National Basketball Associations (NBA) club Dallas “Mavericks“The first round of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs was played on Saturday, in which the unit beat Los Angeles.”Clippers“command.
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The Mavericks defeated last year’s play-off opponents 113: 103 (33:30, 27:25, 26:25, 27:23)
Kristaps Porziņģis spent 36 minutes on the court, in which he scored 14 points (3/8 two-point shots, 1/5 three-point shots, 5/6 penalty shots), collected four rebounds and from time to time effectively scored and blocked the opponent’s shot. Most of the game was covered by two-time NBA defender Kavai Lenard.
Liepāja quickly hit two jumps at the start of the game, helping the Dallas team to gain an 11-point lead. The guest breakthrough was halted by the Clippers leader Coffee Lenards, who scored 13 points during the quarter, breaking the deficit to 33:30.
When Luk Dončič rested, Porziņģis and the “Mavericks” team did not succeed in the attack. Soon the Clippers equalized, but Dončičs helped the Dallas team reach the score 60:53 after returning to the field, scoring their 24th point.
Porziņģis’ misfortune continued in the second half, with the Latvian basketball player unsuccessfully attacking Kavai Lenard and Markus Morris, who successfully disarmed Porziņģis. The game itself was tense until the end of the regular time, during which the Liepaja resident rehabilitated. Less than two minutes before the end of the match, Porziņģis scored two free throws (103: 100), which he took, but at the start of the last minute of the game, the Dallas team played the “Clippers” traps, Porziņģis hit the ball in the basket (107: 102).
Luka Dončičs scored 31 points, 11 assists and ten rebounds, while Tim Hardave the junior scored 21 points. In the losing ranks Lenard scored 26 points, but Paul George was at 23 points.
The team will play the second game of the series on Tuesday.
Last year, in an emotional series with a score of 4-2, the “Clippers” team won, defeating the Dalas in the last two games in a row. Porziņģis collected two technical notes in the first game, about which he was expelled from the match, but after the third game he no longer went on the field due to a meniscus injury to his right knee.
