Luka Dončić, Mavs eliminate CP3, Devin Booker & Suns in blowout Game 7 | NBA | UNDISPUTED

Luke and the Mavericks happen, you know, skip the old saying that you picked the wrong day to have a bad day at the office and they picked the worst day to have a hard time shooting the basketball and the Mavericks put it all together and we saw this . in the 6th

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where they got it going and luca got someone to go with him but when you get luca gold for 27 and you only score 27 as a team and then you get uh so clever gives you 21 in the first half jaylen brunson gives you 22 in the second half jumps that's an avalanche you can't overcome when you're three big shots they all had problems in the first half this

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ended in the first half you know when you're down on the third jump You're not going to come back from 30 points down in one situation like that um, but this was all about luca.

Luca has been special, he has been the best player, not many times has he entered a series and he is not the best player. that series and if you look at what he's done, jump in his brief career in elimination games against two of the all-time great defensemen, kawhi and pg, he got 38 99, he got 46, 7 and 14 in the game from the sixth game against mikael bridges, who was in the race for defensive player of the year he scored 33 11 and 8. Also Jay Crowder yesterday 35 10 and four in three quarters was going to have another elimination game. He averages 30 out of 39, basically 39 and a half points per game.

Well, this is the first year he's won a playoff series, but if you think about it, if he had had someone to accompany him in those situations, if he had maybe a Jalen Brunson giving him this opportunity, who knows what would have happened, but Skep Lucas was Luca was the best player in this series and if you notice things change with everyone you meet, Lucas said after being gay, after that game five skill, he said yeah, everyone has a lot to talk about when you're winning, okay, jason kidd has done an amazing job. skip, that's not to take anything away from rick carlisle, but maybe they just needed a different voice because what they were able to do to chris paul skip, we haven't seen anyone do this to chris paul every time luca put him in the pick-and . -roll attacked him skip jaylen brunson might be shorter than chris paul attacked him they lifted him 94 feet the pelicans took us to something let's try to lift him 94 feet let's try to weigh him bullock picked him up 94 feet Fenny Smith lifted him 94 feet so now he jumps no You have a chance to rest.

We talked about that. Jump, we haven't seen Chris Paul play back-to-back bad games. The first two games were sensational. He played poorly in the third game. skipped now we haven't seen him now we know he will recover play badly fourth game well you know, hey chris paul is not going to play the bad ones three games in a row play badly there is no skill there is no possible way chris paul is going to put together four bad games, he is well, he had two days off in between because all these games were back to back, you know, every other day, he skips five bad games, they wore him down, but this was all about luca.

Luca was the best. player in the series jumps and led it led in everything himself block shots points rebounds three assists steal he did it all he almost had a jump in the series lebron is the best he was the best player on the court and he showed it throughout the series This look, I get it, yeah, the defensive picture picked the wrong day to have a bad Game 7 elimination game on your home court, but look, I don't know if they would have played even better if Luke is playing like that and he gets. Someone to accept it because Kim was what he liked in the first half, he only missed like three shots.

Lucas understands so don't be surprised if you see him playing in the final. You really choose Dallas, don't worry about who our piggy is. We have to choose yet, but if we're going to get some guy, oh you can't, you're not a warrior fan, okay, they'll beat your team, um, but I love Luca, although we'll get there when we get there. We'll cross that burning bridge when we get to it, okay, my truck, this NBA playoff season has been a series of I've never seen that and I've never seen that and I've definitely never seen that last night because I've never seen that you'd I bet a thousand boxes of dew that that wouldn't have happened if you had given me I don't even know what the end result was but if you had given me phoenix plus 30 you know I would have bet a million cases on that and it wouldn't have worked because that happened and I want to remind everyone before we continue.

Those same Phoenix Suns won the West by eight games. Those same Phoenix Suns that ended up in Memphis. Those same Phoenix Suns. They were 11 games better than Miami, which won the East. Think they destroyed the field during the regular season. You mentioned Michael Bridges. He was the runner-up for defensive player of the year. I thought Devin Booker deserved better in the MVP voting, but he did. because of chris paul's magical final year of his career that undermined

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's momentum in the mvp and i have never seen anything like the late career resurgence i started seeing in chris paul a year ago against my Clippers at that time in the sixth game.

In what was then the basic center, Chris Paul scored 41 points in that game, including 27 basically in the fourth quarter and a quarter of a quarter. 27 points. I had never seen such a shot, especially from the god point that would become the two gods and then us. I saw a sixth game this year at his old stomping grounds in New Orleans in which he apologized, I'm drowning in his 14 shots, it's impossible, he was about to turn 37 and he scored 14 of 14 and scored 33 points. and even in the second game that put them up 2-0 in this series he scored 28 points and looked like both gods.

He seemed invincible and they seemed invincible and that night that game ended with the phoenix still overwhelmed and exhausted. crowd in the arena of footprints singing sons in four sons in four and I'm like maybe you know maybe and I think you were there too like oh now they're going to go home okay so they go home and win but no I didn't win as impressively as Phoenix won in Phoenix. I'm going to remind everyone that in the three games prior to last night in Phoenix, Phoenix won by an average of 19 points, get that into your heads and television will get 19 points per game. they won for the first three games, what was this?

What happened and your man luca luca luca luca luz luca coming into this series last night he had shot 30 percent from the three point line, that's good, help me, Shannon, that was 16 of 54. Boy, that's a lot of missed threes. 30 was shooting after a very poor shooting game that they actually won in Dallas despite his 11 of 26 from the floor, that's a good no and two of eight of three no and nine of. 14 from the free throw line no and he comes out and does uh let's show these I'm going to show the first three shots because this was the whole game here the game is about to end right here I think whether or not because in the first he flips the switch on ayton and takes him to the lane and says i'm going to play with you and i'm just going to step back and walk away at the free throw line and he does nothing, nothing but net and then he flips the switch to guess who the seven footer is and he says I got this I'll step back here in the corner and there's a three and then he says oh I've got eight and again though that came back he just went out and held it and another step back three and suddenly it's eight minus three and you thought it was okay because I'm thinking, well, that's not their story, so the story would say it's not going to go on like this.

He made six of 11 threes, which by his standards was fire, but the point is that I felt like those first three shots had just made the phoenix come in and all of a sudden I tweeted that I can't recognize the phoenix's

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because they were lifeless. . unprepared they were without urgency they were without energy and the point god it seemed as if he had been shot it seemed that he was not going to shoot because it seemed that after turning 37 remember what happened he turned 37 and suddenly he plays five games in a row and in those last five he averaged nine points, three rebounds and five assists with four turnovers per game, well, the problem was that someone told him he was thirty-seven, well, it wasn't like that, it was a big blow because if no one ever told you your age, how old would you be?

It was like they told Chris Paul that you're 37. He's like, Damn, I'm not supposed to play like that and he hasn't played like that since he hasn't and yet it's not like that. that he was shooting poorly, he just wasn't shooting well because he looks at those five games, he shot 18 of 36, well that's half, that's 50, the problem was his shots per game dropped to just seven shots per game from three . in the last five games he shot eight of 16. Well that's 50, that's pretty good except it degenerated into only three three point attempts per game and I want to remember the fact that last night it wasn't until the fourth quarter when chris paul came out in a spectacular game where they were losing by 40 odd points and he actually made all three of his shots in the fourth quarter when the game was completely out of control, yeah, okay, and he scores three and he scores seven of his nine points in the last quarter, what if Monty had said enough was enough and left him out because Dallas sat all their starters, starting with Luca throughout the quarter, only Brunson played well, so Chris against the reserves scored seven of his nine points in the fourth quarter? the fourth quarter, are you kidding me?

Yeah, jump, he was bad. In the last five games you could barely recognize him. Now they were talking about how you started hearing things about him having a quad injury. Jump, I don't want to hear that. Really, really not, and I'm not saying he doesn't have a quad injury. Okay, well, let me say that all my Phoenix sources, no one heard anything about any quad injury and me to the last. I'm doing pretty well with my eye exam. ESPN's Dave Mcmenamin reported that sources told him there is a quadriceps injury, but I'm doing pretty well with my exam.

And you? Yes, did you see any indication? I couldn't see it. sorry and no one said he was never listed on the injury list obviously i just can't understand how it feels a written excuse for me that's what it seems to me jump but you mentioned luca isn't a great shooter three points, but you know, jump. If that three ball falls with his ability to get to the rim it's like you actually have his mercy, there's nothing you can do because there's no one. We've seen Kawhi, we've seen Paul George, we've seen some elite defenders who can't. prevent this man from getting where he wants to go, so if those three balls start to fall, I agree, it's over, it's over for you and it seemed like the sons agreed with you, it seemed like he made his first three and They were looking at each one. another one like well we're done yeah we have no choice no they didn't touch anything but the net so they didn't touch the rim and he and he started early he started looking around he started smiling he started laugh at the crowd, said something, the other. night, I think it was Friday night, he said, talk now, he shot and they called and Phoenix called a timeout and looked at Devin Booker, talk now and listen, I gotta tell you I'm old school about this, he laughs at laughter of his opponents, he is laughing out loud.

Shannon Sharp back then wouldn't have loved it if he didn't, you get it, but the point is, what I can't take away from Luka Doncic is that he backs it up adamantly, yeah, and when he backs it up. in the mono amano lane it's hard to argue with that because the losing team has to say well, we can't counterattack because you're beating us on the scoreboard and in the lane, but if I get it, I place my bet, it jumps if I put my best defender let's say I'm playing football and you have a receiver and I have my best corner and he is touching my burning my best corner, what am I going to do?

What can I do as a defensive coordinator? The head coach says that he is my best boy, that is the guy that was in the defensive game of your containment, that is Michael Bridges, he has been the second after Marcus Smart and he is devouring him as if he were a child, as if he was just a role player, like he was in the back of the bench jay crowder it doesn't matter deandre ayton

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it didn't matter who they skipped I mean so I'm looking so what are you supposed to do? This is what I admired most about last night, Luca is finally finding the balance between them and me me and them it's a difficult balance to find it takes all the big guys, it took Jordan a long time to figure out how to get them involved because you can't do it one against five in every game. throughout the game, so he looks at what he did last night.

He managed to give Jalen Brunson 19 shots, which is what Luca took, he took 19 shots and Brunson gave you 24 and he managed to give Dinwiddie 15 shots and then clever he goes crazy and scores five of seven. triples and he gives you 30 points along with lucas 35. when you have those three like that, they will blow you out of your spot and they did it well, let's look back now at what happened at a critical moment. 826 remained in the third quarter. and all of a sudden, monty williams throws deandre ayton and according to the people I talked to, they got so bad on the bench that other players on the bench had to hold them down and break away and I talked to our friend.

Lil Wayne, who was on the opposite side of the court and said whether she looked like him or not, I don't think she could hear him, but she was probably reading thelips, it seemed like Monty said something to Ayden about you abandoning us and I don't doubt it for a second. because the problem with deandre ayton whose contract is still up for grabs, he's probably still seeing that they didn't give them the right max but his engine it runs low it never gets hot and the problem is in the 7th game you need your big man to impose his will from the start yeah so I'm going to give him equal share of the blame because Monty messed with him and then when Monty was asked about it after the game, he simply said it was an internal period, end of comment.

I'm not going to talk about it, yeah, but I did, yeah, but I saw his ad for the rest of the game and I told him I chose to do that. He told her throughout the rest of the game, not that it was a game. at that time but he didn't even let him see the light of the playoffs kevin, I mean he had five shots, what the hell is he supposed to first of all feel insulted because they said, you know what we're going to leave? white power play, raise your head, should be an insult, should, should put up janice type numbers against this cat, four rebounds, come on man, he jumps you seven feet high and you want to get maxed out now, bro, come on, come on , come. the day and that was a thanksgiving, you can't have everything it's like a book cp3 nda like everyone went on vacation at the same time and someone had to stay in the office, all us senior executives can't go and go out or go on vacation at a time I mean boo michael bridges three out of eleven two or nine by jay crowder two or five three or fourteen book four out of eight let me go okay and I'm glad you mentioned devon booker because I have tried and done everything everything possible to support him in the program to make him a superstar and he simply cannot qualify because this is completely unacceptable because in the end he is the shooter, he is the scorer, they are going to go the way he goes.

As for making three balls, not that it's a great triple, but making jump shots, yeah, and making three of 14 and oh, four of three in a game seven at your house, it's just not acceptable and Chris was horrible and it was horrible and Ayton, you could argue it's even worse, but the point is that Devin Booker talked before the game about us being locked in, blah, blah, blah, well you gotta prove that you gotta play, yeah, just you have to go play. Oh, we're in lockdown, so I guess. the other team says, oh my god, we don't have a chance, they locked themselves in.

Luca came out, they went up. Look jason, there's one thing I can say about this skill, even when they lost the first two games. jay is a kid like we're coming home. Now he did it, let's see what we get and he made them play. I don't know how he did it, but this is the same team that barely played defense the last three four years. I agree and he got it to block. In gratitude for mentioning that, I tweeted last night that the real MVP of the Dallas Mavericks is Jason Kidd because I'm going to remind you that Lucas showed up completely out of shape to start the season.

You didn't like it, no, they had problems. to the 17th and 18th on January 1st, think about that when the clock now the calendar turned, it was 17th and 18th and all of a sudden Jason Kidd's message started coming in, we've got to have a new defensive backbone and he started doing For the Mavericks, what the Udoka email did for the Celtics gave them some character, some toughness, some backbone, and suddenly they were playing. I'm just going to say, this playoff caliber defense, right, they've never played before and yet they remember afterwards. second game, the big story was that all we do is hunt luca, well they did, but i have to give luca credit here too.

He finally figured out how to do it, like Jason Kidd said last night, participate in the defense, well he participated, yeah, I was watching him closely, heh. a lot of times last night he was just playing in kind of a weird one-man zone where he would just fade and fall to the middle, but he was trying to stay out of harm's way where on the perimeter they would just pick him off and get him right where they want on Booker and then Booker i would cook it and he was basically saying luca just don't let them beat your opening move yeah if they don't beat you with the opening move if they had to go to a second move we're in for hell guys remember back in 2011 yeah The Mavericks were the defensive-based team.

Look at Stevenson. Look at Marion. Look at the boss. Tyson Chandler. So now put in Reggie Bullock. Now put Benny Smith on. They are now. in the starting lineup, yes, they can shoot the ball, but they can also defend because you will need the defender to jump up to help with luca because it seems like you said they were going to get luca, the lakers, the last two years. I want luca we're looking for luca lucas say you know what since everyone's hunting me damn it, but I'm going to get myself a gun, I'm going to start hunting you too, so now lucas will hunt lebron, he'll hunt giannis.

He'll hunt Chris Paul, he'll hunt anybody like, oh, everyone wants to hunt me, but they know I have a chance to get the ball. He also skips me when he plays like that, like you said, it's a very fine line because sometimes he dominates two balls. central and then nobody, everyone else stood there saying, okay, do your thing, luca, but last night, if you let them play like that, luca gives you 27 and then he gives you 21. and then in the second half, brunson goes and it gives you 22. Someone is going to have fun beating this team well and this is what impressed me: the most reggie block can turn out the lights on any given night.

He was one of four out of three. We know that Finney Smith can turn off all the lights in the building, esp. at home and he was one of the three, right, and we know Cleva can go crazy shooting threes in the corners like PJ Tucker, he took one and made it, but only one, so those guys didn't hurt, that must be pretty terrifying for the Golden. state warriors who did that to Phoenix without those three going for the rocks, they are like a mat, they are a kind of mirror phoenix because if you excuse me, uh, the warriors because if you look at the way they play, they jump, they play with three guard they play luca finney smith is really a guard they list him as a four but he's actually a guard yeah Bullock you basically have to play four because look at Jalen Brunson so now all they want to do It's going up and down the court.

It's also like Golden State, so who's going to take it and make three? That's what it's going to come down to because Luke is getting in the lane. I don't care who they put on him. You better keep Draymond out of foul trouble, but I'm thinking they're probably going to start Draymond. I wouldn't probably start with clay, but I don't think clay is big enough. He's too big for clay. He's too big for clay. And clay has not skipped injuries. robbing Clay of much of his side witness, much of his ducking ability, yes, he'll be Draymond and he's sneaky enough to match him in his own awkward awkward way, but he better not get into foul trouble, wow for 50.

What I know is that last night, while I was tweeting this, the visiting team, the Dallas Mavericks, basically blew the sun in their own building, that's what they did, they blew the sun, yeah, and it was a debacle of a disaster, I don't know if I want to say. Game 7, I'm trying to think, when have I ever seen a game 7 where the road team basically destroyed the home team? I can't remember the games because you know the crowd got in, the crowd was never in the in gotti I had a chance to get in the game because by the time everyone completed it and halfway through the first and at the end of the first I was 27- 20 and the next thing you know it's 30-10 in the second quarter, the game is more than 10 in the second quarter, how could it be 30-10?

You only get 10 points in 12 minutes, how can you have 27 in a half and he luca has 27 points that has never happened before? Way to go, you know it's over, congratulations, thanks for watching, you can. Subscribe here to get the latest from the show and be sure to check out more of

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