Jason Kidd and Luka Doncic clears the air after Mavericks loss to…
The Cleveland Cavaliers made quick work of the Dallas Mavericks in their lone stop at the American Airlines Center. Cleveland looked every bit a team near the top of the standings in the Eastern Conference, jumping out to an early lead and never looking back. Meanwhile, Dallas continues to sputter, despite making in-game adjustments. With the 105-90 loss, the Mavericks fall back to .500.
Luka Doncic
“I think it was a little bit of both. They’re a really good team. They have two 7-footers in the paint which is tough to get to the paint. They have [Lamar] Stevens who is strong and big. And then on the offense, they have Darius [Garland] and [Donovan] Mitchell, they’re going to do their own thing. They have a pretty big team, a great team.”
“We will figure out tomorrow what we’re going to do about defense. We just didn’t guard and then our offense was static. We missed a bunch of layups too, especially me. I have to do way better than this. And we just have to bounce back.
Jason Kidd and Luka Doncic clears the air after Mavericks loss to…
“He’s a great shooter. He’s very quick and athletic. He can penetrate the defense obviously. He can shoot. He’s a complete player. Cleveland, when they traded for him, you can see it (see him score). They’re winning games a lot and they have an amazing team. He’s that guy you know.”
“Obviously, on the defensive end he’s one of our better defenders, so we miss him out there. On the defense end he can rebound. And on offense he can shoot and space the floor. We really miss him.”
Jason Kidd
“Everything was on the board. We got off to a slow start. At one point, we were only down five – I think it was 30-24. We couldn’t score, but I thought C-Wood [Christian Wood] got us going there. Then we talked about, at halftime, who could help slow down [Donovan] Mitchell. We looked at Reggie [Bullock]. Reggie had another good game in the first half for us. Then we started to talk about, you know, is there a way we could get C-Wood to start [so he could] get us some points, and he got us off to a good start in the third. Again, we couldn’t stop them. They are a good team. They are a really good team.”
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“He can stretch the floor. When you look at Maxi and the things that Maxi can do with stretching the floor – their two bigs, Luka has to beat [Lamar] Stevens and then he has to deal with [the bigs] at the rim. So, with being able to have C-Wood on the floor, his ability to shoot, catch and drive, it helped us there in that first quarter and then helped us in the third.”
“Yeah, I think it was what you just said: breakdowns. We just couldn’t get to the cutter fast enough. So, we’ll look at the tape and see where the mistakes were taking place. We’ll work on them and get better.”
