Are Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks in Trouble?

NBA analysts Tim Legler and Adam Mares dig into the most interesting topics from all around the league, including a review of the Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz game last night that saw the Mavs lose their 4th straight game. They also talk with NBA insider Marc Stein about the Cleveland Cavaliers win streak, the injuries in the NBA, and the high three point output happening so far this year.

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00:00 – Intro
01:34 – What happened in Mavericks vs Jazz game with Marc Stein
10:28 – Will this be a wake up call for the Mavs?
14:44 – The Cavaliers are 13-0, why don’t they get more respect?
24:10 – Why are teams shooting so many 3 pointers now?
57:15 – Weekend NBA games to look forward to

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23 comments

  2. I can’t even defend Luka on that last play. He’s better than that I mean cmon wtf was that. Offensively he had his best performance so far.

  3. Major adjustments have to be made. This isn’t unsaveable, but its bad. Really bad. And it’s everyone but kyrie. Luka culprit number one.

  6. Luka is the most annoying superstar in the league. Dude is so talented, but he routinely acts like a child. The guy needs to learn some accountability. He needs to be some semblance of a leader, but he so far has been entirely incapable of even coming close to it.

  10. Honestly, Luka has never cared about the regular season. This attitude can cost you come to February-March but it's not in his DNA to try and win the 1st seed in the west. So you have to not worry too much about it. Two games under 500 it's NOVEMBER. …smh nothing to worry about

  11. Luka is burntt out. Playoff injuries, final, olympic team, and no training camp. Hes been awful to watch and selfish. He. should take some time recover get into shape and come back. Miss like 3/4 games and when he comes back team should establish roles.
    Mavs always start with Luka shooting alot and missing they end up going downThen they sub out starters except Luka.
    Instead they should look to sub luka in the 1st and have him start the 2nd. This is why klay especially gets cold.
    Then the team needs to decide is Luka going to take over scoring. in 3rd or 4th.
    They also need to establish the ball. going to thee hot hand and making sure luka,kyrie,and klay get volume
    The main issue is whenever. Luka is in he will out shoot eeveryone. Luka is also just not focused unless he has the. ball.

  16. i think draft would've been more realistic if it was 2 stars (CBA😂), picks 3-5 are non-star starters (sub 20ppg??), and the remaining picks are bench players around the league. As it is, both your teams are running the league 74-8+ lol.

    For me, I'd do:

    Stars: Jokic, Curry
    Starters: Chet, Derrick White, MPJ or OG
    Bench: Naz Reid, Payton Pritchard, Amen Thompson or Tari Eason

    Still pretty strong but with a snake draft, not as crazy.

  17. Kind of weird to go on a rant about how Luka’s offense has been hurting the team and not even acknowledging that he finally had a good shooting game against the Jazz. 37 pts @ 52%FG, 72% from 2, 7Reb/9assists. Some bad defensive plays throughout the game as well, although a fair amount of effort on defense too. He just seems to lose focus or decide to cheat off his man at really inopportune times.

    It’s also weird to talk about him getting his shot first when you’re such a devote of Curry who has averaged 6 assists (supposedly as a PG) and 18 shots @ 47% for his 24ppg career. Kind of weird how one guy gets nothing but love while you’re calling out the other one for many of the same tendencies (although much better team numbers and even a better defensive rating).

    But he finally carried that team who were missing 2 starters and both centers were struggling. Hopefully he’s turned a corner because they can’t win without him, but with pieces like Grimes and Naji plus Washington coming back, they could be ready to put a run together.

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