Kristaps Porzingis to El Comercio: “Our defense allowed us to beat Raptors”

Dallas Mavericks got his first victory of the regular season of the NBA versus Toronto Raptors. Despite not playing a great game, the team led by Jason Kidd he managed to defeat the Canadians on the basis of his great defense and an overwhelming second half. After that, El Comercio spoke with Kristaps Porzingis on the keys to the game that was played last Saturday at the Scotiabank Arena, in Toronto.

Dallas Mavericks managed to bend Toronto Raptors 103-95 thanks to the good performance of his Big 3. Luka Doncic, Tim Hardaway and Kristaps Porzingis combined to score 70 points and seal the first win of the era Jason Kidd in the current regular season of the NBA.

However, the duel was very difficult from start to finish. Mavericks went to rest down 51-45, with bad percentages in field goals and with a Tim Hardaway off. However, everything changed for the second half: they scored 29 points in the third and last quarter respectively to make up the final 103-95.

As you remember, Mavericks was overwhelmed by Atlanta Hawks in the debut 113-87. In this meeting, they only distributed 16 assists and the attack looked very stagnant at times. Similarly, they never found a way to slow down the pick and roll of Bring young with his partners.

Ante ello, the consulted one Kristaps Porzingis for the keys to triumph in front of Raptors. The Latvian, who finished with 18 and 10 rebounds, had this to say: “We have not had a great offensive night, but we have continued to play hard on defense. We have captured a lot of rebounds, doing the box-out and giving ourselves to the maximum under the boards ”.

Then he limited: “In the second half we have not lost the ball much. In crucial moments we managed to score and we have left them at 95 points, that speaks well for our defense. When our attack goes up to the same level of our defense, we will be much better ”.

The team of Jason Kidd will play his third game of the current regular season of the NBA versus Houston Rockets (26.10), while Raptors will play his fourth duel of the campaign against Chicago Bulls (25.10).