Jason Kidd was looking for answers Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon, superstar Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks suffered their first loss in the NBA's post-All-Star Game portion with a brutal road loss to the Indiana Pacers in a bit of interconference basketball action. . Doncic had his usual impressive performance with 33 points, six rebounds, and six assists in the loss, but Dallas' overall offense did not perform as well as it usually does.
After the game, Mavericks head coach and former NBA Hall of Fame point guard Jason Kidd said: one hundred percent He was honest about what went wrong in the Mavericks loss.
“We couldn't just throw it in the ocean. We had some bad shots that took some of our energy away. Let's learn from that. We'll look at this and be better tomorrow,” Kidd said. said Grant Afseth of DallasBasketball.com on X (the social media platform formerly known as Twitter).
In 2014, the 111 points the Mavericks scored Sunday in Indiana might have been enough to win the game, but it's 2024 and modern teams typically have You need to reach the mark of 120 points. I feel good about their chances of winning.
Oddly enough, that mark hasn't been much of an issue this year, but Dallas' role players other than Doncic and Kyrie Irving struggled mightily en route to Sunday's loss.
Dallas' next game is a road game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday.
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Jackson Stone is a senior at Mercer University from Atlanta who plans to graduate with a bachelor's degree in communications. A lifelong sports enthusiast, Jackson is an avid fan of all Atlanta teams. He will join Clutch Point in 2023.
