No such thing: 73: 124 to Dallas over the Clippers

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We have not seen such madness lately. Already in the third game round of the 2020/21 season in the NBA we got a psychic tackle with a number of broken records. Dallas defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 73: 124 tonight (Sunday), thanks to an abnormal first half in which an all-time record difference was recorded in the league – 50 points.

The end result was also the Mavericks’ second-highest ever difference, while on the other side it was the worst defeat in the team’s history from LA. The Mavericks ’record stands at 53 points (70: 123 over Philadelphia in 2014), while the Clippers’ previous negative record was 50 (154: 104 against Seattle in 1988).

Although at first it would have looked like an endgame according to the situation in the table (even though it’s only their third game), but in the end Rick Carlisle’s team got their first win of the season while defeating the fact that Kwai Leonard did not play on the other side due to a mouth injury (needed stitches After a collision with Serge Ivka’s elbow. And that was a piece of cake to take advantage of.

The first half ended at 27:77, and in the second we had already seen one long Garbage Time. That as mentioned was the highest difference ever in NBA history after one half. To date the record has belonged to Golden State, which led by 47 points over Sacramento. Recall that it is by the way the same Dallas who 48 hours before this game snatched 138 points from the Lakers on the same parquet.

The Clippers opened the season with two away wins (even though one of them was in the City of Angels in the LA Derby). In the first, Tyrone Lou’s team defeated the Lakers, and in the second, Denver, and the cumulative difference between the two games helped them take first place until this painful defeat. Unsurprisingly, the two players who stood out in those victories were Paul George and Kwai Leonard (who this time was missing from the team).

The Mavericks on the other hand have suffered two losses so far this evening, against Phoenix and the Lakers. Rick Carlisle’s Slovenian star Doncic probably stood out in both games with 32 and 27 points respectively. Tonight it can be said that he “felt sorry” for the opponent with 24 points, when he also missed all 5 of his shots off the arc. He also added 9 rebounds and 8 assists. Josh Richardson helped him with 21 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. contributed 18. Paul George scored 15 on the other side, with the entire team recording a staggering percentage (12% off the arc, 34% from the field).

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