of Dallas Mavericks fell overtime to detroit pistons We lost 131-125 in Detroit on Thursday night. The Mavericks had a hot night off the floor, shooting over 50 percent on field goals and over 41 percent on three goals. With Luka Doncic leading with his 35 points, Christian Wood looked good against his former team after his game down against the Warriors at home.
In Detroit, Bojan Bogdanovic scored 30 goals and Killian Hayes scored a season-high 22 goals.
What started out as what looked like a fun shootout with both teams ignoring defense and racking up scores quickly led to Dallas being sidelined by the worst team in the NBA. After scoring 36 points in the 36th, the Pistons built a 10-point lead in the next second quarter, leading Dallas 99-89 going into the fourth. After Dallas was 104-103 in four minutes and he was one point behind, he leveled quickly and rebounded Detroit to regain a 113-104 lead. It took an even bigger push to get the score even at 117 and take it into extra time. From there, the Mavs built a four-point lead in OT, but scored only two points in the final three-and-a-half minutes of the game, giving Detroit the win.
free throws are not free
Dallas has the fourth-most free throws in the league, but has the fifth-worst shooting percentage. No match has been more disparate than tonight. Dallas in the charity stripes he took 29 shots, but only 14, just 48.3%. They shot worse from the free throw line than from the floor (53.5%).
In a game that went to extra time and was lost by six points, 15 missed free throws is an easy and obvious cause. There is absolutely no reason why a professional basketball team should be so incompetent from the free throw line.
Lord Winnie
Much has been said about how this roster has been shockingly stagnant over the past few years. That’s why the disparity between Dallas’ home and road records is shocking. Last year, in his first Dallas under new coach Jason Kidd, he posted a respectable 23-18 record. That hasn’t been the case this season, as Dallas is just 1-8 away from the American Airlines Center, including a recent stumble with one of the worst teams in the league.
next excuse
before winning golden state warriors Kidd’s questions about the team’s struggles went furiously fast as the NBA suffered a four-game losing streak. His favorite saying is that teams don’t hit his shots open. Well, on a night when they lit up the floor (from anywhere but the free-throw line), the Mavericks still couldn’t pull off a win. , the season will take an ugly turn after the vibrations build up following a stunning Western Conference Finals result.
