Dallas beat Atlanta 116-122 to break its losing streak of results that already lasted to 6 consecutive defeats. The Mavs survived themselves after a painful endgame and Luka Doncic clearly surpassed Bring young throughout the meeting.
It seems that the Mavs did not want to return to the victory. Inexplicable end of the game for the Texan team. Beyond the merits of Hawks in that final stretch, which there were, the key to Dallas’s near defeat was in his unfortunate way of closing the game.
Dallas took 15 ahead (96-111) with 3:47 left. The game seemed seen for sentence given the advantage on the scoreboard and how badly Atlanta is playing this season in the end of the game, but for the bad end the one offered today by Mavericks. Simply grotesque.
In 3 minutes and 5 seconds Atlanta endorsed a 16-4 partial to the team of Carlisle to get 112-115 with 42 seconds left on a triple by Trae Young. These sets can go, so far nothing abnormal, the really incredible thing is how the set came this time: Atlanta made 3 successful alley-oops in that time and Young put another basket under the basket! A true sneaker in the paint the visiting team when more attentive should be in defense.
But the last straw came when Young put the 114-117 with 25.7 seconds left, crossing the entire court bouncing without anyone even trying to defend him. He went through it like he was in training and went to the basket with no one around to prevent him from scoring. The hot flash of hot flashes, 25.7 seconds from the end!
Visitors were saved by a pat Kristaps Porzingis in the final stretch of the game and his success from free practice. But they would have well deserved to lose for their insane finish, a finale in which Trae Young was resurrected after a very poor performance all night.
Dallas won with 27 points, 14 assists and 8 rebounds from Luka Doncic, 24 points and 11 rebounds from Porzingis, who woke up in the second half (16 points and 9 rebounds after the break), and 22 points and 5 triples from Tim Hardaway Jr., while Josh Richardson he finished with 14 points because he shot poorly throughout the game, but worked very well on defense, doing a great job to stop Young, bolstered by Carlisle-designed defensive aids.
Dallas won a game that will not go down in history for its good game. He did it by balancing the fight for the rebound in the second half with the resurrection of Porzingis, limiting Trae Young’s game, showing himself very accurate from the personnel line (something that was revealed very important at the end of the game) and controlling the games very well. Turnovers, something that Atlanta did not do, which had already lost 10 balls at halftime.
Hawks’ best player by far was John Collins, author of 35 points and 12 rebounds, with 16 of 21 in the field goal, but we must not disdain the great game that was scored Kevin Huerter, active, accurate and generous throughout the night until he finished with 21 points and 10 assists.
Trae Young finished after his grand finale with 21 points and 9 assists. Young is so good that even on his worst days he can finally bring out his killer instincts. Danilo Gallinari He scored 19 points in 21 minutes – you can see that he is going to increase – and Clint Chapel he lowered his level in the second half to finish with 10 points, 14 rebounds and 3 blocks.
Both teams are negative. Atlanta is at 10-11 and Dallas is at 9-13.
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