’s in the MVP conversation I said these two games because he didn’t play against the Rockets and the
Mavericks had a barf offense so bad that I opted out of podcasting with Josh Bo I was like I cannot talk about this game I hate this hate this game so much and then he comes back tonight has 39 points uh let’s here what other statistics did he have sitting sitting against Houston
Was as good of an argument for Luca MVP as 39 points in three quarters against San Antonio a plus 37 in 32 minutes is laugh out loud hilarious 12 Bo 12 boards 10 assists he probably could have had a few more had some things gone his way I
Mean Luka just controls the game from start to finish it was it was really something I really wish they would have gotten to see him play against wemy though just because watching Luca play against really good defensive bigs is a reminder of of just how good Luca can be
But also it’s just it’s fun to watch Bigs like SW not like SWAT him it’s not like I want like Luca to get swatted but every now and again when he gets uh when when he gets his his stuff thrown back at him it like works as a challenge in
His favor so it’s it’s pretty neat um you know passing Jason Terry for sixth all time in uh in in um scoring for the franchise is pretty ridiculous uh Jason Terry obviously played for the matters for a number of years you know we’re talking about Luca in his six season
Know he’s already passed Dirk in some things that took Dirk a whole career to do um I’m not sure if you caught that 30o triple double stat that the that the ballet Sports um broadcast showed so since 2018 so Luca’s rookie year Luca has something like 36 for 30 point
Triple doubles and joic has 10 fewer Giannis only has 13 so it the scoring element of what he brings to the Mavericks is needed in a way that I don’t know is really properly contextualized compared to some of his peers because you you see it then like the Rockets game last night Dallas
Couldn’t score they just can’t score and and you know obviously Dante has has been a revelation with these Mavericks and he didn’t play last night either but it was just it’s it’s wild watching Luca and the lucettes which was what a lot of these games have been I’m sorry if
That’s disrespectful to other guys but when Kyrie Irving and Derrick Lively are out that’s kind of what it is um and so it’s it’s been really fun to see him come through uh you know a game like tonight where during that third quarter which I I caught most of he’s just he’s
Just other worldly at times and and Josh and I have been trying to talk about him more because we realiz realized we had sort of been downplaying just how ridiculous he is because you run out of things to say I think is part of it
That’s okay but I just I don’t know the this season I you know I it feels early I think Joel embiid might have sort of wrapped up the MVP at this point if he keeps playing like this but Luca’s gonna be Luca’s gonna be like the guy up there
Hanging with him over the long enough over a long enough timeline I really I really believe that yeah it was uh something somebody had put in our our Slack a few days ago that was oh yeah the ESP and straw pole for MVP at the whatever it was it was earlier this week
Right and of course of course embiid was the leader in the clubhouse I was surprised that uh Luca in their little straw pole whatever their uh methods were uh was fifth um it’s so narrative driven and they even talk about that on the hoop hoop Collective podcast because
At this point last season embiid didn’t have any votes because he just hadn’t played enough um I think the Luca will will resolve itself over time particularly if Kyrie has to miss more time which I think he will I I think I hope and think Kyrie comes back on
Christmas just because the Mavericks need him but I I think that you know if I don’t I want Luca to win MVP just for the sake of sort of silencing the people who can’t stand him but if he doesn’t ever win one but the Mavericks win a championship that’s going to be what’s
Important to me it’s a it’s a silly I don’t know not silly I mean I make the point and I will repeat it until the day that Luca retires but right now in his sixth year Luca could be Thanos snapped out of existence and he would go into
The Nay Smith Basketball Hall of Fame he has that kind of resume and anybody that argues anybody like and I get people that argue with me because a lot of people are idiots and forget that we’re not just talking about NBA stuff we’re talking about his International career
Too but he’s also made four straight yeah four straight all-nba first teams and he’s cruising towards a fifth at this point it’s it’s Preposterous he’s just that good at basketball um and with 11 more points he’ll be officially on the list having 10,000 career points he will be officially at third in NBA
History in points per game I mean that’s per game so it’s not like as prestigious as the points title but getting to 10,000 points is important because that’s that’s another that’s another arrow in your quiver for that argument I didn’t know that that’s really interesting and yeah again I was at zoo
Lights tonight so I missed some things um okay you made me think of one thing that I just want to ask you about um uh because you’re looking at injury reports before the game and and uh I believe that Lively and um Kyrie were were moved from uh definitely out to questionable
Before this game oh really okay do you do you think that bodess well for Christmas Yes um I believe that the NBA executive office asks teams to make sure that they play in these Marquee games if at all possible uh and so it’s like you know why Luca sat out against the Rockets
Let’s make sure that our guy doesn’t die you know because he was Luca was uh up until uh tonight Luca was second he’s averaging the second most minutes per game I think in the NBA which is nuts Luka LCA freaking donic um that’s pretty amazing okay yeah um before we pivot to
Kind of the other stuff the other guys because there’s some other you know I think pretty fun elements to this game and then a stretch in the fourth quarter which had Jason kid like lose his mind I was cackling I need to uh I need to do
My nightly shill uh which would be if you have any opportunity to head down and hit the like on the stream I would appreciate it uh Josh and I have had a a interesting year interesting kind of year and a half with this show where we’ve had grown and had setbacks we’ve
Had to move um networks none of that is anybody’s concern but we have a lot of loyalist listeners and you know being able to spread this show to more people who might be interested I you know liking helps because it puts it on people’s radar uh while you’re there if
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Posted live um I would appreciate it there’s one guy who uh always posts after every game about how hand we are um big shout out to that guy I keep telling him I have a face I keep telling him I have a face for radio but he’s not
He’s not interested in that um and so I I will get back to doing more uh fan fan participation shows because I mean again you know me and Matt and you know to a lesser extent Josh Josh is a I don’t know you’re an actual journalist you
Worked at the the fort worst Star Telegram with Josh way back I’m a recovering journalist yeah but but like you know we you’re a we’re fans we love the we like the Mavericks I think it’s safe to say that so when I say a fan participation show I mean more than just
My Mavs Moneyball staff we host those after a fair number of games I’m not going to do one tonight because I’m not sure there’s what’s goingon to say but after the Christmas game here on Monday I will definitely host one uh even if it goes into the we hours in the morning so
I want you to subscribe and and and join those shows and and I really appreciate everybody’s support this year okay so what else is kind of uh worth worth talking about in this game what is is was interesting to you that you think might be um kind go ahead
Dante exom hit his first seven shots from the field that was U just lovely um you know Dante XOM man uh you know if you want to if you want to drive the narrative that uh that Nico Harrison is is a genius than D than exom is is your best argument man
Um uh he has been he has it was such an afterthought when he was added to this roster and and look at these last uh these last few games what was it it was something that Bal put up on the screen some a stat um uh let’s see it was since December
8th uh Dante exom leads all guards in field goal percentage in the NBA at 62% that’s wild he finished eight of 10 tonight he hit his first seven and then kid had to put him back in the game because the um trying to think someone someone in the chat or wasn’t in the
Chat it might have been Mavs Moneyball contributor SJ saying the G Leaguers which just killed me the the there was a point in the fourth quarter the Mavericks got up I need to go look at what the score was it was something like 133 or something and then the it was it
Was one the Mavericks got up to 13 four points and clear and and kid basically clears the benches and this is at no it’s 133 uh at the see here they scored those points Jaden Hardy makes 25 foot three-pointer at the 8/19 Mark between the 819 Mark and
The just scrolling down the game log between the 819 Mark and 326 the Mavericks scored one point and that’s with all the you know essentially the scrubs just to be quite cand yeah and kid called a timeout and he never really you know like we we mess with I
Don’t know we don’t mess with kid we accuse kid of not coaching a lot and um he coached he got really pissed like very pissed and I I just want to say if if Jason kid if you’re listening to this during uh the times when you troll Mavs
Media I just want you to know that very pissed off Jason kid is my jam I think it’s hilarious again guys sorry for the dog barking he gives no shits I’m on a podcast yeah yeah okay so so so he had his his his coaching moment what what do
You think what do you think from a coaching perspective of uh your second round draft pick that everybody’s very curious about very high not not not second round uh omx yeah omx was late first rounds that’s fair late first I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry so so what do you think
About him him going for 20 uh in Houston and then somehow riding the bench the entire first half the next night I’m okay with it because I think you want to put omx in a position to succeed omx got all his points last night on like hustle
Opportunities and if he’s not in the place where he can run the offense or not run the offense but be like that that right Cog in the offense where he’s doing the things that he can do I don’t want to put him in a position to fail um
I don’t necessarily neily think he’s the kind of guy to to really let Miss shots phase him but it it it’s one of these things that that I feel um I like the way they’ve treated treated him because it’s game 29 game 30 if we’re talking game 50 and he hasn’t really done
Anything different then then maybe it’s it’s up for more criticism but with the way Hardy progressed last season I just I have to I have and the way Lively looks right now I just have to to kind of give kid and the coaching staff the benefit of the doubt sure sure yeah
Definitely definitely um there there was if uh going back to exm I wanted to there was one play in the second quarter and this was before he had really started to to hit a bunch of shots I think he had only he only had two points
At this point but that long long uh Outlet pass uh in the second quarter to uh to Timmy Hardaway streaking down the court uh and he just throws down this vicious dunk but it was it was exom seems to me like the only guy uh who I just love the way he makes
Things happen true you know he’s he he he forces the issue offensively and even you know at that point he wasn’t he wasn’t really on fire scoring yet but he always finds a way to make things happen I just love the way this guy’s playing so I hope you haven’t listened to our
Podcast because as a Ms Moneyball contributor I would think weird that you listen to the podcast of the the website that you are is affiliated with but I have described Dante exom the way Jack doni uh Jack doni in and 30 Rock describes the trivection oven where he
He he um Dante xim is the third heat um he’s the thing that really makes the makes it all work I you know kid apparently uh shout out to Harold in the comment um Harold says uh that Jason kid says that that he’ll remain a starter moving forward which is fascinating um
Because he can you know that that sometimes they put him in like the power forward slot when not like slot but it’s a three guard thing are you stop barking at me I cannot help you I know you really want Josh Green to play Huck but I can’t he’s injured it’s very important
That that that our man Dante ex him play um who is just absolutely incredible um I I’ve been really thrilled with with all of it I’m I’m glad to see that that he’s he’s had this workout this way because uh you know spur former Spurs uh front office guy Dennis Lindsay was
Probably the deciding factor in exm coming over um and been playing with the MS I’m just I’m really pleased that it works yeah yeah and uh you know the other guy is U is AJ Lawson uh um out of nowhere uh don’t know don’t really know what to make of this guy
Just yet the last two games have been nice you know me as someone who who in our uh preseason when you said who’s the player that you’re excited to see grow or take the next step or something uh you know for a guy who picked Jaden Hardy like oh
I think Jaden Hardy might take the next step in his development you know that’s not happening at the moment but the end of the bench guys like Lawson you know he it just gives me the same feeling that that I got in the last 16 or 20 games last year thinking about
Hardy you know no I do and the thing about and and you know let’s just be clear here I I didn’t talk about Hardy last night but I wrote about Hardy I was not on the podcast last night if anybody read my recap I excoriated hardy hardy played uh entitled basketball last night
Uh didn’t see enough of him tonight to really judge him so I don’t want to be too harsh on him but the thing that Hardy did last year that he’s not doing this year in my opinion is playing balls to the wall every time he’s on the court undercontrolled but extremely hard
Basketball that is the thing that Lawson is doing Lawson is playing like a madman when he’s on the floor and he was on the floor during that incredible comeback run against Oklahoma City yes he missed a clutch three but he had made a couple yes he challenged Chad holam for some
Reason sometimes we lose our minds it’s okay like looks like the the Jack Skellington so I can understand why you’d want to go at him I do but don’t do it he’s really good at basketball but I really loved I’ve really loved what Lawson has brought to the table I just I
I have do dang in the chat says I’d really like to see more of Dexter Dennis and I get why because Dexter uh last night was doing the same thing just playing really hard and and uh so Del Cruz Gian Dela Cruz says Hardy is overthinking that’s a great take I
Really do think there’s to that like I refer to the the scene like the halftime scene and The Replacements a lot about quick you know where they’re talking about quicksand uh and what athletes do when they just try like Hardy is forcing the issue and what was so nice about
Hardy in that Clippers game is he just shot the ball there was no dribbling it was catch and shoot and I think the Mavericks have to put him in the position to catch and shoot like stop asking him to do stuff where he playm
Makes I I he can’t do it I don’t know yep I don’t know there was point also late in the second quarter uh when AJ Lawson was trending in the United States so hey I I feel like we he must have been doing something damn good for that
To happen well that also might mean that no one is on Twitter anymore but I’m I’m gonna I’m GNA enjoy it it’s only Mavs fans that’s right that’s right so all right let’s look ahead a little bit um the Mavericks play a Christmas Day game against the Phoenix Suns uh this I you
Know back when they announced this this was was really exciting but the Suns kind of suck um that said I am really looking forward to this game it’s a late game which I normally hate but on Christmas Day 9:30 start time you know you will have had your fill of family
Time you you know if you’re like you know my wife will probably stay up and watch the game with me but you know my parents will have gone home it’ll be nice to watch uh Luca um see we’ll see what present he gives his son uh Devin
Booker um you know and maybe they can talk about how how how Booker feels about no longer being the only child um I I just I can’t wait for this game because I think these two teams particularly if Kyrie plays he seems to like to play against Kevin Durant like
We could have like 130 to 135 point game oh definitely definitely you always get up for for a Suns game um I think the last two Mavs games that I’ve been to in person just happened to be against the Suns and in both of those games Devin
Booker just went ridiculous on us and uh you know any reason that you hate the Spurs is good enough for me or that you hate the Suns is good enough for me uh that’s that’s my reason is that that he has ruined two straight math game math games
Of mine but um B is such a fun player to hate because he’s so good he deserves it he’s he’s not like soan who I I think sucks again we’re just going to emphasize that point soan sucks um Brooker is just an incredible incredible basketball player uh that the jokes
About him sort of right themselves when he’s bad I mean but I I just like watching him and again Durant I don’t know how old you are but I was uh I was like my first first year out of college when Durant was at te at Texas I was
Yeah I was I was at Texas when he was was at Texas yeah he was appointment viewing in a way I think Zion might be the the next athlete that was like that for me like watching Kevin Durant was so amazing and I just really relish the opportunity to watch him play basketball
I do yeah yeah he hasn’t he hasn’t lost lost much uh and uh I mean he’s he yeah the way he’s playing I if it almost makes I wish people would talk about him at 39 the way they talk about LeBron this season right because what what Durant’s doing is is more
Impressive than people don’t like Durant um that’s that’s the thing and and where I find where I find you know LeBron James like astoundingly corny I mean tonight he’s tweeting about why can’t guys go into the Basketball Hall of Fame while they’re still playing and it’s
Like someone I read a theory once that LeBron like I I read a theory once that LeBron James would be considered 50% cooler if he never had a cell phone um and and I just I really and and there’s an argument to be made similar to KD
Because KD is like online all the time and he says weird he seems to smoke a lot of weed and be kind of like he’s like kind of a sad guy which I mean that’s G be relatable I just I like him his post his postgame pressers where
He’s got that hoodie like just just like he’s high he’s doing this number into the microphone you know almost I just I like beating him I I I I’m gonna need I’m just seeing right now apparently Luka donic gave his teammates bikes for Christmas what the like
Bicycles yeah like actual bicyc like Tim Hardaway was I I found a video from Brad Townsen of him just riding down the hallway in a bike and I’m just like what what is going on I love God the MBA is so stupid and I love it I I cannot
Express how much I love it um all right the dog will not stop barking too much barking on the podcast tonight I really apologize to everyone my house is simply utter chaos between two dogs two small children my wife letting me continue to do this as best as possible um if
Anybody really wants to know how my week went I got a vasectomy on Tuesday I blew a car tire out yesterday and then today my refrigerator died and so we’ve just had a comedy of errors at this point to where the fact that I’m uh I’m not like
Super I just as I was telling our staff are Isaac um I just laugh at how ridiculous like sometimes life is just ridiculous like you can’t get mad it’s just like dumb happens time and time again I didn’t die um the vect me hurt not too bad but it was it it wasn’t
Great uh and then the the I didn’t die in the car accident and then I apparently have you know dude I didn’t eat any uh spoiled food um it’s it’s just been so it’s like to see you know and then the Mavericks lose that horrible game yesterday and then they
Lose the game against Clippers it’s just been kind of a week and so yeah to to end the week uh you know on a a a Beatdown of the Spurs feels really good and then we’re gonna come back and watch them beat the the Phoenix Suns I’m really I’m really pleased I’m really
Pleased so yeah H Matthew Matt we have five people named Matt at the Mavs Moneyball website we’re gonna invite Mr Martinez back on the show at some point did you have fun oh man this was great yeah I really appreciate it well you’re absolutely fantastic for Pinch hitting last minute we appreciate you
Um trying to think if I want to know anything else I can’t really think of anything else you know what if if if there was one thing there there was a comment uh when we were talking when we were Laing AJ Lawson uh like we were um it is year
Six and here we are talking about which uh which former G Leaguers Luca looks uh looks good playing next to is this that was fan 123 in the comments who said that so uh what what’s your take to bring us back to Earth in our AJ Lawson discussion that’s what fan 123
Had to say I mean the year six thing is something we’ve talked about quite a lot because it’s frustrating that it took three years four years for the Mavericks to realize that they tried to build too quickly but you can do one of two things you can look forward
Or you can look back and I look back in states of Rage but I try not to I just can’t help it sometimes where they are now it’s fun I mean what are they they’re 17 and 12 if you have told me 17 like that’s great that’s just it’s great
I I kind of hoped that they would be near 500 by the new year you know what I mean yeah yeah yeah that that that sets me right yeah I mean this this is more fun watching m than we’ve had than we’ve had in a few
Years so yeah definitely uh do asks uh he hopes that Josh is okay I Josh went to go see Godzilla minus one I I he got the opportunity I told him to go do that and again Jeff Gatlin said in the chat TMI Kirk yeah I’m sorry you know
Happens I just I’ve kind of lost my mind it’s Christmas in two days you know got all the I haven’t wrapped any gifts like there’s just so much stuff to do and here I am wasting time on a podcast but I really uh really enjoyed talking to
You um absolutely we’ll be hanging out on Monday night Christmas uh for anybody who wants to join thanks so much uh for hanging out with us guys we’ll be back in Monday everybody have a great Christmas Eve and great Christmas if you celebrate otherwise we’ll talk to you on
Monday have a good day guys happy holidays Go Mavs
Kirk and Matthew get together to talk about the second in-season matchup of two old Southwest division foes, the #DallasMavericks against the #SanAntonioSpurs. It’s Victor Wembanyama’s first game in Dallas. Luka Doncic is back after a one-game break. Let’s see who comes out on top.
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You’re not paying a
attention. They rigged the schedule for Embiid to get out front and stay there. The bias against Euros has reached NBA headquarters. Also, the real purpose of the In-season tourney was to catapult LeBron into the discussion.
I almost want to say that in retrospect they started letting superstars change teams as a way to keep foreigners from taking over the league sooner.
Great show as always!
Speaking of Jason Kidd, an adult cello student of mine who's from Dallas was up there all the way from Austin the day after that frustrating Clippers loss. He texted me and said he had just met Kidd at a local coffee place. He was eating a piece of chocolate cake. I requested a selfie the next time he's rubbing elbows with the Mavs! Very cool!! Yeah Kidd is waking up and for the 2nd year out of 3 seasons he's getting these guys playing some D! The D was missing in the 1st half, but like we usually do we came out and whooped ass in the 3rd against a bad team granted, but the Spurs generally historically F__k with us. GO MAVS!
In this box score tonight Hardy got 6 rebounds, and for a guard that is awesome! Not 15 points like the other night, but Kidd has been emphatic we need to rebound better and Hardy listened tonight!
Merry Christmas Kirk & Matt!!
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Love you guys! Merry Christmas 🎄
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Great content, as always. Merry Xmas Mavs family 🤗🎉
Is the fact that he can "elevate" okay players the reason he will never have a fully talented team? What could be, if he had many talents around him that could make him even better. I hope we will see that with Lively and Kyrie in the long run. Exum is also perfect, very smart player that isn't scared to make decision and not defer to Luka. With more chemistry we could see really fun basketball.
The best thing about Luka is also the worst, he plays according to competition and challenge, he gets bored and plays at 50% against bad teams and tries creative shit passes. That means he talks to the ref when they are the biggest enemies on the court haha. It's crazy to think the next step for him isn't about basketball skill other than defense, but about staying focused and consistently present in games. Crazy talent.
Hardy in the clippers game had shot set up by luka and others, even being told where to shoot from. The less he thinks the better he plays.
Josh is the real one for doing a podcast after Rockets game.
Truly sicko stuff😮😮😮