The Magic ended Luka Doncic’s streak

Luka Doncic won’t beat Wilt Chamberlain. His streak of 30 or more games ended last night on the Magic floor. The conductor of the Mavs had to settle for 24 points scored after nine outings with at least 30 points (31 even) to start the season. Wilt Chamberlain had exceeded this mark 23 times at the start of the 1962/1963 season. A record that should remain valid for a while yet.

” I played very badly tonight », sums up the Mavs player who suffered a lot in terms of shooting. Blame it on a very serious Magic defense, like never before this season (first game with less than 90 points conceded), when it was one of the bad students in this area so far.

Deprived for the first time of his rookie prodigy Paolo Banchero, Jamahl Mosley had chosen to insert Chuma Okeke into his five, who spent part of his evening defending the Slovenian.

” Luka was our main concern at the start of the game. He’s one of the best in the league, whether it’s scoring, passing or otherwise. We had a specific game plan, that is to say put pressure on him and not make it easy for him. That was the game plan for the whole game “, Details the 24-year-old player.

Good shots anyway?

An effective plan because even on the “switches”, Wendell Carter Jr. and the other great Magic players were able to show their mobility and raise their arms on shots, including “stepback”, from the opposing leader. The latter was very enterprising from the start with 13 shots in the first quarter, for five successes, before a second half black clumsiness at 3/14. With in the end a sad total of 9/29, including 2/11 at 3-points.

” He put 24 points with 29 shots… He had good shots, they just didn’t come in “, puts Jason Kidd into perspective, saluting the game of Spencer Dinwiddie (29 points) to keep the Mavs in the game. ” We simply missed open shots. In this league, you can’t miss open shots. We had a lot of good shots, we have to put them. 33 points in the second half is not acceptable », Qualifies the technician.

In addition to his poor outing, Luka Doncic points to a collective failure.

” We did not play well collectively. We have to approach the game differently, with the same motivation as if we were playing against, I don’t know… Milwaukee. We have to approach the game much better than that. We always say it before a game, but then we don’t. It is a match that we will regret later. They were good defensively today, but we have to be much better “claims the Texan leader.

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