120
106
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEM | 39 | 27 | 30 | 24 | 120 |
| DAL | 24 | 25 | 29 | 28 | 106 |
Guided by Slovenian Luka Dončić, the Dallas Mavericks were proclaimed last year and with Boston Celtics. This year they started the season with the maximum aspirations. However, the team sank. This Friday they had the last chance to participate in the qualifiers for the title, but they fell forcefully (120-106) in Memphis against the Grizzlies of an inspired Ja Morant, in which the Spanish also plays Santi Aldama. Meanwhile, in the play (play-in) From the East Conference, Miami Heat won the Atlanta Hawks in the extension.
To the Mavericks exchange Luka Dončić, one of the best players in the league, by Anthony Davis, another elite player, but a step below. The Mavericks became even worse, they ran out of the two men who had taken the team to the final, the two capable of directing the team’s game while swelled in their scoring account. Before, although in this case for a few weeks.
The pivot arrived from the Lakers did everything possible this Friday for not being out of the playoffs. He scored 40 points, but he was too alone. The second best scorer was Klay Thompson, with 18 points. The signing of Thompson, one of the best triplisters in the NBA history seemed a good reinforcement at the beginning of the season to reinforce the long distance shot with Irving and Doncic, but at 35 it is not like to load with the responsibility of the external game.
The game was twisted to those of Dallas from very soon. The locals escaped in 39-24 on the scoreboard in the first quarter, raised the advantage to 17 points at the break (66-49) already 18 in the third period (96-78), after a mirage in which the Mavericks came to approach only seven points away. The comeback was impossible. The Grizzlies achieve the eighth place in the qualifiers of the West Conference and will face the best of the regular season from this Sunday: the Oklahoma City Thunder of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
114
123
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | P | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATL | 24 | 29 | 24 | 29 | 8 | 114 |
| MIA | 33 | 29 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 123 |
Meanwhile, in the east conference play play-in as visitors. That is, it is the first time that a tenth classified in the regular season makes its way to the qualifiers for the title since the current format of play-in in the 2020-2021 season. He first separated the Bulls in Chicago and this Friday the Hawks in Atlanta, in a duel that was decided in the extension.
Tyler Herro, with 30 points, including two triples in extra time, was the star of the party, but David Mitchell’s contribution was also decisive in the extension, with three other triples. That exterior bombardment left Hawks impotent who had already suffered a lot to force the extension in the last sigh of the regulation time, with a tray of Trace Young in the absence of 1.3 seconds.
The locals were complicated when the Heat escaped by 17 points (28-45) during the second quarter, but traced until equal to 88 and then take the lead (98-92) in the last quarter. A part of 0-9 advanced again to those of Miami, who continued ahead until 106-106 that led to the extension. In extra time, the Hawks were dry in attack while visitors scored five triples and a basket of two.
Herro added 30 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists and counted 20 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. On the part of the local, Young scored 29 points with 11 assists, while Onyaka Okongwu added 28 points and 12 rebounds.
Miami Heat has suffered this year the dropout of its star, Jimmy Butler, first section of the team and yet, the team trained by Erik Spoelstra grows in the difficulties and has conquered a place in the postseason. He has to face the Cleveland Cavaliers, the first of the Este Conference in the regular season. They won’t have it easy.
