The Mavs have won four of their last five games, and their only loss in that span came in overtime. Most of those wins have come without Luka Doncic, so how has the team rebounded from its slow start? K&C discuss the Mavs' victory over the Hawks as well as the early season team meeting that could be the reason for improved play.
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00:00He is H-O-T-T-O-G-O, five of six in the fourth quarter and he is raiding threes.
00:26Nice Chapel Rowan quote there.
00:28Yes.
00:29I had to think about that for just half a second.
00:32So the Mavs pick up another win and they've stacked up wins that I know once Luka got
00:41hurt there was some question about that.
00:43Kyrie took over in the fourth quarter because he had been having a fairly mediocre evening,
00:49especially shooting, but in the fourth quarter, four of five from three, he was also playing
00:55through illness like Derek Lively, although he had to miss the second half, and a few
00:59other players, so I thought his fourth quarter was incredible.
01:02They are playing their hearts out.
01:04Yeah, they really are.
01:05After really not liking the way they were playing, and you will talk about it here after
01:10that Utah game, losing to a horrible team, it's like, they're not, you know, you hate
01:15saying this about professional athletes, they're not trying their hardest.
01:20They don't seem to care about this season.
01:22Yeah, they're winning some games, but they're just moseying through, they're just going
01:27through the motions.
01:29This isn't fun to watch, and they had that meeting, and Luka got hurt, and it has seemed
01:36to spark them into just watching very inspired basketball from whoever's on the court.
01:44They are trying their hardest, even the loss to Miami, I'll just go back, they gave it
01:49all they had, and they took it to overtime, they just ran out of juice, and I thought
01:53last night, going into it, Kevin, I'm like, dude, if they lose by 20, they lose by 20.
01:59I get it, man, they've gotten from Denver to Miami to Atlanta, this is a weird trip,
02:04when you talk about west coast to east coast, and then a back to back, and they played their
02:10hearts out, and they were down by six, I believe, at halftime, after having a horrible close
02:15to halftime, and then from that point on, the second half, like, no, we're not giving
02:21up.
02:22Whatever we have left in the tank, we're going to empty it, and we're going to see if we
02:25can win this game, and I think as a Mavs fan, I will speak for myself, and I'll say you
02:30should be, I'll put shame on you if you're not, is you should be proud of these Dallas
02:36Mavericks.