Mavericks-Wolves Reaction: Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving & Dallas are DANGEROUS | Hoops Tonight

Mavericks-Wolves Reaction: Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving & Dallas are DANGEROUS | Hoops Tonight

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So you guys don’t miss any of our content over the course of this season all right let’s talk some basketball moving on to wolves Mavs the Wolves end up making a late run in a similar way to what I was talking about with the Clippers earlier they had

Jaden McDaniels on on LCA donic and they had Anthony Edwards on Kyrie Irving they actually both spent some time on each guy down the stretch of the game but they were really locking in defensively and stagnating Dallas and then on the other end of the floor is a steady diet

Of jump shots from Anthony Edwards and from Carl towns Carl towns hit a couple of pick and pop threes off of uh Mike Conley pick and pop to the top of the key Anthony Edwards was just hitting these tough pull-up jump shots get a one

Leg pullup on the left side I think that was in Luca’s face and then he hit like a against Tim Hardway Jr like a body bump little bank shot on the right side that he hit and they take this six-point lead it’s one of 106 to 100 and then

Late in the game the Mavs get it back there was one tough shot from 106 103 Kyrie hit like a jab step jumper and Jaden McDaniel’s face from the top of the key that tied it but every other bucket the Mavs got down the stretch was from Luca donic pick and roll drawing

The second Defender up because for whatever reason the Wolves were were trapping uh Luca and these P ball screens even sometimes like 40 feet away from the basket which was a strategy I disagreed with which we’ll get to in a minute but they were scoring out of the

Slip so the first one they they Blitz Luca hits Norman pal not Norman pal excuse me Dwight Powell on the roll to the rim and he gets an and one at the basket then Kyrie hits the the jab step three to tie it at 106 the following

Possession once again I think it was Derrick Jones Jr slips as Carl towns shows they hit derck Jones Jr he rolls down the lane and makes a kickout pass to Kyrie Irving in the corner for a relatively open three he knocks that one down and then they ice the game from 109

106 with Derrick Jones slipping another trap bounce pass from Luca hits uh uh Derrick Jones Jr and he just goes up and dunks it with two hands and that effectively ices the game but I want to I want to get back to that in a minute when we talk about the Wolves because

Defensively I don’t agree with that strategy but I want to talk about Dallas’s defense for a second because they were awesome down the stretch of this game after ant and and Cat got them back into the lead with jump shots they fell apart with jump shots a took a

Bunch of Pull-Up jump shots late he missed them uh missed them all uh um Carl towns had backto back pick and Pops where Luca made really nice rotations to top of the key to get contest forc cat to rush the shot and he missed them both

They forced a team with a lot of size and power and one of the best downhill athletes in the league and ant to take a bunch of jump shots down the end of the game and then this is a a Mavericks team that struggled with rebounding and

Derrick Jones Jr came flying in for a bunch of big defense of rebounds finish the game with 10 rebounds the Mavericks this is a crazy stat for you guys over the last 10 games the Mavericks have the third best defense in the league they have guys competing at the point of attack guys

Are rotating they’ve got their Stars locked in on defense and they’re grabbing important defensive rebounds at the end of games that’s a curious Trend to see if it continues because if the Mavs end up getting into that like 12 11 10 range defensively for an extended stretch where like they’re an above

Average defense going into the postseason and you have Kyrie and Luca as like outstanding perimeter initiators that’s where we get to what could be a better version of the Mavs that made the Conference Finals a couple years ago again it’s not the same team they’re not

As fast uh in terms of like their wing defense right like I I I like Derrick Jones Jr and he’s doing a good job Tim Hardway Jr Derrick Jones Jr and Kyrie Irving all had key possessions late where they forced ant into jump shots so I want to credit those guys but like

Obviously Dorian finy Smith was a little bit more of a versatile defensive player they don’t have that type of thing but I think they have a little bit more offensive Firepower off the ball like Grant Williams had a couple of big plays late in the game offensively where like

He just has that Savvy ability to finish at The Rim he had a play where he got into goar’s body and kind of leaned out with his left hand to finish with his left that I think this team is just a little bit more Dynamic offensively than that particular MAV

Team was and if this defensive Trend continues it could be it could be a a sign of them entering into the Ender tier themselves if they can just give me another month or two of legitimate defense to demonstrate that it’s real and now we’re talking about a serious

Team down uh Kyrie Irving was incredible down the stretch we talked about him hitting the game tying three in ISO and then the eventual what basically amounted to the gamewinner in the right corner but in the last three games 29 Points nine rebounds and five assists

53% from the field 57% from three and 88% from the line so after being a little iffy in that first game as he was getting his rhythm back Kyrie is cooking with gas now on the Wolves front again I my main concern with them all year has

Been half court offense I’m a little worried about the types of shots they can generate it’s pretty much ant pick and roll with gobear and then conlay pick and pop with towns it’s pretty much like the two pet actions that you’ll see them run a lot but like when they throw

Bodies at ant you saw that play like ant feeds go bear on the roll and he gets kind of caught in no man’s land and he doesn’t know how to read the floor so he just makes a weird one hand a one foot jumping pass where just turns the basketball

Over um they’re allow they’re able to basically Force ant into pull up jump shots in those situations by offering help and ducking underneath picks right and then the Conley uh uh Carl towns one it’s one of those things where like like cat can make that shot and he like I

Said they got back into the lead with him making that shot but Dallas was able to rotate out of it and turn them into contested threes late this is not a team that generates super super highquality shots in the half court Court they’re still at 18th in half court offense for

The season in their last seven games they’re now three and four so starting to show some uh some cracks in the Armor after uh after heading into a tougher stretch of their schedule they’re 19th in offense over that span and 12th in defense their defense is slipping as

Well everything just comes down to their shot making and this is a team that is now 20th in spot up efficiency like they convert spot up possessions the 11th worst Mark in the league they the Mavs in particular were completely ignoring goar they were conceding shots to Jaden

McDaniels too actually is a capable shooter but they’re not guarding him like he is right Anthony Edwards are forcing him into pull up jump shots on the season he’s 37% that’s 0.92 points per pull-up jump shot for Anthony Edwards and so that’s a big part of what’s holding them back in the half

Court and that’s only going to become a bigger problem when they get into the postseason and then lastly I really did not like the defensive scheme against Dallas so like one of the things that I loved about Minnesota last year is like at the end of these games it’s Jaden on

An island ant on an island and like we got this like you see Kyrie Irving trying to ISO Anthony Edwards and he goes to a right shoulder fade and Anthony Ed Edwards just blocks it into Oblivion or Kyrie tried to ISO Jaden McDaniels late in the game and ended up

Turning it over like uh Luca made a tough step back jump shot over Jaden about like halfway through the fourth quarter but like make him make more shots I what I don’t understand is like your defense’s strength is on the perimeter in those individual matchups overall foot speed is not a strength of

That lineup because you have two bigs on the floor so when you get into rotation and they’re running these four on- threes suddenly that defensive Personnel you have on the perimeter is not as valuable and so why ConEd four on threes to Dallas when you can force Luca into

Tough difficult contested pull-up jump shots over in my opinion Jaden McDaniels the best perimeter defender in the league or one of the very best perimeter defenders in the league and so they allowed the Mavs to play Four on- threee basketball late in the game and they got

Open Catch and shoot shot for Kyrie easy roll to the basket for Dwight Powell easy roll to the basket for Derrick Jones Jr and that’s how they ended up losing the game late and so I didn’t really agree with that strategy I think they’re capable of being a better

Defense than they’ve shown in this in this recent stretch but they got a couple of uh tough games coming up and then they’re out of this tough part uh part of their schedule their next two games at Orlando and at Boston they can get through that things lighten up a

Little bit more with their Schedule

Jason Timpf reacts to the recent play of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving as the Dallas Mavericks have started to go on a run. When both Luka and Kyrie are clicking, their offense is unstoppable and the Mavs have become a real threat in the NBA’s Western Conference.

Timeline:
00:00 – Wolves-Mavs Reaction
03:02 – Mavericks defense drastically improving
04:37 – Kyrie Irving “cooking with gas”
05:00 – Concerns with Wolves offense

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