GAME 3: POR (2-1) @ DAL (2-1) | 119-121 loss

[dirkfansince1998]

To sum it up...KP and Doncic can do no wrong and if they make mistakes we we blame the coach instead.
Wonder why no one was complaining in the first quarter. Team was coached by RC for the whole game. One not used challenge vs tons of mistakes from the players.
Of course RC can try to influence the game from the sideline but he cannot make a shot or freethrow himself. IF Porzingis and Luka make their freethrows the Mavs win the game. Wonder why that isn´t the topic right now.

Because Kristaps put up 32 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 blocks on 11/23 from the field (3/10 from 3 which isn't good, 7/10 from the line which again isn't good)

And Luka put up 29 points, 12 rebounds, 9 assists, and 3 steals on 8/23 (which isn't good). 


Together they combined for 61 points, 21 rebounds, 14 assists on 19/46. 

They were the entire reason why the Mavs were up big. Their efficiency wasn't the best, but it wasn't god awful. All the role players sans Curry disappeared after the first quarter. Maxi started the game with a 12 point effort on 4/5, and ended the game with 14 points on 5/10. 

THJ was 2/7, Brunson 1/6, Kleber 1/5 after the first quarter, DFS, 2/6. Justin Jackson 1/6.

Only Delon Wright, who puzzlingly never came back in the game after 9 minutes left in the 4th shot well with a 3/4 from the night. 

Luka and KP was the team tonight, and they missed some timely free throws for sure. But the Mavs wouldn't have been in a position to lose had any one of their role players showed up, and or if Carlisle played it better.

Both had a great 1st half and put up big numbers but both also played really bad in the 4th quarter. Both takes are not mutually exclusive. Overall they did not play bad and I would agree with you that in the big picture the role players not making open shots was the biggest reason for the loss.
Nevertheless I can point out that solely blaming RC is wrong when both franchise players had multiple opportunities to win the game. Some of them being as easy as simply making their FTs.
You guys are making a big story out of one potential mistake by RC (not using his challenge). If I start to count mistakes made by Luka and KP i probably won´t be finshed until tommorrow morning.