[Dallas41]

Huge difference between this game and the Atlanta game down the stretch

One Luka didn't stop Kyrie from scoring. What I mean by that is kyrie was killing it on Atlanta but the mavs didn't go to him down the stretch consistently doing that game.

Luka actually let kyrie shoot the technical FT which was huge because had anyone else shot that ft it most likely would have been a miss and the lead would have been 3 points as opposed to 4 points on that final Sacramento possession after Luka made that dumb late game foul.

Kyrie seems to have more stamina than Luka and driving to the basket is a priority to him in 4th qtrs. I think when he's cooking like that Luka just needs to committ more to playing off ball or go into the post more where he's almost automatic vs smaller guys but for some reason the mavs simply won't use Luka on the blocks. He's just as good as any of the top bigs at scoring download but it's a weapon the mavs sparingly use on offense

Luka could be the inside scoring threat this team needs especially with kyrie here to handle the ball now in close games instead of jacking up 3's all the time