{"id":784260,"date":"2026-07-11T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/784260\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T23:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T23:18:15","slug":"mavericks-vs-lakers-preview-and-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/784260\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks vs Lakers Preview and Injury Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dallas Mavericks play their second NBA Summer League contest on Saturday night, this time it\u2019s the late game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Dallas was waxed by the Golden State Warriors on Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\/dallas-mavericks-game-coverage\/60610\/mavericks-warriors-final-score-recap-101-90-summer-league-morez-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">101-90<\/a>. The Lakers played their first game on Friday night, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder, 96-84. Dallas fans will get a look at how Baylor product Cameron Carr looks in purple and gold. Here\u2019s the other main things you need to know:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At the moment, I\u2019m not able to find any injuries or reasons why players from either team would miss the game. Dallas came out of last game with no one getting beat up in a significant way. The Lakers did play last night, so I wouldn\u2019t be shocked if any Lakers players are out (including Carr) since they did play in the California Classic. But hopefully we see everyone who can suit up and play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Look for Morez Johnson to asset his will again if he gets the ball near the basket. I am curious to see if the game play encourages more three pointers from him, just because I want him to be a long ball threat eventually. Defensively, hopefully he won\u2019t be asked to clean up everyone else\u2019s mistakes again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Sergio De Larrea having a better shooting game will assuage some concerns. But as we can see here, the Mavericks aren\u2019t concerned so we shouldn\u2019t be either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Personally, I would like to see him have a tighter handle. He plays so upright at times and if he doesn\u2019t have top tier control, he\u2019s going to lose that ball often.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I also hope Vsevolod Ishchenko gets more burn as the play initiator. Dallas looked away from him often, even when he was open, in the third and fourth quarters Thursday. Then he seemed to get irritated, went and got the ball himself, then started whipping the ball around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There\u2019s plenty more to watch, so tell us in the comments what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks play their second NBA Summer League contest on Saturday night, this time it\u2019s the late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,39459,6],"class_list":["post-784260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-mavericks-game-coverage","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116903903459481301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}