'When you fail, it motivates you,' Kyrie Irving said. After a Game 1 loss, the Mavericks made sure they didn't make the same mistakes twice.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Not even one minute into Game 2, ’s chin hit the hardwood floor. Dončić had been sprinting up the floor after a defensive rebound, knifing through two defenders, when he was inadvertently tripped. Down he went, moving too quickly to brace his fall. His chest took the first contact, his mouth the next. Teeth meeting ground is not an introduction that ever needs to be made, but here they became painfully acquainted. Advertisement Dončić had been suffering enough.
Dallas, which hadn’t hit more than 14 3s this postseason, nailed 18 such shots in Game 2. P.J. Washington was the main beneficiary, hitting seven of them for 29 points. Acquired at the trade deadline, Washington has always possessed offensive talent and was often cast as a primary scorer with the . He’s taken time to find his rhythm in Dallas, but it was no accident the team opened Game 2 with a designed post-up for him.
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