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00:00Timberwolves 56 the Mavericks 46 on Mavs TV.
00:10Mavs down 10 at halftime and it's time for your rooms to go recap and talking to Mavs assistant coach
00:16Josh Brogamer at halftime.
00:18He started talking about physicality first and where he said he really wanted to see it is on the Mavericks
00:24ball screens and also off the ball screens really being physical with setting those screens.
00:29And then we were talking on the broadcast about how Minnesota was getting out and running.
00:33Well he would like for the Mavericks to do that as well.
00:36So look for more running look for more physicality here in the second half guys.
00:40Well the Mavericks average right around 18 fast break points a game in the top five in the league and
00:45they have just seven in the first half tonight.
00:47And they have to start in a half court set as flag on the drive and the floater over Gobert
00:53is good if maybe Devin that gets him untracked.
00:55So much more controlled on that drive.
00:58Got to a spot realized Rudy was still back.
01:00Nice time to get that floater but the control.
01:04Cooper just 2 of 11 on the floor in the first half.
01:08See if he turns it around here in the second half.
01:10Edwards starts the second half.
01:13Good defense by Christie to force the shot short.
01:16And Brandon Williams in the game here at the start of the third quarter with a rebound.
01:23Middleton back to the basket.
01:29Flag against DiVincenzo.
01:31Banked it too hard.
01:32There's Gaffer in the right position but had it stripped by DeSumo.
01:34And brought the ball down.
01:36Cardinal's in for a big.
01:37Got to keep that ball up.
01:40Edwards up top.
01:41Pass behind Gobert but he's pushed to the back by Middleton.
01:50And side out of bounds coming for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
01:54Right now tied with the Rockets.
01:57The fifth in the West.
02:00And they have one game to play.
02:02It's Gold Bear.
02:03And Edwards able to set him up perfectly.
02:07So much gravity goes to him when he drives in there.
02:10Yeah.
02:10And you've got to be so dialed in on those rotations.
02:14Hold on for Christie.
02:15That's short.
02:16And the rebound to Gaffer.
02:19Will challenge Gobert?
02:20He will.
02:21And he scores over him.
02:22Nicely done by Daniel Gaffer.
02:25Nice to see, man.
02:27Aggressive going right over his shoulder.
02:29Gaffer, 5 of 5 from the floor.
02:32Another perfect shooting night in progress.
02:34And the sumo has his pass intended for Gobert kicked.
02:39The shot clock reset to 14.
02:41Took it upon himself.
02:43Get to my spot.
02:44Use the body.
02:46Use the glass really nicely over that outstretched arm by Rudy.
02:50Daniel Gaffer's last seven games coming into the game tonight was shooting 79% on the floor.
02:57He is moving past that pace tonight.
03:00Perfect in five attempts.
03:05Edwards challenged by Middleton.
03:07Not good enough.
03:10That's an improved jump shooter.
03:11Yeah.
03:12He's really worked hard on that aspect of his game.
03:15I mean, everybody knows about the athleticism, but you've got to be able to do a little more.
03:18And obviously, he's shown that to be the third leading scorer in the NBA.
03:23At 29 and a half per game.
03:24Flag on the drive.
03:26Strip but fouled.
03:27And Edwards did not like the call, but they don't have a challenge.
03:32Robert Hussey with the call.
03:33Anthony Edwards right in his face with the palms up.
03:41I mean, that's a lot of ball.
03:43It's a lot of ball.
03:46But it ain't my concern.
03:49Well, you hit him on top of the hand.
03:50Well, technically, hand is part of the ball.
03:54I don't know.
03:56We've seen a lot this year when fouls of McCall exactly what we all grew up believing, right?
04:03Yeah.
04:04That the hand was part of the ball, and we're now being told that it's not.
04:11Flag rolls home the first free throw, trying to get himself going.
04:17In what has become really the most interesting and talked about award beyond the most valuable player in the NBA
04:28coming in the last two weeks of the season.
04:30Flag or Knipple?
04:3260-51.
04:35And Randall slicing through and draws the foul.
04:38You know what you just said, Chuck, what I like, the fact that there is so much conversation about it,
04:43is because three or four weeks ago, there was so much conversation about Kahn, and rightly so.
04:48But what Cooper does is making everybody that has a chance to vote for this thing go,
04:53okay, I forgot the narrative here, which is this kid is doing things at 19 that very few have done.
04:59Let's not lose sight of the overall picture of just how great he is at all facets of the game.
05:05And the overall biggest picture is that they've been playing basketball 50 years since the merger,
05:11and only Luka Doncic and LeBron James are averaging what Cooper Flagg is averaging.
05:18It's insane.
05:20I shake my head every time I think about it.
05:22And I also hate, you know, we're not taking anything away from Kahn.
05:26That's not what this is about.
05:27He's been great.
05:28But I'll put it to you like this.
05:30The Mavericks are building their franchise around Cooper Flagg.
05:34The Hornets are not building their franchise around Kahn.
05:37That's not even in their conversation.
05:39High screen by Gafford to free up Williams.
05:43And the long rebound to Sumo.
05:45Run out by Randle.
05:46Good job by Flagg getting back.
05:48Now they try to run the blitz at him, make him give it up.
05:52Good reversal by Minnesota.
05:54DeSumo passed off the layup for DiVincenzo 3.
05:58Good decision, too.
06:01Third three of the game for Dante DiVincenzo.
06:04It hit two early in the game.
06:05And Minnesota, now 8 of 15 from behind the line as Christy pulls up.
06:10And that's no good.
06:12And DeSumo, with his seventh rebound of the game,
06:16is going coast to coast with it to lay it in.
06:18And Jason Kidd will take the timeout.
06:20The Mavericks transition defense not what it needs to be.
06:23And Minnesota matching its biggest lead of the game as we return on Mavs TV.
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06:35Well, the Mavericks did have a record that they set last year
06:39in a game against Oklahoma City for the longest streak of consecutive points scored.
06:44And Toronto went out and blew it out of the water in the first and second quarters last night.
06:4831 consecutive points on their way to a 53-point win against the Orlando Magic.
06:56It's incredible.
06:57I remember the Dallas run.
06:59Oh, it was insane.
07:00Used that to get back into the game.
07:02And ended up losing the game.
07:03Well, actually, they took the lead.
07:05They were down 24.
07:06They scored 30 straight points and then got outscored like 15-3 to end the game.
07:11That was a crazy game.
07:13Do you remember the longest run you were ever part of for or against?
07:18I don't.
07:18I mean, that's an insane thing that happened.
07:20But it's some crazy thing where you just can't find a way to turn the faucet off.
07:24Or, you know, you're just leaving it on.
07:26You're just leaving it on.
07:28Flag.
07:30Can't get it to go.
07:32And the outlet.
07:34Randall able to take it away.
07:40Again, the ball movement for Minnesota tonight has just been exceptional.
07:47Edwards stepped back.
07:51Desumo offensive rebound and put back nine rebounds for Ayo Desumo, who only goes 6-4.
07:58He's been a problem.
08:00That was a great trade.
08:02That was a great trade Minnesota made at the deadline to bring him in from Chicago.
08:07Oh, Williams, nice moves.
08:09He got Gopair up in the air and able to draw the foul.
08:13Just to finish that point on Desumo, he was averaging right around 15 a game in Chicago, and they weren't
08:19any good.
08:20They needed help, as Devin talked about.
08:23Nas Reed was really their bench.
08:25And now they have a second guy coming off that bench.
08:27Even though he's starting tonight, Jake McDaniels isn't playing.
08:30That can really make a difference for their team in the playoffs.
08:34He talked about his three-point shooting, so he's shooting 42%, but I've been more impressed with his pace.
08:39Getting out on the break and really putting a lot of pressure on the defense.
08:43They're a different style of player, but, you know, P.J. Washington Jr. in Charlotte, people weren't thinking about him.
08:48You put him on a better team, and suddenly people say, this guy can play.
08:52And I would assume he was a first-team All-America at Illinois, but, again, because he played three years,
09:00he was knocked down.
09:01Oh, he's old now.
09:02He can't draft that guy.
09:0338th overall pick.
09:09Two free throws from Brandon Williams.
09:11The Mavericks leading score tonight with 13 points.
09:13Four minutes gone here in the third.
09:15I know he's in the building, but I haven't seen him.
09:18His heart is grinning ear-to-ear on this Illinois stuff right now.
09:20You know he is.
09:21Oh, my goodness.
09:23Randall.
09:25Nice wraparound.
09:26DiVincenzo is on fire tonight.
09:30The 4-3 of the game for Dante DiVincenzo.
09:33And Minnesota's 9 of 17, but behind the three-point line.
09:45DiVincenzo's defense, too.
09:47And he was there on Middleton with DeZumu grabbing the rebound.
09:51He's got the double-double.
09:5314 points, 10 rebounds.
09:57Edwards.
09:59Oh, nice play by Williams coming in for the back side to steal the ball.
10:03Two on one with Grant up top.
10:07That's the second time tonight that Brandon Williams and Cooper Flagg have made some beautiful music.
10:12Love the floor game that he's playing.
10:14Really seen the floor really well.
10:17I feel like three of Cooper's made buckets have been dunks in transition like that.
10:22That is correct.
10:24Three dunks and a floater to start the third quarter is Randall.
10:27Wraparound deflected by Christie.
10:29Edwards got it back.
10:30The pirouette.
10:32Come on.
10:33It's ridiculous.
10:33That's ridiculous.
10:36Very few people in the world can do things like that.
10:40He's one of those guys that does stuff that kind of makes you giggle like, whatever, man.
10:44Good job by Gobert to poke it away from Flagg.
10:47Four on one.
10:53And Minnesota has upped the lead to 21 at 76 to 55 midway through the third quarter.
11:02It's third quarter's ball, but up the defense.
11:04Yes.
11:04Right.
11:06And then that transition that leads to.
11:11Set up.
11:12Great play by Gobert.
11:13First quarter.
11:13There.
11:14There.
11:15And Devon Tzu, again, just really pushing the pace.
11:17Dropping it off.
11:18And it's a great option to have on the wing.
11:20You know he's going to finish.
11:21Yeah.
11:22Can't go wrong there.
11:28Edwards and Randall sit down 14 on the shot clock Mavericks trying to keep their heads
11:39above water right now Williams off the pull up not his game rebound take it down by Hyland
11:49DiVincenzo unconscious DiVincenzo tonight boy he shot that at the apex he jumped
11:55straight up and shot a moon ball and it was pretty his fifth three-pointer of the
11:59game 15 points and the lead is 24
12:04a foul call now against Minnesota Courtney Kirkland calling the foul
12:16transition when you got it going got the defense backpilling you let it fly
12:21string music he's always been kind of a streaky shooter and it's a good streak
12:28tonight is Ryan Nembhardt in the game and he forces one up and in looking for a foul
12:33against Hyland but able to get one to go for his second basket of the game he
12:37needed that bucket he's got the veteran ability to create space for himself off
12:42bumping guys off he came into the league with it
12:47the sumo across the way and DiVincenzo I think was lobbing to go bear but was not
12:56in position to grab the lob of the Mavericks grab it and Christie takes the
13:00other way DiVincenzo blocks it no foul here comes to sumo no look and layup is
13:05good by Hyland another terrific fast break run by Ayu DiSumo in Minnesota all been the
13:12fast break the last couple minutes got Minnesota up big
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14:0581 57 skin you talked about the Mavericks need to get out and go it's Minnesota that's gotten out and
14:12gone
14:12here in the third quarter seven fast break points 21 for the game yeah Devon mentioned it the defense has
14:18been stifling and it's led to all this great transition opportunity
14:21so Ryan Nembhard bringing up an immediate foul against Minnesota
14:28Bones Highland called for the foul
14:31and that's the fifth on Minnesota so Ryan Nembhard to the line
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14:58DeMarc splits the free throws his fifth point of the night
15:0281 58 slow-mo Kyle Anderson
15:08in his second tour of duty with Minnesota's
15:12Highland is fouled on his way to the basket
15:17tell you what Devon we mentioned the Minnesota bench all of a sudden like their bench has some explosiveness to
15:24it
15:24that that can really help them going forward
15:27one of the things you you know from playoff time don't wear your starters out you know 99 out you're
15:33going to need a lift from that bench and now they got
15:36Gobert nice challenge by Dwight Powell's he hit the side of the board
15:40Nembhard
15:40on the push into the lane left hand layup can't go and go bear
15:46able to pin Powell and grab the rebound and the Timberwolves run it the other way a rhythm dribble and
15:52the miss
15:53But the loose ball foul called against the Mavericks and called against Tyler Smith
16:00Feel like every team that's going to go on a deep run needs a guy that can occasionally come off
16:05the bench and just give you like
16:0618 points and a half out of nowhere and Bones Highland is one of those guys
16:10You know and there's a legacy of those types of players absolutely you're not going to get it from him
16:16every night
16:17But there's gonna be some night where he saves you and sparks you and helped you get a win
16:20You didn't think you were gonna get and left were dead in Denver. Yeah
16:25Tim Connelly knew him in Denver
16:28Brought him in here and Connelly the general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves as
16:32DeSumo misses and Powell
16:34snares the rebound
16:38As we move under four to play here in the third
16:44Dermot comes around solid screen by towel and I would just grabs his arm throws it to the ground
16:52I mean, I guess that's one way to get over a screen
16:54I used to know when we're in the bonus. I'd tell Rick. I'm like hey
16:59Set up a play where I go screen for dirt
17:01Knowing that he's gonna push you through just set the screen fall down. Yes. We'll get myself to free
17:08Every I get at least once a game
17:12I
17:13Dwight Powell for four from the line tonight
17:16I think 30 is listening tonight. I hear you dirty you texted me. I hear you
17:21I hear you
17:25You had to do
17:26You had to get something out of screening for him. Oh, absolutely
17:31Right. He can't just get all the glory. I mean, you know, we were talking last night. We're at Finley's
17:36a
17:37Foundation event we were shooting around a little bit new joke around like, you know, Devin only time I get
17:41the ball
17:41I just take it from you. I'm like, man. I gave you the 30,000 of this. Well, that's right.
17:46What are we talking about?
17:47Forever and ever and ever
17:52Boy, that's been in French event was great land. Yeah, it was
17:58How all over Randall
18:00Randall spinning hanging and scoring
18:05Ferocious
18:05Oh, look at this and one of the few times tonight the Minnesota did not get back in transition. Chris
18:10Finch didn't like it. We'll take a timeout
18:14As Tyler Smith on the board for the first time tonight
18:19325 remaining in the third of Minnesota by 21
18:27There we go. Oh, oh, you popped heart right on the head. Oh, heart. Are you guys gonna win the
18:32national championship?
18:37That are you making the call? I'm making the call
18:39Illinois
18:41Oh Mike the fighting a lion. I
18:44Say what they are tough. They got some tough dudes on their team. Y'all are going with them over
18:49Arizona, huh?
18:51Kyle Anderson, you know, he's not shooting a three. He'd rather shoot the two and he traveled trying to get
18:57to two
18:59And wheelies on the bottom of the sneakers the 11th turnover from Minnesota tonight
19:08Mavericks with
19:11Youngsters on the floor in Nebhardt Kulikidis and
19:16Tyler Smith with two bets and Gafford and Thompson
19:19Nebhardt little step back
19:22And loose ball foul called against Minnesota. Good job by Gafford fighting underneath as Randall gets called for the foul
19:29I'm struggling to score here. You got to get extra opportunities, but in the bonus to
19:36Gaff working the glass
19:42Daniel Gafford on the line
19:45He's returned tonight after missing
19:48The two games on the road in Denver and Portland ten points and four rebounds
19:59It's just nice to be able and we talked about this in the open just to be able to see
20:04him
20:04Be himself. We just had not seen that for the first four months of the season
20:09It's been the ankle injuries, you know
20:10It's tough to get that lift and as a big you need that to be able to finish around the
20:14rim and for the first couple of months
20:16We just just wasn't there now you can tell
20:19Healthier than he's ever been, you know this season and you really see the impact with that efficiency around the
20:23rim. Yeah
20:37He's got the step on Thompson coming off that curl
20:42He's got to respect the shooting ability so much and we talked about that
20:46That opens up the floor for him to drive because you have to respect his
20:50ability to make shots and then
20:52That athleticism kicks in when he gets to the paint just throwing it off the glass with his left hand
20:57on the way down
21:01Retro is good seven in the quarter
21:05For edwards 14 in the game in minnesota by 22
21:16And that's the thing we know he can do devon and gaffling to go to the line for an and
21:21one chance nas read the foul
21:23On time on target passes
21:26You'll see him the tension that clay gets
21:29Open for the slip
21:32Laser pass from nimhart vision vision and execution both
21:38His last eight games coming into the night exactly six to one assist the turnover ratio
21:44That is outrageous. He knows how to handle it gafford can't complete the yan one and reed with the rebound
21:58Reed
21:59Putting it on the floor instead of taking the quick catch and shoot instead of step back and shoot it
22:04and it rims out and tyler smith the rebound
22:08Devon
22:14That is a top-notch scream
22:18Really getting the most out of those vocal cords
22:20And that's 16 now for gafford and seven of seven from the floor is randall on the drive and he's
22:27fouled by gafford on the pass
22:29Again both teams over the limit
22:33You can shoot a really high percentage around 80 when you get passes like that absolutely
22:42We haven't seen a lot of screens from him this year no because he hadn't had the lift the lift
22:46is in direct proportion to the screen there you go
22:51He still hadn't missed yet has he no he is seven to seven
22:55That is efficient basketball
22:57It's about as efficient as you can possibly be
23:01I guess the only way you could be more efficient is if you shooting three-pointers and making them
23:07I'm not going to ask him to do that
23:10First one by randall is good
23:17Gafford coming down on top of randall's hand
23:21Grimacing a little bit trying to walk it off a little bit
23:25But a
23:28Typical julius randall in Dallas night
23:31Looking for his 19 point
23:33And it won't happen he rattles out and the rebound taken by smith free throw line's been unkind to him
23:39tonight
23:41Just three of seven on the line for a guy who shoots 81 percent
23:45He got underneath go bear but he came up short go bear the rebound and the perfect night
23:55Swats into the first row
23:58He didn't let the one shot that he missed deter him from getting back on defense
24:03Picking him up and putting him down
24:06He hurt the basketball there
24:08The basketball hurt like five fans just ricocheted off everybody
24:12causing damage
24:14Pocket pass to go bear and he's fouled he'll go to the line
24:18And he talks about this a lot too grigo bears hands not always the best
24:23I mean does he have the lester hayes stick him on him tonight for what
24:26Hanging on to it
24:29Bam
24:31Look out the front row
24:32Oh yes
24:34Spilled beers everywhere
24:39First one from go bear is good a 52 percent free throw shooter this year
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24:55Go bear down with his 30 second double double of the season 12 points and 10 rebounds and minnesota the
25:0221 point lead
25:0485 seconds remaining here in the third
25:10Thompson coming around chased by highland the pole
25:14No good in the rebound kyle anderson with a good block out of gafford that time
25:19To go bear what a catch that was and he laid it up in it what has happened here tonight
25:23forget what we said about his hands
25:24Forget about it. I felt really confident in saying that
25:29Man there was a game we did i don't know forever ago
25:31If he gets inside where i said ramon sessions is not that great of an outside cheer then he hit
25:36four threes in the first half
25:38And gafford fouled underneath is clay thompson trying the lob to the rim
25:43And go bear is going to be called for the hole
25:45I mean this is an impressive catch you know one-handed extended
25:48And then still have the wherewithal to get it up on the glass
25:51I mean look at that that like i said forget about what we said about his hands that that's impressive
25:57rudy kudos to you rudy's revenge
26:02So you're telling me you're passing the ball
26:06As long as it's up above i mean that the down below ones are tough and they're tough for any
26:10kind of bigs but
26:13That was impressive he's never been the most fluid offensive player but that's you know not why he's out there
26:19You know it's so interesting because there was such controversy around his trade to minnesota the price that was paid
26:26for him
26:26Right let's face it he he's come to them they went to the conference finals twice
26:31They could very easily do it again this year you have to say right you'd have to say the trade
26:36was worth it yeah
26:38He's won a defensive player in the world with minnesota
26:42And he's getting very much in the hunt this year women yama's probably going to win it just because of
26:47the
26:48Ridiculous number of blocked shots that he has but again other than donovan clinging nobody can test more
26:54And if rudy's going to score like this
26:56That's not going to happen every night mind you but if he gets a couple of these games in the
26:59playoffs then
27:00It starts looking a lot different as randall fires it hits
27:04The thing about rudy when you get his golf involved offensively
27:09Defensively he's he's more into it and i think just giving a bucket here and there
27:12Get some really to kind of lock in and i think they're trying to make a considered effort in doing
27:16so
27:18Gafford in the lane that spins out got his own rebound and drops it in but he finally missed the
27:23shot
27:24And finally came to win after seven consecutive makes he's now
27:29Eight out of ten officially so he had missed one earlier too
27:33Final five seconds edwards crossing over pull up for the foul line short and that'll do it for the third
27:39quarter
27:41As thompson highlights it from 75 feet
27:45minnesota with the big lead going to the fourth quarter here on mavs tv
27:55And franco three things to know
27:59minnesota great balance tonight five players with 14 or more
28:02daniel gafford with nine of his 19 coming in the third quarter
28:07and the shooting percent from minnesota directly related guys to their ability to get out and go 25 fast break
28:13points for them
28:1410 of those coming for 11 of those excuse me coming in the third quarter
28:19Defense a big part of this game minnesota been really locked in holding mavs to a low
28:22field goal percentage we're leaving a struggle with for them in the half court
28:28It's tough when you look down and you're four of 19 from three and they're 12 of 22 from three
28:34three floater
28:37batted off the board by the sumo and it's out of bounds to the mavericks
28:52Powell at the high post poked at by reed it's off of reed pretty move and he draws the foul
28:58see dwight said are you gonna overplay me and he just spun and went right to the bucket
29:05You know you mentioned skin the mavericks three-point shooting
29:09brian sperrier statistician pointing out that since the first quarter
29:13only seven of the mavericks 43 field goal attempts are three-point attempts so it was so bad early
29:20they just said all right we're gonna pull back here
29:23not really go to that well anymore
29:25and they've only made one of them too which obviously doesn't help the cause powell though has been excellent from
29:30the free throw line tonight seven of seven
29:35he's had some really good games against minnesota in his career
29:38mostly
29:39from the floor a couple of an eight and eight eight great game a nine of nine game back in
29:45the day
29:46eight of nine game two
29:48people will never forget that white pal trade that happened around christmas time 13 years ago
29:53is that how long it was
29:5712th year
30:00williams on the drive and misses and highland will pull off the transition and middleton chases down the rebound
30:1212th year
30:15how looking for some help flag it deep turns on anderson somebody got a piece of that one i think
30:20it was island flag got it back and anderson knocked it away it's been a tough night for the rook
30:26at the right wing three
30:29powell the rebound
30:41a lot of his shots he's been drifting on it all night long yeah 416 for flag for the floor
30:49when you don't have it going you need something where you're really squared up to get going
30:54and the drive and the finish by the sumo what a game he has had tonight and he's got a
31:01triple double tonight
31:06he's going to go to power to the corner diva chenzo makes the save and away come the timberwolves
31:16reed against thompson reversing and scoring
31:23minnesota extending the lead to 27 two minutes in to the fourth quarter
31:29he's starting to believe it's going to be difficult to come back tonight
31:34minnesota played bad tonight they played bad from the get-go
31:39did not have an answer
31:42that minnesota put out there as williams is short diva chenzo with a rebound that's going up
31:48misses that one middleton the rebound don't run it the other way transition
31:53few and far between and melton throws it right to the sumo to the running highlight
31:59jason kidd not calling the timeout yet
32:05102 73
32:06have a settle down and get a good possession offensively
32:11foul on anderson
32:13eight to two start for minnesota here in the fourth quarter as gobert comes back in
32:24and middleton and powell sit down 16 seconds on christian gaffer come back in
32:30all right put those hands together here we go
32:37thompson
32:40and loose ball foul is called against gobert who is
32:45not exactly thrilled at courtney kirkland's call
32:48is anybody ever filled when they get a ball album i don't know if anybody you know used to raise
32:54your hand
32:55right
32:55i don't think that happens anymore
33:00he sometimes i think sometimes the europeans do it like if it's really obvious but that was
33:04that used to be right that was part of the rule book with a take file right you know you
33:08finally put your hand up right right they took that away so no reason to acknowledge it now
33:13now gobert leaves the game down low flag got it stripped but there's gaffer to clean it up
33:21i'd like to give coop an assist on that
33:24daniel gafford his fifth 20-point game in the last eight games
33:31six 20-point game of the season 21 tonight randall
33:40reed got by flag and then flag recovered knocked it off the board
33:45beautifully done by flag and there's flag underneath
33:49that play on the defense bat he deserved it to the other end i'm going to say that
33:55i know he's having a rough night but those back-to-back possessions were really important
33:59pull the chair on naz come back get the block shot and then nice catch and finish with the left
34:04yeah
34:06randall through the lane the quick release by reed down it goes
34:10a few minutes you mentioned the finish with the left on the right hand side because it was the angle
34:16that he had falling down
34:23this is a good one-on-one defense here pulls the chair
34:27catches the block and then the tough catch could have called a foul too right absolutely yeah
34:35flag will try it again
34:38on randall the hand to thompson to can roll with flag and to the rim and he calls the foul
34:45on the
34:45good line the vincenzo will be called for the foul i do like that he thinks he can dunk from
34:50anywhere
34:50i mean he will take off and launch baby actually they called the foul on reed
34:56they both swiped at him both probably got a piece of him
35:05so flag looking for points 12 and 13.
35:1115 in the game against minnesota the only game he played against minnesota back in november
35:15was six of tens on the floor that night but they got after him from the get-go tonight
35:20and made it really hard there's just been nothing comfortable about his game in the half court
35:26randall very physical with him from the jump
35:32flag going one out of two from the line
35:37highland on the move fade away and over williams
35:45bones highland now with a dozen
35:50lead up to 29 for minnesota
35:53an offensive foul
35:54top of the crowd
36:00half-court offense just hasn't been comfortable
36:04all night long
36:05yeah they haven't gotten in i've gotten no
36:08some missing around on the perimeter and getting pushed away from the bucket
36:13this is what minnesota is really capable of doing a bitter defense as divincenzo misses flag
36:25it has the thompson well played by reed drop it off to williams in the lane
36:30met by randall and throws it into the front row
36:35turnover for the mavericks they're 14th of the night
36:39as they play it out here at the american airline center
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36:52107 78 minnesota in front just announced a new game has been added to the coop bobble pack
36:59rookie edition ticket pack presented by at&t one final chance to grab this ticket pack including
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37:12bobble might even be autographed get yours now only at mavs.com slash cooper
37:20look at that that's a solid bobble a solid move did duke lose the other night yes yes they did
37:31man devin really brings it to these bobbleheads doesn't he he's contentious with these things
37:36he's just jealous he didn't get one himself how many bobbleheads you got devin three
37:44he knew it so bad
37:50oh that was the quickest response
37:52brandon williams on the drive and he got fouled
37:59goop devin's getting really good at golf we may have a devin harris bobblehead golf it's coming
38:03it's coming it's coming holding a driver or seven uh three wood that's my club three oh that's right
38:09yes i've been told yes you've totally given up the driver i totally i just added this added a mini
38:14driver a mini driver yes to see if i can uh you know finagle we'll see i'm still playing with
38:20it
38:21change the degree what's your face of one what's your problem is this all in your head
38:25wait it's got to be in your head yeah you know i just i just just just trying to figure
38:30it out
38:30trying to figure out my cooper tonight i'm just trying to figure it out random williams
38:3914 point game for brandon williams who's had a a really fine first season first full
38:46season under contract without the two-way having to worry about that he's been really consistent in the
38:51scoring
38:54when you start seeing a young player and they start doing the same thing successfully over and over
38:59like okay he's figured out what he does but you got to start adding things from that but if you
39:04have things that you can go to that you're successful at now you've created a lane you build from there
39:08i'm playing to your strengths 15.6 rebounds seven assists two steals for brandon williams tonight
39:18highland along the baseline wrap around randall tee it up knock it down
39:2624 for julius randall and this is the 11th game this year that minnesota has had a lead of 30
39:32or more
39:34midway through the fourth quarter up by 30.
39:41christy
39:45gaffer down to three to shoot trying to protect the ball and he draws the foul on reed
39:51and he's holding it like a fullback on third and one
39:58randall gaffer back in the lineup tonight after
40:01two games away after that shot he took from draymond green last monday night
40:06and a nice return for him 21 points seven rebounds
40:15this is the first one though here nine of eleven from the floor
40:19he's had a strong march too i mean yeah really got back to seeing the gap that
40:25we saw last year you know before all the injuries in the in the ankles and
40:29the efficiency around the rim the shot blocking on the glass it's all been there and it's nice to
40:34see him just getting back to playing at that level well your confidence just changes so much once
40:39you get past the injury that's keeping you from doing the things that you want to do
40:43could not make either free throw
40:49here is the sumo having a
40:51all-time game for him
40:54as gaffer dared him and was sumo made him pay a
40:5820 15 and 12 game from higher to sumo
41:03one 12 to 80
41:10christy cross over
41:12tipped out to pull the katas and you'll see who a floater a little too far
41:17and anderson tips it ahead to highland
41:21looking over at the scores table i think we're about to have a line change
41:26and as divincenzo misses gafford grabs the rebound
41:32indeed four mams ready to check into the next dead ball under five minutes
41:41ball as the line change happens
41:47minnesota will do the same
41:49that's great kj johnson
41:51impressive game for the bit of some triples and a tough one for the mavericks who
41:56did a really good job on friday night against a portland team that had been playing really well
42:00they had won five of their last six coming into that game and the mavericks held them
42:05to 93 points and 39 percent shooting but the mavericks had really struggled holding teams down
42:13and allowing them to shoot a really high percentage in the prior seven games and their pain of place to
42:20that tonight is three-pointer there's a nice crossover by pulakitas man he did the electric
42:25slide to get that one off that was nice
42:28i'll tell you what it looks good coming out of his hand too
42:32john pulakitas
42:34first points of the night 1 12 83 and a foul the mavericks tyler smith and anderson bumping
42:41at the top of the circle
42:46cover some ground with that step back yes but you got to say that the release does look good and
42:50consistent
43:14it'll rebound but it was saved by demhardt in the foul that was the saucy save
43:23smith along the baseline throws it up over the rim
43:27and terrence shannon to begin his college career at texas tech before moving to derrick harper's
43:33illinois and he'll throw it up and behranger throws it down one bear j
43:40the first round draft choice from france who devin in that game in minnesota was really good he was
43:45he was uh very electric with minnesota took control of that game in the second
43:50quarter of building 18-point league demhard on the move barrage went for the block came up short
43:57anderson the rebound shannon the run out and the layoff points in transition continue minnesota
44:07with 29 fast break points tonight
44:15powell foul by baron jay with 319 remaining
44:24so powell will go to the line and minnesota controlling this one from the get-go mavericks
44:30went out to an early eight to four lead big win for minnesota put the pressure on the rockets again
44:36those teams will play in game 81 down in houston and what a game they had this past week
44:45something that's never happened in the history of overtime one team scoring 13 consecutive points
44:49that was the rockets and then minnesota scoring 15 consecutive points to end the game that's crazy
44:55that is crazy
44:58anthony edwards enjoying his first game back able to ease him back in tonight
45:06it's 17 in 22 minutes as powell misses the second one of the rebound is out of bounds
45:12and it will stay with the mavericks
45:18there's nebhardt a little down
45:24certainly is pulakitas
45:29gets it back from powell and it's fouled by shannon on the little cross over
45:34nice little handle there for pulakitas
45:48john pulakitas had some good ncaa moments
45:53and this is his first free throw as a member of the mavericks
45:57perfect that's surprising that his free throw stroke looks so good considering he shoots the ball so
46:03well
46:03are you a believer in that you know in three-point shooting translating or free throw shooting
46:08translated to three-point shooting i've just never seen that i'm a believer in form when you see a guy
46:14whose form is like that you're like he can shoot the basketball no matter where he is
46:18i mean you can tell
46:21that release he's got the 90 degree angle with the elbow he's got the flip the flick of the wrist
46:26he's a shooter man
46:29back in the day they used to sell videotapes it looks just like that to teach how to shoot basketball
46:35the tommy manski of basketball yeah
46:41jaylen clark throws it over the rim and thomas smith with a rebound
46:50aj johnson in the shocking pace
46:54run down by powell
46:58pulakitas will try it pulakitas has got it
47:05that's eight in a hurry for pulakitas
47:14shannon
47:17we work against pulakitas left the right cross over the left hander is no good
47:27he will smith will
47:34grabs the rebound
47:41anderson will drive drop it off bearers he dunks it
47:44he got such a sneaky game talking about anderson one of the great nicknames in the nba is slow-mo
47:52but
47:52it's so fitting yeah
47:54that's exactly how he plays it's allowed to work for some very good team oh now there is the
48:02and barrage with a rebound
48:06in the final 90 seconds
48:12conley in the right
48:13in the right corner
48:17nebhardt will pull
48:21and then we'll check to see if this is a two or three with 117 remaining and minnesota on its
48:30way to win
48:31number 46 this season
49:03Here's Pulatidis floating up and can't get the roll, and it's out of bounds, and now they will take a
49:11timeout, which we thought they were going to take as they were checking to see whether it was a two
49:16or a three, but what do we know?
49:18What do we know?
49:2052 and a half seconds remaining in Minnesota.
49:25With the big lead.
49:31Let's take a look at tonight's Chipotle real difference maker, Ayo Desumu, in a starting role tonight in place of
49:37Jade McDaniels missing his second straight game.
49:39They didn't lose anything at that small forward spot tonight, did they?
49:43No, he brought it.
49:44He brought it from, you know, tip on, just really impactful defensively, chasing around shooters, got out of transition, rebound
49:51the ball really well, but his playmaking, I thought, was really on display tonight as well.
49:56Yeah, and we talked about this a little bit earlier during the game.
49:59I mean, when a team that you're on, you know, is not a great team, there's a lot of things
50:04you can do that go unnoticed, and then suddenly you're on a team that's really got a chance to do
50:08something, and people realize, what a great all-around game you have.
50:10He's, he's been really impressive.
50:13The 15 turnover for the Mavits, and Terrence Shannon way upstairs.
50:18That's what he does.
50:19Yeah, he was known for that in check, for sure.
50:22And there's Barrage at the other end with the block, and the rebound put home by Tyler Smith.
50:34Minnesota, obviously, in no hurry, an impressive show, and a terrific bounce back for them after what was deemed a
50:43very poor performance against Detroit on Saturday as Conley misses, and the rebound, Jalen Clark, on the straight line drive.
50:53The shot clock is off, and Dembhardt will try it.
51:00Clark, the rebound, and that'll do it.
51:04Mavericks had an early burst.
51:06They had an 8-4 lead, and then Minnesota went to work, and they went for the knockout, and they
51:13got it.
51:14You know, really started with their defense, but transition buckets really kind of led the way.
51:21Didn't need a huge night from Anthony Edwards, but total team effort defensively got after.
51:26You said they weren't happy with the effort that they put out there, but they changed that narrative today.
51:33It's a very quick turnaround for the Mavericks as they head to Milwaukee to take on the Bucs tomorrow night.
51:38The game time is at 7 o'clock.
51:40Mavs center court starting our night at 7 o'clock.
51:45For Devin Harris and Jeff Skinway, I'm Chuck Cooperstein.
51:48Mavs center court begins after a short break.
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