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00:00 How's it going y'all?
00:02 It's Dalton Trigg, editor in chief at DallasBasketball.com.
00:06 The Dallas Mavericks are five and one to start this season.
00:10 And it hasn't been easy, but they've gotten it done.
00:14 All five wins have been clutch wins.
00:18 And for a team that went 26 and 29 in clutch games last season,
00:25 starting out five and O in that department this year is huge for them.
00:30 The latest win came on Sunday night against the Charlotte Hornets
00:34 at American Airlines Center.
00:35 The Mavs pulled off a 15 point comeback to beat the Hornets 124 to 118.
00:44 Now, Luka Doncic did not have his typical MVP-like numbers in that game.
00:49 Still almost had a triple-double, though.
00:51 23 points, 12 rebounds, 9 assists, but only shot 8 of 19 from the field.
00:58 Kyrie Irving shot 6 of 14 and had 18 points himself.
01:02 But this was an overall team effort for the Mavs against the Charlotte Hornets.
01:07 They had seven people in double figures.
01:11 So aside from Irving and Doncic, you had Derek Lively,
01:16 the rookie big man out of Duke, who had a massive double-double.
01:20 15 points, 14 rebounds, 1 assist, and
01:24 1 emphatic block late in the game that helped the Mavs complete their comeback.
01:31 And then you had Grant Williams, big off-season addition in a sign and
01:35 trade from the Boston Celtics.
01:37 He had 18 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and shot 4 of 5 from 3.
01:43 Three of those huge threes coming in the fourth quarter.
01:47 And then you had big contributions from Tim Hardaway Jr. and
01:51 Jaden Hardy off the bench as well.
01:53 So things are going smoothly for the Mavs right now.
01:57 It's early, the schedule hasn't been killer, just to put it nicely.
02:02 But these are some of these games that the Mavs would have lost last season,
02:08 in my opinion, based on how their clutch record was.
02:12 So for them to start off as the best clutch team in the league,
02:15 not just record-wise, but their first in clutch wins,
02:19 their first in clutch three-pointers made, first in clutch plus/minus,
02:26 their first in clutch steals, and their first in clutch win percentage,
02:32 obviously, because they're 5-0, they're undefeated there.
02:36 So it's looking up for the Mavs.
02:38 They still have some stuff to prove,
02:39 especially against the better teams in the league.
02:41 We saw that over the weekend when they played the Denver Nuggets on the road,
02:47 which is always a tough matchup, but so far, so
02:50 good for the Dallas Mavericks and their revamped roster.
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