Doncic receives two life preservers that, for the moment, are deflated

In Dallas reinforcements are requested. she has done it Doncic in the last hours. In fact, it was the previous ESPN of this game with the Hawks the one that was used to publicize Luka’s discomfort with the lack of reinforcements. In the mentality of Dallas, at least for some time now, the improvement of the squad has not entered, even if the star considers it necessary if they do not see it that way. What does a new player want? Let’s give him two. But with a trap On this occasion he recovered for battle two soldiers at the same time. Dorian Finney-Smith and Josh Green, the starting forward and his backup, returned to the courts after injuries that have kept them away from them in recent weeks (and far from their best physical shape, understandably). That is the type of strategy with which they stay, in the absence of seeing a bargain in the market, to pretend to please the Slovenian. While the equality in the middle positions of the Western Conference is taken advantage of to soften another defeat, this time at home. Atlanta fished in troubled river, 122-130relying on a last quarter much more dignified than that of his opponent.

The Mavs faced some Hawks that boil inside, in which there are tensions between McMillan and Young, where changes are being considered, but who have recently recovered a piece that makes them stabilize, the Swiss center Clint Capela, and they begin to climb positions in the East. They have won four games in a row and six of the last eight. At the American Airlines Center he touched the friendly face again.

It will not be because Luka Doncic did not try. The conductor of the venues was forced to give an extra one more day and perhaps that took its toll on him in the end. Because in the beginning it was unstoppable. They needed to better support the rival in that phase to take advantage of their 19 points in the first quarter. The score had been 37-40, a scoring cascade in which chaos reigned. ‘Wonder Boy’ would end the night with 30 points, yes, but missing six of his eight triples and seven turnovers. Nor was it taken advantage of that Wood (22), Dinwiddie (20), Bullock (18) and others, players who had contributed positively in the last victories, had another successful day. Collectively they scored 38% of the triples and 52% of the field goals; the problem is that the Hawks did even better. In a rotation of nine players, there were eight who achieved double figures, and the only one who did so was Jalen Johnson who only played six minutes of the match. After a second set of holidays, Doncic returned to the charge in the third with a terrific minute and five points in a row to put his team ahead for the first time (75-73, minute 28), which would be the start of a 15-2 partial finished off by Wood and after which a furious response from Dejounte Murray (30+7) would emerge: eight points with two shots from three. Curiously, Johnson’s only basket propelled the Hawks in their final rush to win, with him they took the initiative on the scoreboard again -already in the last quarter- and put the Mavs in a maze from which they could not escape. And it’s not that Atlanta stands out for its defensive capabilities, far from it, but they closed down when they had to. The only points that came for the Mavs in the final two minutes were two and from Finney-Smith, leaving the door open for the visitors to enter for the victory.

The Mavs made the rubber in the last quarter. Entering one below, going seven down in the middle of the room, returning to situate one again to, in the end, fall again and now definitively. The defense brings Jason Kidd bitterness down the street when last season it seemed that he had hit the target squarely. The next visit is from the Miami Heat and it will come to them having accumulated three consecutive defeats.