Early takeaways from the Kyrie Irving-Luka Doncic duo in Dallas | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim MacMahon and Tim Bontemps to discuss the biggest takeaways from the beginning of the Kyrie Irving-Luka Doncic pairing in Dallas.
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Arguably the two best scoring options for 1v1 in the nba but there defense is so bad unless they combine for 70 there not beating good teams
They need to get Nikola from the bulls feel like thst could open a third scoring option and pairing with Luka.
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Kyrie was ranked as one of the worst defenders in the league. All four years he played with LeBron, but the media never wanted to mention it, and threw LeBron under the bus. Look up the stats if you don’t believe me.
We just need a big man, Powell is alright but should be a bench player. Javale doesn’t give effort during the regular season and Christian Wood can’t guard a parked car.
Happy birthday, Michael Jordan. Air is my 2nd most anticipated film of 2023 behind someone who said, "I'm Batman." Still has the best-looking Batmobile ever.
They’re 3-3 since the trade fatboy
It's Kyrie team now
somebody gotta get this fat trash guy outta this show, dammit. guy sux.
I don’t think it’s championship or bust for Mavs this season. With Luka you always got a chance but I’m not anticipating it. But the hard part is done you got the superstar. Now the big ? is do they keep Kyrie? I think yes $$$ then you can start building around them. Add a big who can provide rebounding, rim protection along with some athletic 3&D wings. And I think forsure they can be a championship team
Mavs didn’t give up much for him. Only reason he was cheap to get was because of him being a UFA AND all the baggage he eventually brings, he was worth the risk.
is Green better than Wood? How to evaluate that ?
early takeaway is that they now aren't guaranteed to lose if Luka sits and they can get buckets that Luka doesn't generate and they aren't gonna be a good defense. They need some 3 and D help to make this an actual contender. They also would have sign and trade options if a team wants him and he wants out since we'd have bird rights and most teams can't open max contract space.
They've only played what one game together. Let's be honest this isn't going to work. Both of them essentially meet the ball in order to be effective, especially Kyrie Irving. This is just a experiment to see if it works but it's not going to work
There uniforms are so ugly. Looks like something for horses
Kyrie sign and trade for CP3… 3 team trade
Dallas in 0-3 since Kyrie joined. Jason Kidd should have figured out how to have Kyrie and Luka on the floor before he got there.
If I was Victor I wouldn't do the draft. I'd just try out for an NBA team as an undrafted player. Go exactly where I want.
They need some 3&d wings and a front court that can defend
mavs give a tons of points in the paint coz this delusional coach JMidd likes to play small ball and put non-center Dwight Powell over 25mins per game, meanwhile mavs 3rd best player Christian Wood only playing less than 20minutes and didnt have a chance to play at regulation, C.Wood averaging 17ppg 8rpg 2apg and 1.5bpg
Anthony Davis 😂 Tim was about to say
With the team the lakers have right now they can't afford to paid Kyrie Mavs need to make it work
Dave is such a Mavs fan.
Maxi is injury prone. So depending on him to come back and contribute in a positive way is a fools errand. It's only a matter of time before he gets injured again.
My thing is Kyrie is only replacing dinwiddie, vinny smith missed half of the year and luka was holding it down hardaway & woods. Now all of a sudden that kyrie is here there is all this talk about defense and stuff smh… Dallas wasnt going anywhere and now that you have a hall of fame player in kyrie people still find ways to talk sh*t about him 🤦🏾♂️
Did they just say Josh Green is the 3rd best player. Just say you don't know the roster. If you did then you know Tim Hardaway Jr is the next best player or even Christian Woods. Josh Green just deserved minutes and now received. Which was correctly stated.
Them getting Justin holiday and max coming back I think will help a bit
They need defense around them a real center and a draymond green type player. It seems like what they did was split luka into two people so instead of (1) luka dropping like 50 a game you got (2) lukas (luka and irving) dropping like 25 a game. But the thing is kyrie and luka can play well together but now its just down to getting solid role players
The Christian wood disrespect needs to stop he is the third best player and should start with luka and kyrie with two good defenders
terrible for the mavs spencer almost gave u 20 efficiently finney is good athletic wing and defender to have kyre is not the kinda co star luca needs he needs a big not a guard
dissapointed as a dallas fan