Luka Doncic on Mavs Blowout Loss to Celtics in Game 1: ‘Gotta focus on the next game’

Luka Doncic on Mavs Blowout Loss to Celtics in Game 1: ‘Gotta focus on the next game’

uh L LCA only one assist for you obviously extremely unusual don’t think we’ve ever seen that before in a game you played a lot of minutes in uh what were they doing or what were you guys not doing that made uh the distribution part of the game so difficult they mostly play one-onone they s a lot of help so that’s why Luca you’ve obviously been here before you know down 01 in a series what do you remember about you know the the first round and the second round what the next day was like for you guys what did it look like what did it feel like I don’t remember just you lose or you win uh first to four uh we got to focus on the next game does that give you guys confidence though of course you you want me to say we have no confidence I just want to hear you say it you know it’s good for our stories of course Luka obviously christops had a really big first half um just from what you remember playing with him um why was he so impactful out there just taking advantage of pretty much every matchup he had yeah I mean he was great for them uh he was knocking out shots he was blocking shots uh so it was he was really really huge for them uh on both ends of the floor teny right in the front what kind of problems does uh the Celtics five out offense present for you guys on defense uh they space their spacing is great and they have a lot of Shooters uh so I think we got to do a better job uh taking those three away luuka for you guys as a team defensively what needs to change I me you guys have been so good throughout these playoffs what was different tonight what did they do to get you guys off off your front foot uh just like I said right now uh we got to take those threes away and that’s that was what hurts us the most and just please say your uh name and affiliation Robert Lal BSO uh Luca um you guys did make a bit of a run at the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter uh what was working for you in that little patch of time that you know didn’t quite carry over to the entire game oh I’m just playing our basketball I think in those moments we were playing our basketball we were getting stopped uh we didn’t allow them to offensive rebound uh so we’re having fun out there those couple moments and that’s we got to do [Music] more hi Luka uh aelia for the German basket magazine you played already a lot of big games in Europe how was it compared to that now the first Finance game for you game one u i mean obviously this is a bigger stage uh but you know those games finals prepare you for this moment uh so we we passed game one we didn’t do our job well uh so we got to focus on the second one look to with clutch points um when when you guys got a a lot of Great Looks I I think especially KY just didn’t miss them when you when you have a game like that after playing together for so long this season all the ups and downs do do you say anything after a game like that is it kind of just you know move on to the next what do you how do you approach that uh just focus on the next game I think we really got good shots we just didn’t make them but all we got to go b game by game now the game one is over we got to watch film what we do what we do wrong and focus only on the next one back right Tim look at Tim Reynolds with the AP we all know that Boston makes a ton of Threes is the challenge more to take that away or for you guys to have to make more to kind of keep up knowing that they’re going going to make at least some I mean obviously I think they’re the best uh three-point shoo shooting team in the NBA uh so sometimes really hard to take those away uh especially when they have five guys out they can all shoot uh so obviously we got to make more we didn’t make enough shots today to beat them uh but we got to be better on both ends any other questions for Luka oh we good thanks very much thank you

Luka Doncic’s full postgame press conference after the Mavericks lose to the Celtics in Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals.

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