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00:00 How's it going y'all?
00:01 It's Dalton Trigg, Editor-in-Chief at DallasBasketball.com.
00:05 The Dallas Mavericks have improved to 8-2 after 10 games to start this season,
00:11 with the latest win being a 136-124 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans
00:17 in New Orleans to start a four-game road trip on Sunday night.
00:21 It was a high-scoring affair.
00:23 The final margin of victory, which was 12 points, didn't tell the full story
00:28 because the Mavs, they were firing on all cylinders all night long, and
00:32 they led by as many as 29 points.
00:35 Luka did his thing.
00:36 He had 30 points, nine assists, four rebounds, but Kyrie Irving was the man
00:41 with the plan on Sunday night in New Orleans.
00:45 Ended up with 35 points, which led the entire team, had seven assists,
00:49 six rebounds, had a block thrown in there, and shot 13 of 20 from the field,
00:54 seven of 10 from three.
00:56 And he had a really nice corner buzzer-beating three
01:02 to cap things off for the Mavs in the first half.
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01:30 >> The Mavs will now stay right where
01:33 they're at because they're gonna do it all over again on Tuesday.
01:36 They're staying in New Orleans.
01:37 They play the Pelicans for a second straight time.
01:39 But this time, it'll be an in-season tournament game.
01:43 And the point margin stuff, that counts just as much as the win-loss stuff too.
01:49 So if they can build a lead as much as 29 in Tuesday's game against the Pelicans,
01:54 they might wanna hold on to it because that could have tiebreaker
01:58 implications later on in the in-season tournament.
02:02 But the Mavs, they're off to their best start in nearly 20 seasons at 8-2.
02:07 And with the way Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving are playing together right now,
02:10 it's hard to see any other team in the league,
02:13 aside from maybe the Denver Nuggets, that can stop them.