What’s The Ceiling for Luka, Kyrie and The Dallas Mavericks? | JJ Redick

What’s The Ceiling for Luka, Kyrie and The Dallas Mavericks? | JJ Redick

All right we got a question about who will win Sixth Man of the Year which brings us to our draftking sports book segment who will win six man of the year um all right according to draftking sports book uh Malik monk is the oddson favorite to win he’s at minus 115 Tim

Hardway Jr at plus 175 and Norman Powell at plus 750 no one else has better odds uh than I think plus 1200 so those three guys uh leading the way I do have one uh I guess Darkhorse candidate uh if you will um Malik monk having an outstanding season

His playmaking he’s leading he’s he’s averaging a career high in points obviously but he’s averaging a career high and assists he’s never averaged I think more than four he’s averaging over five this year second year with that team he’s been awesome Tim Hardaway Jr 17 a game 36% from three Norman Powell a

Beacon if you will of efficiency in 25 minutes a game 13 points a game shooting 45% from three all those guys are still in the running I I certainly would put monk as the leader right now um I don’t know that Norman Powell gets there unless there’s a a stretch where there someone

Gets hurt yeah and he’s playing more minutes because the production is not matching he’s been awesome but the overall production is not matching uh Tim Hardway Jr with the restructuring of the Mavs this these you know PJ Wasington coming in Daniel Gafford coming in um they’ve won six games in a

Row he’s got a chance to he’s got a chance all right I mentioned my one Darkhorse uh candidate Tommy Caris LeVert uh plus 2200 right now on draftking sports book uh having a really good season and with the way the Cleveland Cavaliers have played over the

Last 20 games uh and risen in the standings he’s going to for sure be in the conversation and deservedly so at the end of the season I wanted to ask you about the Mavs just just in general the six game winning streak obviously a obviously added Gafford and PJ at the

Deadline only teammates averaging 255 and five or Kyrie and Luca um what’s their ceiling I hate this question but like is this a team that like like you’ve you know you have two Transcendent talents in this back court is this the team that can win the finals

As a general feeling on on this year’s NBA I think the Western Conference has a more wideopen feel than the Eastern Conference some really good teams in the Eastern Conference but I could probably name four or five uh yeah four or five that I think could win

A championship this year um maybe less with the West it feels like similar to last year where I I made the argument you could talk me into seven teams winning the West you could probably talk me into seven or eight teams winning the west and Dallas is one of those teams

For sure um we know who Luca is we know who Luc is in the playoffs Kyrie has the experience he’s got the big time clutch moments in the playoffs um this roster now feels like a roster that complement the two of them yep so I don’t want to

Put a ceiling on them Tommy I’ll say I I want to see more I think you answer the question without answering yeah but it’s a very good team and it’s honestly like we we did the show with Nikas and Steve on Monday about um you know teams to watch and like

We we all agreed on our text chain on Sunday night we were like we all kind of want to talk about Dallas but we also would rather talk about them more in depth once we’ve seen this group together for five to 10 games let me ask about Gafford in particular and I’m not

Comparing the two of them at all because they’re completely different players in every way but I remember when Boston made the white trade there was a sense and you said this at the time but there was a sense with a lot of players around like players around the league knew how

Good he was whether or not everyone else knew it was kind of like this is a this is a great fit I would say with Gafford for the last like year and a half I probably there’s probably been like seven or eight guys who’ve like brought

Him up un prompted been like this is the guy like like I don’t want to you know blow this I’m going to say names or whatever but it’s like people who are like we want to trade for him and I have no idea why it didn’t happen and so when

That happened it didn’t get a lot of hype at the time but clearly it’s clear like you watch them you watch them play that OKC game clearly he knows what he’s doing with Luca from the jump and so is there a world where you like like that

Not to downplay Washington but like The Gafford Edition in particular could be a thing that we look back on in two months and be like okay no one was saying on February 10th or 8th or whatever the day deadline was that this was going to be the the pickup of the offseason but

Heading into the play TR deadine yeah of the trade deadline but heading into the playoffs it really was um yeah it gives them obviously more depth at that position which is something I think they needed and in particular because Lively has been really good for a rookie you

You obviously don’t know how he’s going to play in the playoffs right um so I think Gafford just with that a little bit more experience a little bit more experience little bit more of like he knows what the [ __ ] is going on uh it’ll be interesting it’s funny because Luka was

Joking about like we had to teach Lively how to do the Gortat screen I I I want to see more of that little pairing with with Luca and Gafford and pick and roll um yeah I I I I think it’s it’s weird because you know he got traded from

Washington it’s weird because Washington also traded porzingis to Boston yeah which is like unlocked their team in my estimation it’s why I they’re to me they’re they’re the favorites right now to win he gives them something they haven’t had um in a number of ways defensively offensively posting up the

Two-man action on the week side with Jaylen Brown getting to his right hand him getting behind the defense like it’s it’s and by the way when it happened we were like oh Boston got got better right but it’s like no they got really better if Boston wins the championship where does getting

Porzingis and two first round picks rank in terms of just like every like like who knows what everyone else was thinking in that trade but it is it’s crazy when you actually like look back and see that deal for how good he is there yeah I think Brad St has a

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In this clip, JJ Redick talks about Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and the Dallas Mavericks. He talks about the trades the Mavs made for Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington and why this team doesn’t really have a ceiling right now.

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