FIRST TAKE | “Luka Doncic is the best CENTER in the NBA!” – Stephen A. impressed by Mavs beat Kings

FIRST TAKE | “Luka Doncic is the best CENTER in the NBA!” – Stephen A. impressed by Mavs beat Kings

Kind of sort of we we’ve moved on so now MAV Kings Damon sabonis and Luca donic good star power here Kyrie in transition MAV Trail by three next MAV possession donic kicks it out to Dante exom watch it tie it 92 a piece later Kings down one sabonis the handoff to

Keegan Murray he twoo splashes the three that also gave sabon sabonis the 26 triple double this season that is most in the NBA look at Fox just toying ties it at 103 later PJ Washington wide open exom right here ties it it Mavs take the 106 103 lead next Kings

Possession Harrison Barnes misses Kings try to reset Barnes looking for Fox but what back court right nope oh no cannot do it massive mistake Mavs hold on to win 107 103 beat the team for the second time this week so the mass 12 and six it’s the All-Star break shooting 50%

From the field in that span the team of course has been led by Luca who’s averaging an NBA best 32.8 points per game since the break Absol a one and a half game lead over the Suns for the six seed in a western conference all right

Cin Clark and Iowa Pacers LA on a season long five game win streak tyres halberton first quarter jumper no Austin Reeves I’ll gather this loose ball lava to my man LeBron 16 points 10 boards eight assists for Mr James Lakers up 5 nothing second quarter James drives and man Anthony

Davis 24-5 three-point gain ler Reeves inside and kick out to R haimura who just does that Los Angeles down 5449 at halftime trying to keep that streak going third quarter Pacers now up eight Pascal seaka to halberton Haliburton three all up in your grill 21 points eight boards eight

Assists Indiana up 7564 later Andrew NIMH hard comes away with the steel to SE yakum with the hammer 22 and 11 Pacers with going to win ruin the Lakers win streak are we does that conclude the kissing first of all how’s your how’s your KN it’s great I mean did you did

You just cut it or did you actually Bru it no I didn’t the left one was bleeding the right one I fell on it twice and then I step back and I heard a little bit more but it’s fine just it’ll be fine need to get

Sleep just Dante ask him the way he put those Two Shots behind him missed to come back and have the the confidence in that last amazing and that’s speaks uh Trust of our team uh uh we know they’re going to dou with me and Kai a lot of

Times uh so that’s the trust trust we have uh the whole team so that shows uh that our team is is great I mean we’re having fun out there I think we play terrible today and we still got the win so outside of Kai Kai was amazing uh

Well I think we missed a lot of open shots and we still got a win which is amazing when when Kyrie goes for that transition pull up three-pointer you know do you do you expect that to go in every time it it feels like it nearly

Does I mean if you can watch again watch my face it’ll tell you everything cuz that was nasty Luka um the season might have not started amazingly for you guys but LLY you’ve been in a great form You’ve Won I think 10 of the last 11 what changed

Recently that makes you um seem stronger and get more wins I think we’re just playing great team basketball uh you know we made some moves at the trade that line I think our defense is getting better better every game and we just having fun out there today was a rough

Game for us uh but to win backto back games in sa uh it’s it’s difficult and I think we did a great job with that Luka can you talk about you know where your team at right now is trying to you know move up the charts and how how

Competitive it is right now in the NBA Western Conference and and what do you guys got to do to stay consistent uh yeah I mean you see the standings in the Western Conference it’s unbelievable right now and we just got to like always say you got to go game by

Game U and just stay stay aggressive play with the same energy and just go game by game I wondered if uh being in Sacramento last four days if any part of you ever thought back to the fact that you and Kyrie played your first game

Here together oh and uh just how far you guys have come since then yeah I forgot about that one that is true uh I think a long long way you know as I said this training camp where we had you know we got some practicing together uh would be

Way easier for us to to function better and I think it shows especially now I I think we’re both happy and we’re both doing some good things on the floor and we have great teammates so I think this team is special is the next year of you

Guys together going to be even better oh what is the next year of you two together what’s what’s what’s in store we’ll see that’s future man we talking about present here so what’s your thought you know having Services of Daniel Gord and uh PJ Washington seem like they’ve been

Really helping you up amazing like I said you know uh they don’t care they don’t ever complain uh they just play they just play hard they hustle every every every play and it’s just amazing to plays with those to play with those two guys just dep it defensively that they

Could put you on your heels and make you tight offensively because you know you can’t afford mistakes because you can’t stop them and because of that reality I think Shannon that is what makes them a threat I don’t think they’re winning the West understand I really really don’t

But in the same breath during the seven game winning streak that they had you know listen they they beat they beat Phoenix if I remember correctly they beat Oklahoma City if I remember correctly they’ve beaten Minnesota earlier this year it’s a regular season game and I get that but you see some of

The elite teams within the Western Conference Dallas has beaten them and so I look at it from that perspective and I say to myself if Kyrie and Luca are clicking those other brothers are making their contributions Derek Lively who K KP brought up he’s been a big time

Acquisition for them big time guy for them I’m looking at them and I’m saying could they be a threat hell yes they could be a threat who who if we do using that logic the Lakers have beating Phoenix the Lakers have beating OKC the Lakers are being but but we look at the

Lakers and we say to ourselves excuse me they can’t really shoot the basketball that’s what we’re lamenting about them they don’t have Jared vanderbild on the defensive side of the ball so they’ve been compromised in that regard as well and cam reddish and so when you’re looking at it from that perspective

That’s what we’re saying about the Lakers when we look at Dallas the last thing we’re concerned about is their ability to score and shoot the basketball could they score the ball could they score it last year not really not as much so so so LCA no they had some injuries last year they

Weren’t healthy that that that play the roow they had injuries this is this is not the this is not the same team Shannon and and and look you know what else matter is that coach that’s walking up and down that sideline Jason J kid knows how to put these guys in position

To be successful and just think about it now the West has gotten better but Luca has proven that he actually could take a team to the Western Conference Finals he did it what two years ago with jayen Bronson he got a healthy Kyrie Irving and engag Kyrie Irving no one in the

World has ever questioned how great Kyrie Irvin is Stephen AER tell you this because he’s alluded to it how box office this young man is we just be want to know when is he going to show up to work Kyrie Irving has showed up to work Kyrie Irving has been committed to the

Dallas Mavericks that is a dangerous Duo to mess with and you can ask anybody in the Western Conference if they want to see those two guys in the seven game series not saying that they’re going to not uh that they can’t put up a game plan to beat him but that Scouting

Report is going to be hard as hell and it’s going to be a tough out clutch record clutch Record La within five points last five minutes Dallas Mavericks 17-6 this year best clutch record in the NBA right now Kyrie Irving Luca Dona combined shooting 50% on clutch field throws field goals 48% on

Three-pointers 88% on free throws this is who they are can’t ignore that no can’t ignore that so you want a b part where they going how far they going that’s bet you I tell you this I tell you this I I tell you this we already

Got a bet on the table I tell you this though I tell you this much I got more trust in the Dallas merss did I do the Los Angeles Lakers right now I tell you that well that a saying much I mean come on you should

Be should be say for you I got I got I got the Lakers going far that what you mean that ain’t saying much I said I got a lot I got and I said I got more trust in the Mavericks than than I do in the Lakers you very

Untrusting person though so that don’t say much see that’s what I by that hello for on got more come on for for hey Z wante for for for for for for

FIRST TAKE | “Luka Doncic is the best CENTER in the NBA!” – Stephen A. impressed by Mavs beat Kings