Luca Donic goes from getting a fan ejected on Wednesday in a game against the Suns the fans yelling at him to get on the treadmill and Luca says you know
what I’m going to go off on the Hawks the same team that drafted me and traded me away on draft night I’m going to go off and that he did 73 points on 25 of 33 he was 15 of 16 from the free throw line what do I say all the time make your free throws kids nearly perfect missed one late didn’t miss a whole lot 148 143 Luca donic the 10th player in NBA history
with 70 points in a game the 15th 70-point game in NBA history we mentioned wi Chamberlain has six of them he has six of them that’s like the blow your mind Emoji right there um and Luca donic pours in 73 points 10 rebounds seven assists.
The week starts and ends with a 70-point game first time that’s ever happened in NBA history Luca pumps in a career high 73 points 25 of 33 15 of 16 from the free throw line I mentioned he goes from getting to sunsfan ejected in his last game to going off against Atlanta the same team that drafted him traded him away on draft night what did you see from Luca because certainly he looked like was playing with a chip on his shoulder.
John Gonzalez
I mean a little bit rattled the other night against the Suns when that fan got in his head a little bit and the Atlanta Hawks fans certainly tried to do the same thing as you mentioned they were Channing get on the treadmill but can’t get an entire Arena of opposing fans tossed out so even better than that he put his game where his mouth is and 73 73 points on the efficiency of the game
what did he shoot 75% from the four 61% from three and as you mentioned just made just missed that one free throw otherwise would have been perfect from the stripe he had it going all game long and and we thought you know earlier in the week man nobody’s going to out outdo
Jo embiid’s performance from earlier right and then all of a sudden Along Comes Luca Donic and he puts up a huge game and not for nothing this is important too the Mavs needed this one they had been on a three-game losing streak they had slipped out of the regular playoffs into that playing pack behind Sacramento just barely ahead of the Lakers and the Utah Jazz so this game from Luca especially with no Kyrie Irving they really needed this one he came up huge.
I mean certainly it helps right I mean you got another high-usage guy uh higher usage rate guy who wasn’t available so Luca had to do that much more and he ends up setting a new career high a new franchise record if Kyrie is out there probably not getting that many shots but they probably don’t need as many shots right because aside from say
Tim Hardway Junor who’s having an excellent season and should be in the conversation for the Sixth Man of the Year award he’s probably the leader who where you getting the shots from right I mean they needed Luca to take every single one of those tonight in order to get the win.
I don’t want to be the Debbie Downer right but we talk about these accomplishments right you score 50 you score 60 you score 70 we don’t see it a whole lot there’s only been 15 70-point games in NBA history
And it’s awesome it’s a great accomplishment it’s excited it leads the rundown we’re talking you John because the guy scores 70 but at the end of the day it’s one win and in a team where they’re not winning a whole lot they’re above 500 but as you mentioned this has got to propel them if this is going to mean anything
Because if you want to be a major player in the west you you’re not going to score 70 every night for sure but you got to have more consistent play from not only Luca every night but the guys around.
There’s no doubt about that I mean as I mentioned they needed this win it wasn’t just about Luca getting his points they needed that Victory they’re on a three-game losing streak and the western conference right
Now is absolutely loaded I mean it’s not even just the top four teams that have been there pretty much all season with Minnesota OKC the defending Champion Denver Nuggets and the Clippers who have been ascendant after that slow start with James Harden but now you’ve got the Suns who despite the loss to Indiana tonight they had been on a seven-game win streak that big three looks really good
So if the Dallas Mavericks think that they’re going to be in that playoff-contending mix they got to snap out of it here so tonight was a good step in that direction and especially without Kyrie Irving who’s been really good this season so to see Kyrie Irving go out to see them going through some struggles and Luca deciding you know
what we’re not going to lose to the Hawks that the Hawks doesn’t matter that we’re on the road we need this W I’m G to need I’m going to do everything that they need me to do to pick it up and they did two 70o games in one week if I had told you that was going to happen before the week started what would you have said no chance right but that’s
today’s NBA all of a sudden we go from hey we haven’t had games like this in a while to you have two guys on two different nights go for 60 or more first earlier in the week it was cat and embiid
now all of a sudden you’ve got uh Booker and Luca donic NBA is out of control right.