The most successful team at the trade deadline has started another Northern Expedition
On February 15th, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and there were a lot of focus battles today, so the game between the Mavericks and the Spurs in the Southwest Derby was also ignored by many fans, after all, the current Southwest Derby has long been a thing, and the previous bull and horse war is comparable to the NBA Spring Festival Gala, but now the Spurs are just a weak team, and the Mavericks are finally starting to play dominant, so let's briefly talk about the game process, and then talk about the play of the players of the two teams.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter, Wemban's team and Sochan played a 6-0 start, and the Mavericks relied on Green's two points to open the situation, and then the Spurs continued to firepower, and under Wembanyama's leadership, they once led the opponent by 15 points, but at the end of the quarter, Doncic turned on his own mode, and he made consecutive kills to help the team chase down to 7 points to end the first quarter. In the second quarter, Irving opened the singles mode, and under his leadership, the Mavericks gradually overtook the Spurs, and the team overtook by 5 points at halftime, and Irving scored 17 points and 3 assists in a single quarter.
Yibian replayed Irving to continue his firepower, he scored 5 points in a row to help the team expand the lead, and then Gafford also frequently ate cakes, as Doncic and Lively scored one after another, the Mavericks instantly established a lead of more than 20 points, and the Spurs were already behind by 23 points in the third quarter, although Wembanyama was full of fire in the final quarter, but the opponent had two top stars after all, and they also withstood the Spurs' offensive, and finally the Mavericks won the opponent 116-93.
Wemban is on full fire, Vassell Nerve Knife
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the players' play, Wembanyama shot 10 of 21 in the game, 2 of 6 three-pointers got 26 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks, Wemban's dominance is getting better and better, he won such data in only 27 minutes in this game, not surprisingly his best rookie award this season is nine out of ten, and he won the first place in the latest rookie list.
Vassell's recent performance is becoming more and more unsatisfactory, holding the ball is a brainless single, I feel that this team Wembanyama is here to assist him, this game Vassell shot 4 of 16, 1 of 4 three-pointers got 11 points, 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals, Sochan scored 10 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, Collins got 6 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists, Branham got 19 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, Jones scored 4 points and 2 assists, a point guard doesn't want to pass the ball just to score.
Recently, it was rumored in the American media that the Hawks and Spurs had discussed the trade of Trae Young, before Trae Young was very interested in joining forces with Wembanyama, and according to US media reports, the deal may be restarted in the offseason, to be honest, if Trae Young and Wembanyama are indeed worth looking forward to, although the combination of the two can be difficult to win the championship, but the viewing is still very secure, the Spurs want to rise only Wembanyama is obviously not enough, and Vassell did not meet expectations.
The dual-core played well, and both trades were won!
On the Mavericks side, Doncic shot 11 of 20 from the field, 1 of 8 from three-point range, got 27 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists, and friends who often watch Mavericks games recently should be able to find that Doncic is playing more easily than before, because now he can play more players around him, Irving has done a good job in the role of the second leader, he shot 15 of 22 from the field, 4 of 9 from three-point range, and got 34 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.
New recruit Gafford got 10 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block, since joining the Mavericks, under Doncic's feeding cake, Gafford has played a very good performance, since coming to the Mavericks he can average 17.5 points, 13 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 3 blocks per game, in order to get Gafford, the Mavericks sent a draft pick and Holmes, his arrival made up for Lively's lack of experience and poor defense.
PJ Washington shot 1 of 6 in this game, 1 of 3 three-pointers got 3 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block, just looking at the data, everyone may think that Washington's performance is very stretched, but in fact, Washington gave the team a lot of help on the defensive end, his plus/minus in this game was as high as +19, and the team won by 19 points when he was on the court, Washington made up for the Mavericks' lack of forwards.
Now that Washington is here, his height and athleticism have helped the Mavericks a lot, since he joined, he can average 11.5 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and his performance is also good, the key is that they are both the kind of players who don't need the ball, and can give the team a lot of influence on the off-ball end, in order to get him, the Mavericks sent Gwee, Seth Curry and a first-round pick, and the reason why the Mavericks are willing to send draft picks to complete these two transactions is because they want to be stronger.
For now, the Mavericks have been successful in these two trades, since the completion of the trade, the team has a 3-0 loss, and now the team has won 6 in a row, and they have also started the Northern Expedition, although the current Mavericks are only ranked seventh in the West, but they are only 1 win behind the fifth Suns, and according to the current state, they have a chance to hit the top four in the division. Speaking of which, what do you want to say about the current Spurs and Mavericks?