The Dallas Mavericks (2-2) lose a double-digit lead to the Oklahoma City Thunder (2-2) and lose in the final minutes of game 4 on Monday night 100-96. The series is now tied 2-2 and Dallas will head to OKC for Game 5 on Wednesday night.
The first quarter was electric for Dallas, in fact the first half at that. Luka Doncic scored the first seven of Dallas’s first 14 points. He was quiet after that but guess who came along to save the Mavs yet again during the playoffs…. PJ Washington. Washington scored 14 points for Dallas in the first half and was 4-of-9 from downtown.
Dallas had their largest lead of the night in the first quarter when they took a 22-8 lead. The Mavs ended the first quarter up 10 points, shooting 5-of-11 from three-point range, 45 percent.
Second quarter started and ended just like the first quarter, it was raining threes in American Airlines Center. It seemed like they couldn’t miss there for a while. Midway through the quarter tha Mavs were 50 percent from downtown making seven of their 14 three-point attempts, led by Washington who ended the night with five made threes.
Dallas took a 54-43 lead into the half. The Mavs were led by Doncic and Washington.
Kyrie Irving was quiet in the first half only having four points.
OKC took the third quarter outscoring the Mavs 22-15 but Dallas still held a lead. Midway through the fourth quarter they still maintained a seven point lead. Washington led the Mavs with 20 points, Doncic had 17 points, and Derrick Jones Jr. added 13 points.
Jones Jr. stepped up tonight for Dallas as Irving didn’t seem to have the best night. Not only did Jones Jr. added significant points for the Mavs but he also played tremendous defense for Dallas and came up strong on big plays.
Oklahoma City took their first lead of the game with two minutes left in the fourth quarter and the key difference that let this game slip away from Dallas was free throws. The Mavs shot 12-of-23 from the line while OKC shot 23-of-24. When you have a four point loss, that is the difference between a win and a lose.
“We shot 52 percent from the line, that’s unacceptable.” Doncic stated after the game in the post game press conference.
The Mavs shot great from the floor, they drained 12 three-pointers and shot 40 percent from the floor. But with the 11 missed free-throws on top of giving up 34 points to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC capitalized at the end giving them the win in Dallas.
Game five will be OKC on Wednesday night. Tip off is at 8:30 PM.
The first quarter was electric for Dallas, in fact the first half at that. Luka Doncic scored the first seven of Dallas’s first 14 points. He was quiet after that but guess who came along to save the Mavs yet again during the playoffs…. PJ Washington. Washington scored 14 points for Dallas in the first half and was 4-of-9 from downtown.
Dallas had their largest lead of the night in the first quarter when they took a 22-8 lead. The Mavs ended the first quarter up 10 points, shooting 5-of-11 from three-point range, 45 percent.
Second quarter started and ended just like the first quarter, it was raining threes in American Airlines Center. It seemed like they couldn’t miss there for a while. Midway through the quarter tha Mavs were 50 percent from downtown making seven of their 14 three-point attempts, led by Washington who ended the night with five made threes.
Dallas took a 54-43 lead into the half. The Mavs were led by Doncic and Washington.
Kyrie Irving was quiet in the first half only having four points.
OKC took the third quarter outscoring the Mavs 22-15 but Dallas still held a lead. Midway through the fourth quarter they still maintained a seven point lead. Washington led the Mavs with 20 points, Doncic had 17 points, and Derrick Jones Jr. added 13 points.
Jones Jr. stepped up tonight for Dallas as Irving didn’t seem to have the best night. Not only did Jones Jr. added significant points for the Mavs but he also played tremendous defense for Dallas and came up strong on big plays.
Oklahoma City took their first lead of the game with two minutes left in the fourth quarter and the key difference that let this game slip away from Dallas was free throws. The Mavs shot 12-of-23 from the line while OKC shot 23-of-24. When you have a four point loss, that is the difference between a win and a lose.
“We shot 52 percent from the line, that’s unacceptable.” Doncic stated after the game in the post game press conference.
The Mavs shot great from the floor, they drained 12 three-pointers and shot 40 percent from the floor. But with the 11 missed free-throws on top of giving up 34 points to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander OKC capitalized at the end giving them the win in Dallas.
Game five will be OKC on Wednesday night. Tip off is at 8:30 PM.
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00:04 OKC tied the series up on Monday night after beating the Mavs
00:08 196 here in American Airlines Center. The series is now tied 2-2
00:12 as Dallas will head back to Oklahoma City for game 5 on Wednesday night.
00:16 Now Dallas came out hot in the first half. It was raining 3's in AAC.
00:20 They made 12 three-pointers and 5 of them coming from PJ Washington. Dallas
00:24 led the entire contest up until the fourth quarter when OKC took its first lead
00:28 with 2 minutes left. Now the difference in this game and why Dallas lost was their
00:32 free throws. They shot 11 of 23 from the line while OKC shot
00:36 23 of 24 from the line. Luke Goddodge stated after the game that they shot 52%
00:40 from the floor and that's just unacceptable. "We just gotta work on our free throws.
00:44 We shot 52%. That's unacceptable."
00:48 We also spoke to head coach Jason Kidd and he said if they want to win these games they cannot
00:52 shoot that low of a percentage from the line. "We gotta do better. We've talked about it
00:56 as a group. We can't shoot 50% if we want to win.
01:00 So we'll talk about
01:04 tomorrow and we'll get better and we'll have an opportunity on Wednesday."
01:08 PJ Washington led the Mavs tonight with 21 points and 12 rebounds. Luke Goddodge
01:12 added 18 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists.
01:16 Tip off for game 5 in Oklahoma City will be at 8.30pm. For all things Dallas Mavericks
01:20 tune in to Spectrum Cable Channel 15 on Wednesday and Thursday nights. I'm Brittany Bowen
01:24 for D210 Sports and you've just been credentialed.
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