Dallas Mavericks Fans’ DIFFERENT Reaction to Luka Doncic’s Return with the Los Angeles Lakers

The Dallas Mavericks fell short in a hard-fought matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers, facing Luka Doncic, Lebron James, and a revamped Lakers roster in a snow-filled Dallas night. The Mavs saw standout moments from Cooper Flagg, Max Christie, and key contributions from their young core in another tightly contested NBA game without Kyrie Irving or Anthony Davis.

Nick Angstadt, Isaac Harris, and Slightly Biased break down Luka Doncic’s return to the American Airlines Center, the atmosphere in Dallas, and what the Mavs can take away from this NBA showdown. This episode covers insight on Klay Thompson, Dereck Lively II, Daniel Gafford, PJ Washington, Naji Marshall, as well as Lakers standouts like DeAndre Ayton (not really) and Rui Hachimura. The team also discusses key coaching calls by Jason Kidd, trade speculation, rotations, and the current state of the Dallas Mavericks under Patrick Dumontโ€™s ownership.

0:00 Luka’s Return & Dallas Crowd Reaction
9:50 Third Quarter Mavs Run
22:22 Cooper Flagg, Max Christie & Trade Talk?

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46 comments
  1. I mean most of these guys are just role guys they've done plenty of enough to win games obviously your not gonna win majority of games without your star players like come on now

  2. Actually I hate to say that but why should the Lakers fire Pelinka? He won a Championship and made the best Trade in NBA history. That is why you should call him Robbery Pelinka. It is not like I would like this guy, he looks and acts like Rob Lowe in the 90s.
    Luka will always be Mr. Basketball! Kidd might got a note from his assistants in the 4th about the college results and he was like ok Guys it is time to tank!
    At this point I would trade literally every player on the Mavs roster besides Coop to get another first round pick in this Draft! Even though you can't replace Naji, Mad Max and PJ right away.

  3. Lakers are 10 games above 500 with a messed up roster and LeBron drama from hell. Mavericks are 8 games below 500. The Lakers are 14-2 in clutch games and 16-0 if they lead at halftime. That ladies and gentlemen is the Luka effect. Just wait until LeBron leaves and they free up $110 million here soon and they can add 3 good defenders.

  4. Coop is here now. Luka respect but we basketball ops not we trying to win! Competition. Lets get this win tonight Bucks. It's like playing basketball amongst your friend. You didn't wanna play with em.Unless you battle other neighborhoods, but you wanted to be the best one.That's how it was when we grew up.We battled each other to the trenches.It's all love on basketball court. But it's a competition.I want you to miss your shots.I want you to miss your freeze.I want my mavericks to win, not the lakers

  5. These past 3-5 games have shown me that Caleb is severely more impactful than PJ. PJ head not in the game because of personal reasons but he's kinda the odd man out. Kidd should've put Dwight in the game for the last 6 minutes. Good game to the Lakers and Luka, they played hard in the 4th quarter.

  6. You guy don't know what you're talking about – have any of you actually played basketball. Subs were the major reason the MAVS were taken down tonight. Who got sub'd, when it was made. You guys want to talk about Brandon's 1 for 6 in the 4th quarter and can't draw a connection to the Fact after a strong end of 3rd quarter he sat the bench for over half of the 4th! The ordered routine sub pattern – which they should go away from based on the game they stuck to = play BWILL in the middle of the Quarter and sit at the beginning. But, the critical point of the game was Marshall's miss of the open 3 that could have stem the tide. BWILL gave him a good look. THE TEAM IS GOOD THE SUB PATTERN IS BAD.

  7. Luka is a Mav, a Texan, and apart of the family. Luka was handed the torch by the great Dirk Nowitzki himself. We were robbed and we will not be happy till Luka is in a mavs jersey again…There!

  8. Flagg is a good kid, but Luka is just Special! His clutch shots, energy, home grown, the basketball gods blessed us w Dirk and then we got Luka..it was perfect and we were robbed! Ive been watching mavs for almost 30yrs…im sorry but id trade flagg for luka in less than a heartbeat. Bring him home!!!

  9. Top 5 6 or 7 huh? All of a sudden it's a question a guy averaging 33 8 and 8 in spite of no spacing and no consistent surrounding play finishing making that the hardest 8 assists possible. Ok Nick.

  10. MFFL is so lame & casual I swear! If I didnt love the game Iโ€™d root against this team just so this lame ass fanbase would be bothered. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ

  11. This is what I'm talking about. Luka Luka Luka. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ They'll be trashing the team again from the residual energy from this game.

    No AD, Kyrie, DLive and a Rusty Gafford.

    We have an all NBA Closer.

    They think the Lakers are better than this Mavs team.

    A lot of soft Mavs fam at the game.

  12. Coop is starting to piss me off with his passive play style ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿพโ€โ™‚๏ธ he can literally takeover but heโ€™s constantly deferring!!!

  13. The Luka effect:
    Lakers are 10 games above 500. Mavs are 8 games below 500.

    Lakers are 14-2 in clutch games.

    Lakers are 16-0 if they are leading at halftime.

    Mavericks up 14 with 4 minutes to go and lose by 6.

  14. I think Flagg pressed and and played tight. He missed way too many easy baskets that he normally makes. At the same time, I wish he would start the game being more aggressive on the offensive side of the ball

  15. Last night was actually perfect I'm literally tired of seeing all the calls the softness the BS the yelling at the refs. The main thing that pissed me off last night was not the fact that Luka is in purple and gold. The thing that pissed me off is our best player 65% of the night spends his night in the left corner on the Court…. I am tired absolutely tired of seeing nobody else but DP set ball screens for our best player to get downhill on these scrubs.

  16. Kidd lost the game at the end, going with No-Center to match Lakers. No time in Mavs history has PJ at Center ever won a game. I don't think he's the coach for the Mavs in the future. Fire Kidd!

  17. The X factor is D Powell period. Just look at any advanced analytic over the games he has started and when he is on floor. I didnโ€™t believe it but team looks so much better when he is on court

  18. Unfair to compare Coop to Luka. But it will always be. Did you know that last year the Bulls beat the Lakers last year by Giddy hitting a half court game winner. If he had missed that shot the Flagg would have been a Bull. Is that crazy or what? Thank you Giddy & Adam. Luka is so good.

  19. Class act for Luka buying suite and inviting 22 Mavs fans that responded positively on his web page. They got gift bag with Jersey & shoes and he met them personally. Wow. Return Love from Luka. Loved the Come Home & MVP chants. Hire Dirk, fire anyone connected to Nico & bring Luka home.

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