Luka Doncic raged at his teammates as Dallas allowed a 20-point comeback to fall to an injury-ravaged Cleveland at dwelling.
Whereas Doncic had 39 factors on 14 of 29 capturing with six assists and 7 rebounds, he didn’t get sufficient assist, with Seth Curry (19 factors) the next-best on the facet.
Doncic was double-teamed on the ultimate possession and desperately flung the ball to Curry, whose try at a game-tying three was blocked.
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The Mavericks celebrity was seen screaming into his personal arms in anger after the buzzer.
“They knew they stole the sport,” the Mavericks color commentator stated of the Cavaliers teaching workers.
Aussie Dante Exum had 13 factors in 33 minutes after beginning, with six assists, three steals and 4 rebounds in a strong efficiency.
However his most spectacular act didn’t present up on the stat-sheet, as after Jarrett Allen threw the ball into Exum whereas falling out of bounds to attempt to hold possession, Exum extremely recovered and dove to the bottom to maintain the ball in-bounds.
THUNDER CONTINUE SURGE
Oklahoma Metropolis is legit. There’s little doubt about it.
The long-time strugglers got here off a win over West leaders Minnesota and, in a back-to-back towards the difficult New York Knicks at dwelling, obtained one other W prevailing 129-120.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams every scored 36 factors, with Williams hitting two clutch threes as a part of 17 factors within the fourth quarter alone, whereas Chet Holmgren had 22 factors and 4 blocks.
“Simply capturing open pictures,” Williams stated.
“Making an attempt to choose my spots slightly extra rigorously. Me and Chet had a very good two-man factor happening, two-man motion, for lots of these performs. The sport’s simpler once you make pictures, so I used to be in a position to hit a pair and that allowed me to have the ability to drive and opened up issues for Chet to have house to do his factor as effectively.”
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Josh Giddey had simply seven factors with six rebounds in 29 minutes.
“I assumed we actually obtained into our depth within the first half and we have been in a position to hold the minutes below management and nonetheless have management of the sport,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault stated, as his staff dedicated simply 4 turnovers.
“We performed loads of completely different guys and we had a really balanced rotation minutes-wise within the first half, which lets you hit the gasoline within the second half with the higher-minute guys.”
NBA SCORES (December 28 AEDT)
76ers 112 – Magic 92
Raptors 132 – Wizards 102
Bucks 144 – Nets 122
Suns 129 – Rockets 113
Knicks 120 – Thunder 129
Cavaliers 113 – Mavericks 110