Mavericks need to use Game 4 loss as a springboard — much like the 2011 champions did | townbrad
With five lead changes in the final 2:36 and three in the last 1:27,Jazz fans became especially quiet when Mavericks star Luka Doncic’s stepback 3-pointer over Rudy Gobert with 39.6 seconds left gave Dallas a 99-95 lead.
Wallow in what might have been, or use Saturday’s loss as a galvanizing moment, the way point guard Jason Kidd, Dirk Nowitzki and the ‘11 team did en route to the championship. Perhaps that resolve was instilled by the new regime. Or perhaps it’s been melded from tough-lesson clutch-time failures in recent years – and, perhaps especially, blowing series leads of 2-0 and 3-2 against the Clippers in last year’s first round.
It needs to be emphasized that while the Mavericks franchise hasn’t won a playoff series since 2011, this team doesn’t, nor should it, carry the weight of 11 years of disappointment. Before finishing the sentence, Doncic caught himself. “I mean if we won, it would be even more [fun]. But you’ve got to go game-by-game. Sometimes you’re gonna win, sometimes you’re gonna lose but we’ve got to learn.”And they should have won on SaturdayThe Mavericks of 2011 certainly should have won that Game 4 in Portland to take a 3-1 series lead. Instead, though, they learned, quickly, winning Game 5 in Dallas while holding Roy to five points.
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