Luka Doncic and Christian Wood are competing to see who has the biggest…trigger. ” We discuss it. He thinks he has more than me. I told him there was no chance. But it was a nice dunk “, smiles the interior in reference to the elevation of the Slovenian against the Blazers this night.
In this match, the two men also had the opportunity to display their complicity in the game. Because the interior also gained height, twice by taking advantage of the lobbed passes of its leader. So poor Drew Eubanks got dunked on at least three times…
The two Texans had no trouble cutting through the weak opposing defense. For Luka Doncic, author of 33 points (11/18 on shots including 5/9 from afar), 9 assists and 6 rebounds, it’s something standard. For the main Mavs rookie a little less.
His mentality of the evening was ” to attack. My teammates trusted me and they continued to serve me in areas where they know I can score. The lack of points scored by the bench is a problem for us, I brought this energy tonight. In the first period, he had already reached the bar of 20 points scored, like his star teammate.
Better in defense too
Jusuf Nurkic was unable to hold him in the duels and, collectively, the Blazers did not react. ” We kept running the same system over and over and over because, frankly, they couldn’t really stop it. “Notes the interior in reference to this two-player game often started by a hand-to-hand transmission, from Wood to Doncic, before a cut from the first, rewarded by the second. This is how the former Rockets player signed his best performance of the season with 32 points (11/17 including 2/7 from afar) and 12 rebounds, his fourth double-double of the season, in 30 minutes.
” Being able to play on him in the second quarter was huge for us. He gave us a boost when he was on the floor, on both sides. I spoke with him yesterday, he is starting to feel comfortable in defense, which has been seen tonight. Being able to get rebounds and being able to play on him for 13, 14 minutes in a row… He’s been good “, praises Jason Kidd who recently wondered about his possible tenure.
His evening performance is all the more significant on the Mavs side as they have just lost Maxi Kleber for several weeks. ” Maxi is an important element for us, offensively and defensively with his ability to stretch the game. But we have a lot of interiors, we have to compensate. I hope Dwight (Powell – injured in the game) fine, but we have JaVale (McGee), (Davis) Bertans… “, concludes Christian Wood, whose performance has something to reassure Dallas for the future.
| Christian Wood | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2015-16 | PHL | 17 | 9 | 41.5 | 36.4 | 61.9 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.6 |
| 2016-17 | CHA | 13 | 8 | 52.2 | 0.0 | 73.3 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 |
| 2018-19 * | All Teams | 21 | 12 | 52.1 | 34.6 | 73.2 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 8.2 |
| 2018-19 * | MIL | 13 | 5 | 48.0 | 60.0 | 66.7 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 2.9 |
| 2018-19 * | NOP | 8 | 24 | 53.3 | 28.6 | 75.6 | 1.6 | 6.3 | 7.9 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 16.9 |
| 2019-20 | TED | 62 | 21 | 56.7 | 38.6 | 74.4 | 1.7 | 4.6 | 6.3 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 13.1 |
| 2020-21 | HOO | 41 | 32 | 51.4 | 37.4 | 63.1 | 1.9 | 7.8 | 9.6 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 21.0 |
| 2021-22 | HOO | 68 | 31 | 50.1 | 39.0 | 62.3 | 1.6 | 8.5 | 10.1 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 17.9 |
| 2022-23 | DAL | 25 | 26 | 54.4 | 41.1 | 67.7 | 1.2 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 16.6 |
| Total | 247 | 24 | 52.2 | 38.3 | 66.9 | 1.5 | 5.9 | 7.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 14.5 | |
