Max Strus joins NBA Today after 59-FOOT GAME-WINNER to lead Cavs to defeat the Mavericks

Max Strus joins NBA Today after 59-FOOT GAME-WINNER to lead Cavs to defeat the Mavericks

Thanks to some late game heroics is that what we’re going to call it from they have gotten the best shot of the intire Season we’re going to show you exactly what went down we’re going to pick things up when it got good in the fourth quarter here today Mavs up by

10 at this point But Here Comes Max stru my goodness one of the hottest performances we’ve seen especially from Deep everything was just going down but you know in this game Luca looked real good as well but check a little confusion here w K reserving saying he

Didn’t step out of bounds but he clearly did maxu says you know what I don’t care should I say bang somebody better find maxu cuz these there some communication issues what where there he is again but somebody did find maxu and it was the Cleveland Cavaliers one of the most

Underrated Sig is this off seon maxu he went four from four from three in a stretch of a minute and 7 Seconds how long a minute and 7 Seconds wow and then let’s go forward here this is under a minute to go here Maps getting out in

Trans transtion Luca little give and go throws it down a lot of momentum shifters down the stretch of the game I was like okay the M’s got it then the Cavs got it then check out this jab shot by the guy who has been balling for the East do you

Think he call Bank on that one perk I don’t know but it the answer and then Here We Go Again a costly turnover here for the Cleveland Cavaliers just couldn’t quite get a handle on it and we would see the Dallas Mavericks take advantage we should note

Here no Donovan Mitchell on the floor Luca gets control of it here Zach a little no look di yeah that was a sweet no look pass Luca has some gems every game game’s over that’s it no timeouts Evan moley gives it back to Max stru is

It good he’d let it fly he gets it to go Max stru the hot hand look at the celebration the tide has turned in Cleveland and you feel it one more look at this lets it fly from 60 ft pretty good it wasn’t though the longest game winner that we’ve seen in

The NBA that one it belongs to Devonte Graham this is back in 2021 just just a foot more and by the way after the celebration in Cleveland last night Max trce of course had to be reminded of this shot right here the second longest

Was 60 why you cut me short man 60 foot buzzer be the second longest in NBA history right there yeah that’s what they just told me back there so pretty cool but if it ain’t first you’re last in the great words of Ricky Bobby shake and bake Ricky Bobby you

Thought it was going to be done when PJ Washington hit that because I mean especially look at keep an eye on PJ Washington here his body language is this one’s let go flex going he’s got the flex going he’s like oh never mind oh no oh no no no a little little to

Cool and then watch Maris more it hit his soul Malika it hit his soul felt that he said you won’t break my oh never never mind it was br oh you will he was broken pavs win that one and streu became the fourth player in the last 25

Seasons to make five five three-pointers in the final four minutes of the game he also single-handedly outscored the Mavs 15-9 over the final 3 minutes and 42 seconds we now welcome in the author of the biggest shot possibly of the entire season Max streu is here with us Max can

You just walk us through those final seconds of the game I wish I could I’ll do my best uh it’s been pretty crazy you know the guy who usually shoots those shots Don Donovan was on the bench so um you know I kind of took the ball out looked for

Anybody who was open and and Evan was right there so threw it to him and reluctantly he passed it right back to me and um took one dribble and and shot it and as soon as it left my hand it it felt really good and I kind of knew um

That I had a pretty good chance of going in if not right when I left my hand yeah it it looked good from the moment it left your hand and you’d been hot for the kind of the the final few minutes of the the fourth quarter there so it was

Pretty impressive to watch it felt like the perfect time to say oh yeah the stru is loose like that that that’s the line that came to mind at least for me but if I’m not mistaken that’s not the farthest gamewinner that you have ever hit take me back to what

Was yeah um back in my division 2 days when I was playing at Lewis University I think it was a tie game and you know same situation they had the ball out of bounds um but we ended up getting a steal and the ball just like landed in

My hands and I gathered and and shot a three4 court shot and banked in for the win similar um area on the court as I did last night so it’s it’s pretty special to to to see those videos lined up together one of your teammates just texted me just before we started this

Interview I’m surprised that you didn’t jump up dwade style on the scorers Table after you hit that shot last night did that go through your mind just just a little bit just a little bit just a little bit Yeah if it was a bigger you know if we were accomplishing something

Wining a championship or something maybe but uh I think the way I celebrated with the teammates and everything we did was was uh well worth it well you know though what it’s like to be in the NBA finals and valid or not there have been questions about what this Cavs team has

If you have enough to make it to the NBA finals but you have that experience with the Miami Heat so what do you see in this team that gives you the confidence that you could make a deep postseason run we got that same Charisma about us

We got the same grit we got the same toughness um I’m pretty sure this the person that texted you earlier ding ding ding what’s up Tristan upb Family Y but yeah I mean we got a we got a really good team really good group of guys that are uh super close-knit you know

Hopefully we we keep continuing to find that consistency playing together and um you know anything can happen when the playoffs come so we just got to keep battling you know the traits you know the DNA of an NBA Finals team is this team that you’re playing on right now

Better than the team that you went to the finals with in the Miami Heat uh I’m not going to throw anybody to the bus but I think we have you know similar traits and characteristics as the team that I was on last year um you know we

Have a lot of talented players on this team we’re very deep just like the Miami Heat team was last year um man I do think we’re capable of achieving those same uh goals that we did uh with the team that I was on last year so um I’m

Not going to say one’s better than the other um I’m enjoying my time here in Cleveland I think we have a really good team and a really good chance um at doing something special and um you know we’re just going to keep taking it one

One game at a time and seeing where we come out at the end of the year a little bit of luck a little bit of talent you never know what Canen happen just like that shot that we all saw last night Max thank you so much for spending some time

With us here on NBA today no problem thanks for having [Applause] me NBA is

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Zach Lowe, Chiney Ogwumike and Kendrick Perkins join me on NBA Today to react to Max Strus’ 59-foot game-winning buzzer-beater which pushed the Cleveland Cavaliers to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, 121-119. Then, Strus joins the show to discuss the shot and the reaction he has gotten from teammates and fans.