The Mavericks will need more out of Kyrie Irving to compete with Celtics | No Cap Room

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer and Senior NBA writer Dan Devine discuss what the Dallas Mavericks need out of Kyrie Irving after his subpar Game 1 performance in order to be competitive against the Boston Celtics. 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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And it was definitely not a night for Kyrie.

He was oh of five from distance six of 19 overall.

I mean, I don’t think it was the Boston crowd that got him that’s gonna be uh discussion and discourse and whatever.

But I mean, he, he seemed really at ease and calm and relaxed in the postgame availability here.

It’s one game and he said something to the effect of, you know, I got a lot of good looks and this didn’t go and that’s also I think accurate.

I don’t think he had, like, I remember at some point early in the fourth, we started messaging and slack with our team here about like angles we were all gonna be pursuing and one of them was, of course, Kyrie’s bad night and like, I remember thinking it doesn’t feel like he played bad.

There’s one real off pass from the wing up top that just like trickled out of bounds.

I think it was to lively.

They just had a miscommunication there that travel we talked about.

But yeah, he got, I thought relatively good looks.

He hit some like ridiculous, gorgeous Kyrie sidestep, fadeaway stuff, but they’re just going to need more from him to win these games.

That’s just the bottom line for all the praise he’s gotten along the road to this point.

He needs to continue to play to be worth receiving more of that praise or else Dallas just does not have a shot and, and specifically, Dallas does not have shot creators, right?

And that’s kind of the, the, the ethos of the team, the identity of the team that as it’s been constructed is K uh Luca and Kyrie create everything.

And then you’ve got guys who can eat off of that creation, you’ve got lob threats, they can finish.

You’ve got, um you know, corner three point shooters who can, you can catch and shoot.

You’ve got, uh uh you know, a couple…

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Publish date : 2024-06-07 07:26:25

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