The Dallas Mavericks Are A Completely New Team

The Dallas Mavericks Are A Completely New Team

All right guys come on you don’t sign up for the damont sabonis workout program unless you want to sweat unless you want to work all right come on let’s go final push literally push push push come on guys push right in the back push push off for those rebounds push push okay

Elbow elbow right in the chest cavity guys elbow elbow chest cavity trachea chest cavity tracha all right handoff handoff handoff get those dribble handoffs in handoff got to bump up those assist numbers baby handoff the Dallas Mavericks beat nay stomp on the Sacramento Kings 132 to 96 and what was

Probably the most important game of the season for the Mavericks one of the most important games of the season for the Kings and where the Western Conference standings is this basically acted as a playoff game as a mini playin game if you will for both of these teams to try

And avoid that play in and the Mavericks came out and just my God it’s five wins in a row now for the Mavericks they are nine and won in their last 10 the only loss over that stretch being against the thunder on the road second night of a

Back toback without Luca donic and over those last 10 games the Mavs are second in defense eighth in offense and third in net rating and folks it’s almost hard to contextualize how different this basketball team is compared to where they were at the start of February like

If you didn’t know any better and you watched a a game from the Mavericks at the end of January versus now you would think two seasons had passed between that team and this team like you would think a mini rebuild happened in between then and now if you go back to the trade

Deadline the Mavericks are 15- six which is the fourth best record since then fourth in net rating third in offense eighth in defense the Celtics nuggets Thunder and Pelicans are the only other teams top 10 in both offense and defense over that stretch the best stat I could

Find to at least try to contextualize how different this basketball team is compared to their pre-t trade deadline counterpart in the 21 games since the trade the Mavericks have been below League average offensively seven times they are 5-2 in those games compared to pre-trade deadline they went 1 and 17

When they were below League average offensively 1 and 17 and they are 5-2 since what in those 21 games the Mavericks have been above League average defensively 13 times they are 13-0 in those games so when they’re just a League average defense not even good just League average they are pretty much

Unbeatable including last night where the MAV shot 57% from three I mean they couldn’t missed they’ve only shot above League average from three three times in the 10 games in which they are 9-1 they are 7-0 in games where they shoot below League average 7-0 before the trade

Deadline the Mavericks shot below League average from 3 21 times and they went 6 and 15 in those games this is a completely new basketball team that does not need to bomb threes in order to win how do they win games they play defense why are they better at defense now

Because PJ Washington is a dog and Daniel Gafford is really good and adding two legitimately good Defenders into your rotation just makes life easier for everyone else Derrick Jones Jr who’s also a great defender now his life is a little bit easier here cuz less is asked of him since joining the

Team PJ Washington has a 111 defensive rating when he’s on the floor that’s great that’s really good we love that PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford together the newcomers they have a plus 10 net rating when they share the floor together and a 109 defensive rating and then PJ Washington and Derrick Jones Jr

The two three and D Wings the two guys who are tasked with guarding the other team’s best players night in and night out they have a plus 19 rating when they’re on the floor together with a 103 defensive rating wow and after last night’s Kings game the new MAV starting

5 is officially their most used lineup this season which is a crazy thing in and of itself but this this lineup has a plus 25 net rating with a 96 defensive rating in today’s NBA that’s just insanity and I know it’s small sample size but this is their most used lineup this entire

Season they’ve only been on the team for over a month a month and a half what the hell is going on and last night we let the Luca talk don’t remember how many shots he took but he made M PJ Washington starts making threes this team is even more scary than they’ve

Already looked like this is a guy who’s been in a horrible Dreadful shooting slump yet the Mavericks are still winning games and he takes probably the third or fourth most shots on the team good job here by the Mavericks they knew the kings were going to send two at Luca

Let PJ Washington set the screen let him pop out for a clean look at three look at this great defense in transition Gafford gets cross smatched on Harrison Barnes that’s all right use your length use your athleticism contest that shot great work by the big right there this

Would be a stupid clip to post cuz it’s just pretty much regular basic Luca was playing this game with a her ailles and it showed I mean he was lipping up and down the court more so than usual because I do agree that sometimes he does does a nice job staying with Keegan

Murray here and then good job jumping the passing Lane right there that’s why luuka averages so many steals he’s smart he knows what he’s doing guys he knows what he’s doing Damon sabonis Can I Have This Dance you are cooked food my friend step up in your mouth

PJ Washington made three threes in the first quarter of this game feels like he didn’t make three threes his entire career as a Maverick up until this point but this is why popping out two go to Luca wide open three let him get a rhythm you know don’t don’t stick him in

The corner and you know pray that he makes catch and shoot threes after he’s been kind of you know out of rhythm for the whole game let him step in his shots like these absolutely love it and we already know how good he is defensively

Look at him right here on some bonus he had multiple possessions in this game going to work absorb an elbow right to the teeth and I’m knocking out of bounds I’m not sure that’s what he said I’m sorry I didn’t mean to say that then how about this for PJ Washington’s

Thirdd three of the quarter little going to slip this drag screen right here get right to that spot on the wing wide open three threes you got to guard me now great job it’s a great start good job Jason kid another one for your coach of the year candidacy Derrik Lively and

Really the entire Mavs team played great defense in this game this is the best way to deal with all of the screens that the kings are going to set the Knicks did it a few weeks ago I think or a week ago whenever whatever that game was I

Watched that game whenever the Knicks beat the Kings and the Kings only scored 90 something points was just the defensive intensity the Knicks had playing at the level of the screen and the bigs showing and then recovering here the moment Deen Fox Retreats a little bit Lively gets back Maxi is

Ready to help and now Lively’s in a great you know a help position here on this dear and fox floater that’s no good you know Fox might make that every now and then but that’s a good job disrupting that this was a this was a Kings team that annihilated the

Mavericks twice earlier in the season because they just feast in the paint I think they only scored 20 something paint points in this game the Mavericks said nuh-uh we’re not doing that again oh my goodness and then you got this guy on your team s

King oh my God oh my Lord where the hell are you going foot on the line I don’t even care Oh Keon ell Keon Ellis you’ve been good man sorry look at the bench team’s gonna Blitz these ball screens it’s imperative for the guy in the middle of the floor

In this case Lively make the right read great job ball and movement Tim Hardway Jr if you missed that shot everybody in my chat would be saying Tim hard junor is the worst player on the planet but he makes that shot it’s go time ask LeBron James look

At this individual defense by Derrick Jones Jr Aon Fox one of the quickest shiftiest guards in the league great work right there great work on an island all right let’s repay Derrick Jones Jr with a three great kick out by Luca be ready to shoot that thing

Look the MAV shot 56% from three they’re not going to shoot that number obviously if they did well clear your clear your calendars in June folks CU there’s going to be a parade okay but uh they’ll shoot better than they have over the last 10 games and if they start knocking down

Shots with regular consistency at least around a League average clip which they have not been I don’t know how you stop this offense we already showed a clip earlier PJ Washington on sabonis and trust me there will be more but here’s PJ Washington on Fox just the defensive

Versatility brings adds a whole another wrinkle to the team kick out Mavs got a little bit lucky there LCA where you going buddy your guys right here all right let’s not float into the paint like that rebound hunting all right I don’t I don’t want you to get the stab

Ping moniker one player in this game is 100% a stab pter but we don’t want you going for that this is just nasty man oh Luca send that to Penny hard away oh and he’s staring so Luca was talking some in this game he’s staring down

Somebody now we’re gonna pause here and analyze the trajectory of his eyes right let’s pause can we pause please all right he’s looking around this region okay now let’s backtrack a little bit those are two little children now I’m trying to do some investigation here was Luca talking to little children

On sitting cord side now it’s Poss Luca’s a 300 IQ player and I don’t think people realize that lobbing it up to uh Gafford pretty good defense by of bonus actually to prevent that lob but really what Luca doing here instead of taking that easy floater is he’s getting

Gafford an assist guys that was a decision on Luca’s part you might think oh he made the right wrong read here should have just taken that floater no no no he’s just letting Gafford get an assist I mean that’s a teammate here we go good defense here good defense PJ

Washington Working to prevent an easy entry pass Lucas shading it a little bit too and a good rotation and close out by Derrick Jones Jr that’s the team defense that we need and then transition right here look at PJ Washington immediately going to work immediately on sabonis not

Letting him get not letting him get sealed off being able to contest that shot and then fight for the rebound afterwards that is great transition defense by both Kyrie Irving and PJ Washington PJ going to work before they even get at the free throw line making

Sure he does not get sealed off so he can contest this shot and prevent a Gort to seal I would say sabonis has no chance on Kyrie here but to be fair I don’t think anyone has any chance on Kyrie right here that de acceleration pull up going

Baseline I wish I could do that just once all right sabonis playing up on this ball screen good slip by Lively bounce pass read the defense kick to the corner Dante exom good day mate I mean this is what it’s all about folks all right back to our investigative

Series here on this one Luca step back three over Keegan Murray disgusting he’s obviously nasty Luka had 26 points in the first half only had 28 in this 28 points at the end of the game so he scored two points in the second half it wasn’t because he played bad or anything

Like that the map just didn’t eat him and he didn’t play at all in the fourth quarter now he hits the three and immediately he’s trash talking all right step back three obviously disgusting boom immediately shut the up no I don’t know what he said something along those lines

Now here are the children now I’m just saying here’s more good defense by Derrik Lively now Darren Fox will tell you that he probably should have just made that but forcing him outside and altering the shot contesting making that a little bit more difficult than it

Needed to be great work okay well first and foremost disgusting block by Malik Punk disgusting but then look at the transition defense here by your two superstars Kyrie jumping passing Lane Luca jump a passing Lane we’re going the other way no that’s a take foul ref the shot blocking presence of Derek Lively

Luca switched on to Fox knows that he’s got help that’s all right send him in to the help and then good hands by Lively I think he tipped that drop off he did great work by the rookie honestly Derrick Livy’s third quarter we’ll get to some clips here I’m pretty sure his

Third quarter might have been the best quarter of his career so far just defensively he was an absolute Menace I mentioned Luca only had two points in the second half Kyrie Irving had 18 points in the second half including 12 in the third quarter where he just

Pretty much took this game over and iced it I mean put the game out of reach sabonis your food to me step up and then a dunk this was Kyrie’s fifth dunk of the season that’s more dunks than he’s had in this season at any point in his

Career oh my Lord that was nasty look at this guy court side feel the same way brother where’d those kids go did they move the kids the kids appear to be gone from Courtside what is happening here more great defense here PJ Washington just moving his feet using his length

Harrison Barnes you got no real chance and then Here Comes Gafford to help not a bad slow step there by Harrison Mars Harrison Mars actually is pretty sneaky good at that move right there that little slow step but not over big GFF how about this defensive sequence from the MV of the association

LCA donic switches on to sabonis look at him battling look at him fighting look at him preventing a post up look at that and then PJ Washington individual defense that’s a terrible shot and look it’s look at Sweeney on the bench look at Sweeney on the bench yeah Kyrie starts knocking down

These threes when he’s in killer mode little jab step right in your face boom just need a little tiny little tiny bit of space time out Kyrie’s height that is what we love to see man that is what we love to see how do we feel about the

Vans on the coaches I think I like Mike Brown wears some Vans kind of sick actually more PJ Washington on s bonus look at him going to work here zonis catches this way outside the paint don’t let him get deep absorb every single forearm and elbow that

Sabonis is going to throw your way shot clock violation good job by Luca 2 in the passing lanes and then look at PJ Washington after this the little Flex the subtle Flex that’s what exactly what I want I want some dogs who take some pride and play in defense that’s exactly

What PJ Washington’s doing look at him mean mugging and flexing Luca hype too is he talking to the children again we’ve talked about PJ Washington’s struggles from the corner but now he’s knocked down three threes in this game he’s played some great defense he’s probably feeling really good about himself as he should

Balls moving here not a bad close out by sabonis and PJ Washington knocking that thing down if those start dropping uhoh masterful work here by Derrik Lively masterful dropping on that screen and then contesting that without fouling not falling for that first fake by Fox staying on the ground contesting that

And then going for the rebound great job Lively again going to work this time on sabonis forcing a pass out getting it back battling pushing him out the paint not fouling not B not biting on that pump fake contesting without fouling sabonis wants a foul that’s not

A foul that’s defense now run the floor Rook wa to box out great rebound PJ run the floor Rook run the floor great bounce pass by Kyrie yes sir more great defense by the Mavericks more great defense by Derrick Lively good job by Kyrie right here

Too great job getting over on that and then Lively sliding down to help not fouling contesting arm straight up that is not a foul folks more great defense from Derrik Lively I just want you to look at uh coach Sweeney’s reaction here to these plays look how happy he is look

How excited he is it’s like it’s like everything’s coming together we’ve been trying so hard all season to get all these things working and now it feels like they are that’s a great job by Lively right there man let’s close this out with this hilarious clip Tim Hardway Junior great

Game in this one hit a disgusting three right here that I mean the game is already over at this point but just listen to the disgust in the crowd just listen that’s had to hop on a flight from Utah after they went last night Hard Away S guys I’m starting to feel things I shouldn’t feel and I’m thinking I need to call a doctor

The Dallas Mavericks blow out the Sacramento Kings in one of the most important games of the season. Lead by Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, and their defense, this new look Mavericks team is playing as good as any in the NBA.

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