The Dallas Mavericks Season CONTINUES...Is Brandon Williams The Next Kyrie?

The Dallas Mavericks season continues after they defeated the Sacramento Kings in Sacramento tonight in game one of the play-in tournament. The Dallas Mavericks came out with a lot to prove after trading away Luka, after having a bunch of angry fans, and honestly just a very bad season after we just made it to the finals last season. But that didn't even matter. None of that mattered as the Dallas Mavericks came in poised, calm, cool, and collected and ready to win. We saw amazing defense from Caleb Martin, Derek Lively, Najee, and PJ. We saw Klay Thompson look like Game 6 Klay Thompson. I mean, we saw Brandon Williams look like the next Kyrie Irving, and I'm so glad we gave him a guaranteed deal, because he is going to be instrumental for this team moving forward. But in this video, we're going to go over the box score, what stood out to us, who stood on business, as well as who was our next opponent. But how's it going, everybody? My name is Marcel Martin. This is Mavericks Digest, bringing you the latest news on everything Mavericks related. And before we get started with today's video, we're currently sitting at 20,312 subscribers. Just want to say thank you guys so much for all the love and support. But if you want to be up to date on everything Mavericks related with our live streams, our watch-alongs, our news vids, and everything else in between, make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on a single thing that we do. But the Dallas Mavericks had their first game of the play-in tournament tonight against the Sacramento Kings. And a lot of people were unsure how to feel as the Kings were on somewhat of a hot streak to end the season. The Dallas Mavericks were having their own internal issues. We lost against the Grizzlies, but we really weren't playing anybody. But neither were they. Things have been very rocky for the Mavericks, so a lot of people were unsure of what was going to happen. But the best thing did happen. Everything worked to perfection. Jason Kidd was an amazing coach with very good timeouts, with very good defensive sets, good offensive sets, good lineups where garbage time still had players that could have done something but we played all the right players Najee Marshall continues to be our starting point guard showing that his play making his defense is very very crucial come playoff time and although Anthony Davis didn't start off that hot everybody else contributed Klay Thompson caught a heater Brandon Williams off the bench with a three-point barrage everybody was helping out in every little way until AD finally got it going in the third quarter and also in the fourth quarter and we just put it away we were up by as much as almost 30 points 27 at one point the Dallas Mavericks made sure that the Kings were not lighting any beams tonight and that we made it on to the second round of the play-in where we will see the Grizzlies this Friday but let's go ahead and take a look at the box score from tonight's game Anthony Davis had 27 points three blocks one steal one assist and nine rebounds didn't have the hottest of starts like I said he was 9 of 23 for the game shot 3 of 6 from the floor 6 of 6 from the free throw line and that's absolutely fine obviously when Anthony Davis is at 100 attacking and just being that monster that a lot of people know that he can be we will win by probably a little bit more than just by 14 20 points but knowing that even though Anthony Davis isn't playing 100 even though Anthony Davis doesn't have a spectacular night we still have other guys that can step up and they can take on that offensive workload or that defensive workload until AD starts to feel himself and obviously that's because he's coming back from an injury wouldn't be surprised if it's still lingering but come next season we're going to see a completely different Anthony Davis but tonight I'm still okay with what we did get like I said 27 points and nine rebounds I'll take it PJ Washington had another great game he had 17 points two steals four assists and nine rebounds Najee Marshall had nine points two steals three assists and four rebounds and although Najee was at nine points at halftime he was at nine points at the end of the game that's totally fine the way that Najee handles the ball the way he brings it down he play makes he gets guys set up and obviously the defense outweighed anything else that he could have done if there was a stat for defense Najee as well as Caleb Martin Derek Derek Lively excuse me would be at the very top of that list but obviously we can't see that but they still played very very well and speaking of Derek Lively had five points one block two steals four assists only one rebound he shot two of five from the floor I don't care about the offense I don't care about the points one rebound is a little bit odd that I do not care what I care the most about is The fact that he was putting the clamps on anybody that came to the paint, whether that was Jonas Valanciunas or it was Domantas Sabonis, if DeMar tried to drive or if Zach Levine tried to drive or if Keegan Murray, Keonis, I don't care who it was. I don't care if Doug Christie off the bench tried to drive on Derek Lively. My man might as well be a bright red stop sign because ain't nobody getting past Derek Lively in the paint tonight. His defense was absolutely amazing. Domantas Sabonis is considered an all-star in today's NBA, and he got owned by second-year Derek Lively, who's just now coming back from injury. Dallas Mavericks have a very good thing on their hands, and that thing is Derek Lively and that defense. But just to continue with the box score, Klay Thompson had an amazing night. 23 points, 1 block, 1 steal, 2 assists, 5 rebounds. Shot 5 of 7 from 3, 8 of 11 from the floor. And for those that don't remember, a few years ago, he shot 0 of 10 in a win-or-go-home game, and it was against the Sacramento Kings. So this was a little bit of a revenge game for Klay. love to see him go off five and seven from three absolutely amazing he definitely helped us put this away and i'm glad that he was able to step up and off the bench caleb martin zero points one block two assists three three rebounds don't care the defense was absolutely amazing knowing that we have someone like caleb martin that we can throw on some of their best players sure don't let our other guys get tired let caleb martin tire them out is an absolutely amazing strategy and let's say the mavericks make it all the way to the first round of the playoffs where we will have to see the oklahoma city thunder yeah caleb martin's gonna be super essential for that matchup dwight powell he had two minutes of garbage time daniel gafford had a great game had nine points two blocks one assistant four rebounds spencer spencer did what he only saw garbage time dante looked amazing 11 points one steal six assists and three rebounds didn't miss a single shot two of two from the free throw line one of three from three and four of four from the field he was the only player I saw who was playing at 110% the entire game full head of steam he would just run up and down the court it was absolutely amazing his defense was also great too so glad we have Dante I'm so glad that we have Dante Exum and of course our boy Brandon Williams in 18 minutes he had 17 points five assists shot three of four from three four of four from the free throw line and five eight from the field obviously Brandon Williams has a lot of similarities in his game to Kyrie Irving the way he finishes at the rim shooting ability their stature as they're both short guards but when attacking the basket didn't work out for brandon williams early in the game he opted in for three quick threes back to back to back and it was absolutely amazing so glad that we have brandon williams he's gonna be huge for us down the line and right now while we're in the play-in playoff situation brandon williams is essential for us max christie in 13 minutes had two points one assist and one rebound and Jaden Hardy played two minutes of garbage time and racked up one foul but the Dallas Mavericks survive to play another day we will be playing Friday against the Grizzlies where Ja Morant is set to play although he did injure his ankle but the Dallas Mavericks should take it just like they took tonight's game very very serious it is a win or go home but as of tonight we can be happy we can celebrate the fact that we are still here we can worry about Friday when Friday comes but of course only one player can stand on business and tonight my selection maybe different from other people's selection i'm gonna say Brandon Williams 17 points five assists three of four from the from the three-point line five eight from the field he was amazing he was someone who stepped up big time obviously he's had big games so far some people say it's just a fluke small sample size well this was technically his first post-season game with the Mavericks an exhibition game win or go home one and done and he stepped up big time 17 points off the bench five assists i absolutely love what i saw from from Brandon Williams as well as other players as well i was thinking about Derek Lively because his defense on Sabonis was just absolutely out of his world but i gotta give it to Brandon Williams but a few things that we're definitely gonna take a look at right here like i said Brandon Williams tonight had 17 points five assists 62 75 and 100 87 true shooting overall Kyrie Irving he is the next Kyrie Irving at least for the Dallas Mavericks but it's it's just amazing that we have a player that good as well as we do have this like i said the Texas Legends Twitter account posted this like yeah Kyrie no it's Brandon Williams yeah same same absolutely same same this right here we also had some other big performances much love to Anthony Davis who had 27 points nine rebounds and three blocks Clay Thompson who had 23 points five rebounds shot five of seven from three Mavs season stays alive absolutely you love to see we live to fight another day but the last thing I'm gonna show you guys this right here the Mavs shot 49.4 percent from the field 50 percent from deep and 92.3 percent from the foul line in tonight's win at Sacramento it marked the first time since March 12th 2014 at Utah that Dallas shot at least 49 percent from the field 50 percent from three and 90 percent from the stripe in a game I think it's safe to say that this was one of our best games we've had in a very long time And I'd argue that it was definitely needed for everybody involved. But let me know what you think in the comment section down below. Do you think Brandon Williams stood on business? Do you think someone else did better? Maybe Clay? Maybe AD? Let me know what you think in the comment section down below. We'd have a conversation about it. But that's all I got for you guys today. Thank you for listening as far as to the video. Make sure to check out our Twitter and Discord. Links in the description below as well as our Spotify. We are on Spotify. If you didn't catch the video but you want to listen to the audio, make sure you check out our Spotify. But until next time, y'all take care. Drink water. Peace.