How can the Mavericks ensure a Game 6 win vs. Thunder? | No Cap Room

Yahoo Sports Senior NBA writer Dan Devine and senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer talk about the Mavs vs. Thunder matchup and what both teams need to do to win. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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The Mavericks, the feet of the Thunder 104 92 when the series flipped back to Dallas and PJ Washington was still doing PJ Washington breakout things and Dallas had gone up to one without Kyrie really having an inferno scoring situation like he was doing in all the second half against the Clippers.

It wasn’t like Yok figured out the Timberwolves defense level of like, I feel confident that Dallas can win this thing in six, but I just felt more confident that Dallas could win the series in six than OKC when Derek Jones Junior makes three threes, it’s not that simple, but that’s incredible amount of found money in a series that’s been an absolute dogfight and every inch that Luka do can free himself from Lo do or Cason Wallace or whoever has been a massive win.

So if you get nine points unexpectedly from Derek Jones, those are just, those are big, big points to me.

Absolutely.

And they got more than that, you know, I mean, like it’s, you’re, you’re right to say it’s not as simple as our other guys make shots there.

Other guys don’t we win the series?

But it’s also not, not that simple to a certain extent.

It’s like we are going to funnel the ball to these guys and say, if you PJ Washington guy who’s never been this deep in the playoffs before, if you’re gonna make five threes, we’re gonna lose Derek Jones Junior.

You are a guy who is, you know, uh, an athlete and a transition guy and an offensive rebound getter if you make three or four threes while we tip our cap, but we’re not gonna be, we can’t let Luca and Kyrie destroy us.

And that is what has happened for the most part.

Like when you know, Derek Jones junior, I think it was, he wound up with seven or 19 last night on seven of nine, shooting three for five from the corners was perfect in the first half.

Like that’s how you get in…


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