Mavericks vs Suns

Follow our updates as the Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks face off in Game 3 of their NBA Playoffs series on Friday night.

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THE STORY: The Mavericks are back at home where they've had reasonable success, at 2-1. At the moment, they're 0-2 against the Suns in the second round of the ...

Anyway, what the Mavericks have to do against the Suns is pretty simple: everyone past Luka Doncic needs to play better. I would like to feel better. Maybe you all feel better.

The Dallas Mavericks return home to face the Phoenix Suns on May 6, and here is a look ...

Luka Doncic has another 40-point double-double, but the Suns to slow down his supporting cast just enough to win. Expect CP3 to go for 25 as Devin Booker leads the Suns with 32 in an impressive comeback win in Dallas. Dallas Mavericks vs. Dallas Mavericks vs. The Dallas Mavericks need to win on Friday night or their season will be all but over. Luka Doncic and company know they need to play better on both ends of the floor if they want to win on Friday night at the American Airlines Center.

C Deandre Ayton; G Devin Booker; G Chris Paul. Dallas Mavericks: F Reggie Bullock; F Dorian Finney-Smith; C Dwight Powell; G Jalen Brunson; G Luka Doncic ...

- G Luka Doncic - F Reggie Bullock Meanwhile, Luka Doncic led the Mavericks with 35 points and seven assists while Reggie Bullock had 16 in the loss.

Chris Paul and the Suns seem to have the recipe figured out against the Dallas Mavericks, and should be bet on to continue their winning ways.

Brunson has gone a miserable 9-of-28 from the floor. The Suns are slight 1.5-point favorites Friday night and -110 on the moneyline. It’s hard to blame Luka Doncic for the 0-2 deficit.

The Dallas Mavericks now trail the Phoenix Suns 2-1 in the Western Conference Semifinals.

The Suns used a late surge to come within single digits, but it was short-lived and too late in the game to be a difference-maker. Brunson faced yet another opportunity to step up as the lead initiator of the Mavericks' offense with Doncic out due to foul trouble. The Mavericks built on their momentum by coming out of the break with an 8-2 run to establish a double-figure edge. The Mavericks contained the Suns to just 43 points in the first half while Chris Paul turned it over seven times. After picking up his fifth foul, foul trouble became an issue for Doncic again early in the fourth quarter. "That was really poor, that second half [of Game 2, on defense]... I knew I had to get back with my team and play better defense."

The Mavericks were fined $25000 on Friday for violating league rules regarding bench decorum during Game 2's matchup against the Suns.

He shot a 11-of-16 from the field over 36 minutes of action. In Game 2, it was Booker with the hot hand. Fourteen of his points came in the fourth quarter alone.

Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson saved the Dallas Mavericks season in Game 3. Can Dallas tie the series up at 2-2 on Sunday?

As we talked about in the first two games, we were getting shots up against the clock and deep into the clock,” said Kidd He only played 12 minutes and didn’t score any points, but his defense — especially on Devin Booker — provided the Mavs with a spark. In Game 2, they raised their efficiency to an unreal 64.5 percent from the field and 52 percent on 3s. Whether it was due to the Mavs turning up their aggression on defense or similar the law of averages, Dallas hopes that trend continues into Game 4. Kidd didn’t make that move, but he did make his first real adjustment of the series. “They are a really good defensive team, so we felt that we needed to be a little bit more aggressive early in that clock. Although Doncic’s 3-point shot wasn’t falling, he was giving the Suns work in the paint in route to his 26 points. “Be able to push the pace a little bit. Dallas now has a chance to tie the series at 2-2 on Sunday afternoon and make this a best-of-three series heading back to Phoenix. It was a bang-bang play with Jae Crowder that probably could’ve been challenged, but the Mavs weathered the storm and came out victorious regardless. “We have Reggie [Bullock] and Doe Doe [Dorian Finney-Smith]. Those guys were incredible all year on the defensive end, and that showed today once again that they’re doing an amazing job. But the energy and the execution were better, (too).

Luka Doncic flirted with a 26-point triple-double in the Mavs' Game 3 win. DALLAS — Phoneix Suns guard Chris Paul handed out the bulk of the gifts on his 37th ...

Dallas rolled to three straight victories over Utah in 2001 to defeat the Jazz 3-2 in a first-round best-of-five series. Brunson and Doncic’s drives helped the Mavericks outscore the Suns 50-32 in the paint. Paul captured wins in his other two birthday matchups in 2018 against Utah and 2019 against the Golden State Warriors. The Suns starting backcourt attempted a total of 22 shots. Brunson’s performance is exactly what Dallas needs for the rest of the series after entering it with high expectations for the guards stemming from a solid showing in the opening round. The most Paul has turned over the ball in an entire game is eight times back in 2012 against the San Antonio Spurs. Russell Westbrook was the last player to accomplish the feat in 2017 during the first round of the playoffs with Oklahoma City. A pending unrestricted free agent, Brunson flexed aggression early and took it to Phoenix by driving to the rack with near-reckless abandon. Much credit to Dallas coach Jason Kidd for tweaking things somewhat and playing the Slovenian point guard more in the post during the early portions of the game. Doncic also looked spryer as the action progressed than he did in Game 2 on defense, where Phoenix mercilessly hunted him. Dallas shot poorly in the first quarter. First, it kept Doncic fresh down the stretch, while allowing the superstar to facilitate more, which in turn opened the offense for early involvement from Brunson.

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