Luka Doncic to El Comercio: “We moved the ball well, but we missed incredible shots”

Dallas Mavericks fell in the debut in front of Atlanta Hawks in the regular season of the NBA. Those led by Jason Kidd did not show a good image and revived ghosts of the past: poor offensive fluidity, poor performance of Kristaps Porzingis and the little consistency of the substitutes. Given this, El Comercio spoke with Luka Doncic, star of Mavericks, about the game that was played at the State Farm Arena.

Bring young he won the duel of young prodigies to Luka Doncic in the debut of both in the current NBA season. Based on good defense and success from the three-point line (42.9%), Atlanta Hawks beat 113-87 at Dallas Mavericks at the premiere of Jason Kidd as coach of the losing team.

Luka Doncic, star of Mavericks, was unable to rescue his team despite leading them in points (18), rebounds (11) and assists (7). This denoted that his companions were not up to par with some Hawks They had six players with 11 points or more.

After the game, I consulted Luka Doncic the next: “WoundAre you worried about the lack of offensive fluency? Tonight they only had 16 assists ”.

The shipowner of Mavericks answered: “No not at all. I think we moved the ball very well today, but we missed open shots. Usually we don’t miss those pitches, I think we lost the game there. I’m not worried about losing the first game, we’ll be fine ”.

In the winning locker room, I was able to converse with Bring young, star of Atlanta Hawks. The point guard finished with 19 points, 2 rebounds and 14 assists.

Given this, I asked him the following: “Bring, you finished with 14 assists, just two less than all the Mavericks, how do you explain that? “

The star of Hawks answered: “It is a lot of fun to play with such good shooters. I have great teammates who make the game easier for me, you find them and they score. This makes it easier to do my job, I owe everything to them ”.

In the second match, Dallas Mavericks will face Toronto Raptors (23.10), while Atlanta Hawks will do the same against Cleveland Cavaliers (23.10).