Just like the Western Conference Finals last season, the Mavs knocked off the Timberwolves in Minnesota. K&C look at where the teams stands after the win, including how they're winning despite Luka Doncic's early season struggles and how the new role players are fitting in with the team.
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00:00Now I know normally we would play the Luka, but we heard that in the cross and it is true
00:19that Luka hit the three that felt like it closed the door on the game.
00:23That was the first three I believe he made in the game.
00:26He's still shooting too much for my estimation, but I think that was always going to be a
00:31process.
00:32I think it's ridiculous to be like, he'll step on the court in game one and be like,
00:35yep, got it.
00:36Let's start passing.
00:37I will say that this isn't fair to him because he's a million times better than the tea shaker
00:42Antoine Walker.
00:44Okay.
00:45Text him what that stands for.
00:47He was just mixing his tea up.
00:48That's not what he's saying.
00:49Shaking his boobies because he made a shot for the, you know, one out of four, shake
00:53my boobies.
00:56But Luka is having very Antoine Walker, like box scores and how many times he shoots and
01:04how many times he scores like Antoine, like average 20 a game.
01:07I'm like, you take 24 shots.
01:09That is a horrible percentage.
01:12Like your teammate Dirk Novitski takes 15 shots and averages 26.
01:18Do you see the difference?
01:20And everyone's like, no boobie shake.
01:23God, it's going to be started early.
01:27Ladies and gentlemen.
01:28Oh, you know what else I can do?
01:29I can buy apartments and become a slumlord.
01:32I don't remember that.
01:34Antoine Walker, slumlord, Chicago.
01:35Okay.
01:36I did not know that.
01:38Look into that.
01:39I don't really know.
01:40Okay.
01:41But what I want to say, interesting way to start this is an interesting way to start.
01:44Now there's a lot of things that we can break down from this game.
01:46And I know some people had some concerns about the usage rate of clay Thompson.
01:50But what I want to start with is you talked a lot in the past, Mike, about the scheduled
01:55loss.
01:57This felt like an early potential schedule loss in terms of you had to do the back-to-back.
02:03You had to travel from Dallas to Minnesota to do the back-to-back and Minnesota's a damn
02:08fine team.
02:09Mavs are underdog by five and a half points.
02:11This felt like a scheduled loss.
02:14And I'm not going to lie.
02:15The first couple of minutes of the third quarter, I thought we were about to see that play out.
02:19And didn't it feel like Corey, the revenge of Anthony Edwards as he gets 24 in the first
02:25quarter and he was on pace to get a hundred.
02:27I want to show, well, he's only going to get 96, right?
02:32You're right.
02:33Yeah.
02:34Corey and his play.
02:35Yeah.
02:36But Corey, I know that you're a big Anthony Edwards fan.
02:38I think he's a great, great basketball player too, but it felt like that first quarter or
02:43early on in the game, Anthony Edwards is going to show I've matured in the off season and
02:48I'm ready.
02:49The team that destroyed me in the playoffs, I'm ready to show I am here to destroy you.
02:53So it did feel like in that first quarter, at least that, oh my gosh, Anthony Edwards
02:58is not going to let us win.
03:00You know, I do.
03:01There's another part of that.
03:05The loss to Phoenix.
03:06Do you think that made a, hey, let's, let's make sure we get this, you know, let's make
03:12sure we get this one back here.
03:13I don't know.