The Mavericks lost to the Kings: Doncic scored 73 points and scored 28+10+17 Fox 34 points
On January 28, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Mavericks played against the Kings at home, of which the Mavericks were the second game in a back-to-back. Irving continued to be injured, Doncic led the team to play with a single core, and it was difficult to stop being suppressed by the Kings by up to 23 points behind, Doncic led the Mavericks to fight back tenaciously in the final quarter, once chasing a single-digit gap and still unable to turn the tables, and finally the Mavericks lost to the Kings 113-120 to continue to rank eighth in the West, and the Kings won 3 consecutive wins to beat the Suns to rank fifth in the West. Doncic had 28 points, 9 rebounds and 17 assists, Gwee scored 27 points with 7 three-pointers, and all 5 players on the team scored double-doubles, Fox scored 34 points, Sabonis Jr. had 17 points, 11 rebounds, 6 turnovers and 6 fouls, and the team's starting five all scored double-doubles.
1. Doncic achieved his ninth triple-double this season, third in the league, behind Jokic (13) and Sabonis Jr. (12).
2. Doncic made his 65th career triple-double, becoming the ninth player in history to achieve such an achievement.
In the first meeting of the season, the Mavericks lost to the Kings 113-129 at home, Doncic scored 25+10+7 points with Irving 23 points, leading the Mavericks to score four double-doubles. Fox had 30 points and 7 assists and Sabonis Jr. had 32 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists, leading the Kings to a double-double victory.
The two sides met for the second time of the season, the Kings are fully healthy, Irving, one of the core of the Mavericks, continues to miss due to a thumb injury, and the Mavericks are also missing Powell, Jones and Exum. Doncic scored 73 points the day before, setting a record for the highest score in an active NBA. It's just that in back-to-back battles, Doncic was surrounded by the Kings, and the two sides tightened the score for most of the first quarter, and the Mavericks trailed the Kings by 4 points 25-29 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Mavericks continued to be suppressed, losing by 10 more points at 24-34 in the first quarter, and the Mavericks trailed the Kings by 14 points at 49-63 at the end of the first half. In the first two quarters of the game, the Mavericks shot only 3 into 5 in 19 of 53, and 8 in 25 three-point shooting less than 3 percent, and the whole team scored two double-doubles, Doncic scored 14 + 7 + 8 in 5 of 14, and Hardaway Jr. scored 12 points. The Kings were 24-of-45 from the field and more than five of them were on the crosshairs, and all three of them scored in double figures, with Fox scoring 21 points, Sabonis Jr. 11 and Murray 12 points.
The Mavericks continued to be suppressed at the beginning of the third quarter, trailing the Kings by 23 points at most. Doncic and Williams led the team to fight back to chase points, and the Mavericks lost by five points in the third quarter 26-31, and the Mavericks trailed the Kings by 19 points at 75-94 at the end of the first three quarters.
In the final quarter of the game, the Mavericks combined offense and pass to lead the team to stubbornly counterattack and chase points, and with 3 minutes and 25 seconds left, the Mavericks chased 102-113 behind by 11 points. Fox and Green both hit one of two free throws, and Gervais made three points and Lively dunked to close the gap to six points. Fox made a key layup, the Mavericks missed a key offense, and Fox hit two free throws to expand the 10-point advantage and lay down the victory. Doncic hit another three-pointer to continue his life, and the Kings blocked the Mavericks' stubborn counterattack, and the Mavericks lost to the Kings in the end.
(Text/Drunken Sleeping)