Dan Patrick Recaps The Mavericks Taking 1-0 Series Lead Against The Timberwolves | 5/23/24

Dan Patrick Recaps The Mavericks Taking 1-0 Series Lead Against The Timberwolves | 5/23/24

Mavericks beat the Timberwolves and they go up 1 in the series You Got Tonight Pacers at the Celtics game two for entertainment purposes only the Pacers are getting nine against the Celtics and despite the loss in game one according to DraftKings Timberwolves are still big favorites to advance to the NBA finals but last night you had Kyrie going off in the first half and you had Luca going off in the fourth quarter that was enough to and they did a lot of their damage in the paint which I’m surprised at because when you think of Minnesota best defensive team in the NBA you got the defensive player of the year you got basically three SF Footers inside and Dallas Dallas dominated in the paint last night surprised with that more on that game coming up more on the Pacers in the Celtics as well uh what do we have Satan for our poll question stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America the official trading cards of the program and this first brought to you by simply safe home security when you sign up for fast protect monitoring you get 20% off any new simplysafe system just visit simplysafe dan.com there’s no safe like simplysafe Paul just sent over one uh best vague excuse for losing a game quote it was just not our night quote uh we didn’t execute the way we wanted to or some of us didn’t want enough enough okay can you play Anthony Edwards after last night’s game Anthony Edwards the 22-year-old next Michael Jordan had this to say did you think that the high from game seven maybe kind of affected you guys coming in in it today at all yeah for sure I mean y’all can see it was a little a step a step behind everybody especially myself um Kyrie got a transition layup from I think we scored and he just outran me I was just exhausted man so yeah for sure um but we’ll be all right okay you may think that but don’t say that you’re 22 Kyrie after a made basket took the ball and went coast to coast and blew by Anthony Edwards that’s not a good excuse we ran out of energy we’re a little tired maybe what happen in Denver I get it game seven on the road at altitude but you were back home Dallas only needed six games to put away OKC I understand that you’re 10 years older or younger than k Irving don’t admit that that’s not a good excuse what are the other excuses we have there Sean uh it was just not our night just not our night that’s the best okay yeah to be fair we don’t have you know what we were just tired on the list we don’t have that but you rarely hear that one are are are athletes not allowed to be tired if you’re 22 Yeah I’m going to say no if if we’ve been praising you for your athleticism you’re the next Michael Jordan and then you tell me that Kyrie who’s 10 years older than you blew by you Coast to Coast I have a little bit of a like it could happen one time but then he said well we might be tired yes don’t we expect athletes to leave it all out there every single night uh yeah which would imply exhausting all of your uh physical abilities maybe he’s exhausted from EX costing all of his physical abilities correct okay yeah yeah just saying I don’t think you admit to that yeah I don’t know that you do either you’re too you are too young to do that but actually it’s probably worse to do it when you’re old when you’re aging and you’re like you know what we were just exhausted out there be like yeah cuz you’re too old okay imagine if any other player said this AKA KD Lebron oh there we go how how much would we be crushing them today you know maybe we’re just tired Maybe we’re just old feels like with Ant-Man the way he says something like it doesn’t sound as bad because he’s so entertaining when he’s delivering it working on his Kevin Hart delivery you know yeah if it’s like if some people say they’re exhausted it’s definitely worse than others like if ad was like man we were just exhausted be like oh my god dude shut up play the game you’re right yeah like I would have no patience for it whatsoever uh what other poll questions do we have today I I well you know now it’s the age of hey I’ll take all the blame somebody’s always taken the blame after the game and sometimes it’s the coach like Rick Carlow he’s got oh this on me and then Tyrese halberton goes no no I know what coach is trying to do you know so is coach saying we didn’t execute the way we wanted to tonight or is coach saying some of us didn’t want it enough o damn one of those feels more player worthy the other one or how about you know we just weren’t prepared oh that’s a coach that’s I didn’t do a good job preparing the guys I didn’t good job okay you’re fired this one’s on me yeah literally your only job is to prepare them for the game you’re fired that’s your job especially during football season you guys had seven days to do this it’s the worst anything else uh well with the SE the series up 10 who do you like to win now has that shifted at all well I like Dallas but I you know I it’s going to be a coin toss really I think it’s going seven games the thing that I was looking at there are a couple of things they scored in the paint which was really surprising um Dallas outscored Minnesota 10-3 in the final 3 and A2 minutes to pull out that win also the Mavericks outscored Minnesota 62-38 in the paint that’s [Music] [Applause] incredible of the day of the day St of the day St of the day this is the St of the day [Music] but Luca and Kyrie combined for 63 they scored in the paint and Ant-Man didn’t play great uh Minnesota didn’t play great and they only lost by three points I expect them to win game two but you know seeing the it didn’t feel like there was this sense of urgency that they had against Denver it’s almost like all right we’re at home we’ll win this game and then worry about the rest of the series and then all of a sudden Kyrie comes out and was unbelievable had 24 in the first half here is Kyrie after the game we’ve been able to figure out that onw punch um of just playing the point guard role playing that main scorer’s role and um just not lacking in other areas in the basketball game you know he can do other things and I can do other things other than scoring so when it’s his time to score it’s my time to play defense and get up in my guy and and contest shots and continue to do the little things to get us wins all right you know this could be one of those coming out parties for Kyrie because one of the most talented players ever played the game but we might look at him when it’s all said and done the way we do Aaron Rodgers they’ve kind of brought controversy they’ve brought attention they’ve got one title each now you can’t deny the talent with either one of these players but Aaron’s got one Super Bowl Kyrie’s got an NBA title and he hit the biggest shot he won the we he won the finals with the shot over Steph Curry but here’s a guy who’s never been First Team all NBA when you watch him sometimes I always go why didn’t he do that all the time or why doesn’t it work with other teams you know we know what happened in Cleveland he wanted it to be his team it was his team LeBron comes back now it’s not his team they win a title now he wants to have his team he goes to the young Boston Celtics it does not work out there uh Brooklyn he tried to create his own team him and KD didn’t work out there Dallas gets him for pennies on the dollar and all of a sudden he’s trying to figure out exactly how to make this work with Luca which is not easy because Luca ball dominant and Kyrie’s just trying to fill in the area there of what do you need me to do game to game and he’s done a wonderful job probably an underrated job I think we get caught up in his comments and therefore you know he’s probably turned off a lot of NBA fans I got to be fair to him when I watch him on the floor whether I like what he said off the floor I got to assess him in what I see and he’s played really really well and it’s been quiet All Quiet on the Western Front and now here they are three wins away from playing in the NBA finals and it might be one of those coming out parties again yes Marv do you think when Kyrie was young and he won the title and he’s maybe 24 years old he said I can go somewhere else and play with another Superstar and win do you think he got to the point where it’s like man this is harder than I thought and so now with Luca he’s like I can’t squander this opportunity because look how long it took me to get back even to the Conference Finals yeah I think that’s a fair assessment of it but you know I don’t know if we’ve ever had Kyrie on I don’t know him I’ve read articles about him but I don’t know what his mindset is I don’t know if basketball sometimes you’re so good at something that you don’t have to like Kyler Murray he was so good at football in high school they didn’t lose really good in college then all of a sudden you get to the pros and it’s like I’m talented but they’re talented too now now is when you have to work Kyrie’s been so talented what did he play eight or nine games at Duke and then he’s the number one draft pick uh and then it it looked like it came easy to him and then you win when you’re young and then all of a sudden you’re like I want my own team and then you to Boston that was a young nucleus there I mean imagine if Kyrie was able to keep it together with that Boston unito then he goes to Brooklyn he’s going to hook up with KD they’re going to create their own super team and that doesn’t work out and then all of a sudden it’s like he’s in no man’s land and Dallas is probably not his last stop but what he’s doing right now is really impressive and it should be recognized as being very impressive he plays when he when he’s on he does things nobody else does yes he it feels like this series is going to have one of two storylines play out either the Mavericks win and it’s like well hey look I mean if either one of those two guys gets hot you can’t stop that team or they’re going to lose and it’s going to be like well hey you can’t win it with just those two guys you need a third guy to step up it’s one of those two storylines is going to happen yes but I don’t believe that you need the third person I I think you need the fourth and fifth and sixth person you need a team and that’s the difference down you know if you look at Denver last year they had two and then they had three or four and then they didn’t have it this year and they weren’t a great team Dallas I think has a pretty good team I mean and and I say that you know with emphasis on team they have they have a group of players who seem to be playing really really well Minnesota though giv up the points in the pain when Rudy go this has not been a good postseason for Rudy Gober when it comes to you’re the defensive player of the year I am but it’s more of a team award which it is it is unless you’re on ball it’s me against you Gary pton or Jordan you know then I’m going to play defense on you I’m it’s not riant on somebody behind me because nobody was afraid of Bill cartright or Bill Winnington going to the hoop but when it’s on ball Defender it’s hard to find those guys but Rudy goar I mean I got to change my philosophy here at least for game two yeah Paulie you know I know goar didn’t have a big night and they lost he had I think 12 points and two blocks he may lead the league in we need a new stat discouragements Tim Hardaway Jr took it to the rim and saw goar there and just kept on dribbling to the left and that happens to wanyama sometimes oh I would say wanyama leads the league in discour yeah he’s he’s First Team all discouragement because people go in and go no thank you I’m discouraging you yes you are yes you are we need a new Step yes

Dan Patrick recaps the Dallas Mavericks taking a 1-0 series lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference Finals