Mavs’ Jason Kidd Speaks After Loss vs. Kings: Jan. 27, 2024

Mavs’ Jason Kidd Speaks After Loss vs. Kings: Jan. 27, 2024

What do you think about Grant play tonight he was great he was great um physicality um being able to play make and then also he uh gave us a you know spark he shot the ball well from beond the AR um but I thought he was really good

Tonight how would you sum up the last two nights for for Luca um and how do you feel about him going 91 minutes over those two nights yeah I think again um you know when you look at what he’s done here in the last 48 hours uh he’s averaging a

Triple double um he’s averaging a million points he’s doing everything we’re asking we just got to find him some help you know we got to be consistent um with the help and also you know our health and everything else but we’re asking him to do everything and

He’s trying so that’s that’s how I feel about what he’s doing for us right now he gets us back in the game um we have a great look we’re only down six timy gets a wide open Corner three you know if we make that we’ll see what happens but the

Group fought on the backto back historic night last night energy was inconsistent we were trying to find it from everybody and uh that group there at the end kept fighting finding a way and so it’s a lot of character in that in that locker room they didn’t give

Up is that kind of what you’re looking for when when you do make the decision to play Luka 46 minutes like is the scenario where where you’re one shot away from a one possession game you know is that kind of the hope that you’re going to go ahead andt his minutes

46 yeah well um the game plan is always to try to keep them under 48 so um we did that tonight U but I think when you look at um just with with the the depth that we have you know he’s out there trying to do it you know by himself

That’s who he is he loves to Take On The World um again tonight um he helped his team um you know unfortunately he didn’t shoot the ball like he did last night but he still is a problem um it created a lot of open shots for his teammates

And in that first half we just didn’t shoot the ball well um but dur in the last you know four minutes we start to get our Rhythm we start to make shots and becomes a two possession game it could easily have been a one possession

Game there if uh if we make that corner three so um to play him 46 minutes um you know that’s that’s you know something that we talk about during the game is uh at some point that game was out of hand almost and and those guys didn’t stop playing and kept fighting

And they found themselves in the ball game and so his minutes got extended are you having those conversations with LCA and and if so what’s what’s his his his the conversation is with him is when the horn goes off if you do you’re not going to win that conversation so just knowing

That he doesn’t want to come out um he’s always trying to find a way to win and that’s who he is he’s always going to try to fight I thought he was very positive on the bench and during the game when we word down to just keep fighting and his team teammates

Responded they kept fighting and found themselves in a two possession two possession game with a wide open three in the corner

Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd spoke to reporters after the team’s loss against the Sacramento Kings.

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