The NBA calendar seems to be more and more imposed by American television channels and, for Dallas, it will lead to a very complicated back-to-back. Because the Mavericks concluded last night’s program against the Bucks, with a match starting at 9:00 p.m. in Texas, and they will now have to fly to face the Bulls, with a match starting at 7:00 p.m. Illinois.
In fact, Luka Doncic and his comrades will therefore arrive at their hotel in Chicago (if all goes well) around three in the morning, and they will have very little time to sleep, before preparing for the next match…
The Slovenian does not know if he will take part in this meeting on the floor of the Bulls.
“We can only focus on tonight, even though we would like it to be baseball, so that we can cut the team in half and send part of it to Chicago” jokes Jason Kidd. ” But that is not possible. They still have to study it because it’s not fair. I understand that television has priority. She pays the bills. But we could have at least played at 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. (against the Bucks, instead of 9:00 p.m.). »
The coach recalls that an unspoken rule in the NBA wanted there to always be at least 10:30 p.m. between the start of two consecutive games, for the same team. In this case, there are thus only 22 hours, with a journey of 1,300 kilometers to be done by plane in the middle. “I imagine they tore this page” laughs the coach.
“We are very lucky to have Luka and yes, the matches on national television are essential”he concludes. “We have one of the best players in the world. But I don’t know if it helps to play at 9 p.m. and then that early the next day in Chicago. This could have been fixed, or better handled, but it is not. But we’re not going to complain or say it’s unfair. We are going to go and play the matches”. And complain a little.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Luka Doncic | 23 | 36.8 | 50.3 | 34.8 | 72.4 | 0.8 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 32.9 |
| Christian Wood | 21 | 26.1 | 56.2 | 40.6 | 68.5 | 1.2 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 16.7 |
| Spencer Dinwiddie | 24 | 31.5 | 45.7 | 40.9 | 83.6 | 0.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 16.3 |
| Tim Hardaway Jr. | 23 | 25.2 | 37.3 | 37.4 | 82.5 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 13.3 |
| Tyler Dorsey | 1 | 4.3 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 |
| Dorian Finney Smith | 24 | 32.8 | 41.2 | 34.1 | 73.7 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 8.9 |
| Josh Green | 24 | 20.1 | 58.2 | 44.4 | 69.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 7.0 |
| Maxi Kléber | 20 | 25.2 | 48.4 | 35.1 | 78.6 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 6.1 |
| Dwight Powell | 21 | 17.3 | 70.1 | 0.0 | 67.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 5.9 |
| Reggie Bullock | 23 | 26.9 | 29.7 | 27.6 | 66.7 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2.3 | 4.7 |
| Javale Mcgee | 16 | 8.8 | 58.7 | 0.0 | 55.0 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 4.1 |
| Davis Bertans | 9 | 7.1 | 37.5 | 42.1 | 75.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 3.2 |
| jade hardy | 5 | 3.8 | 40.0 | 20.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
| Mckinley Wright Iv | 1 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Frank Ntilikina | 7 | 5.6 | 36.4 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 1.3 |
| Facundo Campazzo | 8 | 6.5 | 23.1 | 27.3 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.3 |
| Theo Pinson | 7 | 3.4 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
