NBA: Luka Doncic stays hot! Dallas Mavericks conquer Utah Jazz in heated duel

The Dallas Mavericks have defeated Utah Jazz with 111: 103 thanks to strong defense and an excellent Luka Doncic. There were several clashes between the teams in the course of the game.

• Dallas Mavericks (40-25) - Utah Jazz (40-24) 111: 103 (Boxscore)
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Dallas Mavericks (40-25) - Utah Jazz (40-24) 111: 103 (Boxscore)

As so often in the past few weeks, Doncic was outstanding in the game with 7/10 FG for 16 points and 2 assists in the first quarter, in the end were 35 points on his account at 12/23 from the field and 5/11 of Downtown. For this he collected a season high of 16 rebounds, played 7 assists at 3 turnover and fell with use in the defensive (3 steals, 1 block).

Dorian Finney Smith frustrated Donovan Mitchell (17, 5/18 FG) as its primary defender and achieved 21 points (8/14 FG). Even much worse than Mitchell Mike Conley played a total failure with 3 points at 1/7 fg and 4 assists.

Jalen Brunson lacked injury on the right foot, Spencer Dinwiddie once again made a very good job as a starter (5/9 3p, 11 of his 23 points in the second quarter). Dwight Powell (13) and Maxi Kleber (8, 2/7 3P) convinced above all defensive.

Utah started with a drop defense in which the Big you drop in the Pick'n'Roll under the basket and wait there on the ball handler. The answer of the Mavs was simple: they did not ran in the big one, but let the threesome fly (3/4 to the start). Utah varied in the course of the game, especially with Hassan Whiteside (8) on the parquet, from time to time with a switch defense, but had little success.

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It was not long until there was something rude in the parquet: after Gobert (12, 13 rebounds) was fouled by Powell, he wiped his opponent behind his face and was warned with a technical foul. The MAVs were talking to actions and prompted two threes in, Timeout Utah. The rest of the neighborhood developed off, both teams quickly cooled from downtown after hot start. 30:24 for Dallas after 12 minutes.

The MAVs came excellently into the second quarter with a 7: 0 run, adhesive set a bit later with a threesome to +13. Doncic remained unobtrusively (2 points in the second quarter) until shortly before the break when he was provoking himself from Gobert. After a free throw, the center flip the ball slightly to Doncic, which drew the ball a little harder back to the sender. For this he was punished with his 13th technical foul of the season, the MAVs led 60:49 after the first half.

The only points of MAVs in the first six minutes after the break came through two threesome, Utah hardly used the chance for catching up. So Dallas quickly pulled back to +18 away, when three more triples found their goal quickly. The first two of the MAVs in the third quarter came after almost ten minutes, Utah had ten points in the section at this time.

Then it came to the next small incident between Gobert and Doncic, when the Frenchman went backwards in Doncic after a hit, which went back to the ground. The referees looked at the situation for a possible technical foul, but decided against just a few seconds. This decision seemed right, Doncic dropped very theatrically.

"At the moment, I thought it was bad, but then I saw it again and it was nothing," said Doncic after the game, raised to the scene: "We all laughed on the bench."

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Dallas went to the final quarter at 85:68 but saw this guidance slowly melt until Doncic made again for a big frustration at Utah. After a rebound, Gobert wanted to pass on the ball to Mitchell, but Doncic quickly turned quickly and countered the ball to Mitchell, which promoted the ball into it. However, the REFS only looked after a replay that Doncic had requested animated. Dallas ended the extra ball possession with a triple and put another one later to increase again to +16.

Utah came up to -6 although Mitchell awarded two free throw. Then the two best MAVs of the game made for the early decision as Doncic Mitchell the Ball Klauten and Finney-Smith in FastBreak for a crashing Alley-Oop-Dunk found, who set 106: 97 in the last minute. Doncic threw his last free throw of the game under loud MVP calls of domestic fans.

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For the MAVs it was the fifth victory in a row in a duel that will repeat in almost two weeks and could also take place in the first playoff round of Western Conference.