33.7%: The percentage of the Mavericks’ points Luka scored.
15 players saw minutes for Dallas, and 13 of them scored. But Luka’s 32 points made up a full third of the total scoring for the Mavericks. That’s insane, unsustainable, and quite frankly, infuriating. The rest of the team has to step up and hit the open shots they’re getting.
15: The number of free throws attempted by Joel Embiid.
Embiid benefited from the Mavericks having no one to guard him and a generous whistle from the refs. Significantly, Embiid took only one less free throw than the entire Mavericks team. Dallas went 16-20 at the charity stripe. Doncic got calls for once, going to the line 11 times and converting 10 of those trips. It’s a little concerning, though, that he accounted for more than half of the Mavericks’ free throw attempts. It sheds light on the Mavericks’ lack of players who can dribble penetrate.
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