Ladies and gentlemen, the Dallas Mavericks have a chance.

Dallas Mavericks defeat the Boston Celtics 122 to 84 to win game four of the NBA

finals and to bring the series three games one still in Boston's favor.

I'm Dave Before here with Tim Kato and Jared Weiss, live from Dallas. Tim, going to start with

you. Luca Donchitz, been heavily criticized for his game three performance, which I think we

could all agree that was not up to the standards that were used

to from Luca.

And I would say the first half of this game, game four, he responded to that criticism,

25 points in the first half, delivered a knockout blow.

This game was over early.

And Luca Donchitz is the guy that knocked out the Boston Celtics.

Yeah,

Luca is a criticism listener. He is a response haver. Um, he, he has done this cycle before.

He has had bad games. He had bad games in 2022, uh, you know, did a very poor job playing defense against the Phoenix Suns when they went out down

02. And infamously, Dallas came back to win that series. In game four against Oklahoma City

in this round in the semifinals, Luca comes out and he is not good. It's one of the worst games.

That was one of the worst games I've ever seen him play. And he comes out in game five, and he's excellent.

The same cycle happened again.

And look, he's got to stop doing it.

The cycle is not good.

And all of the criticism about getting to this point, not all. I definitely do not agree. All of the

criticism is fair, but certainly a lot of it was fair. And he understands that. And this cycle is

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