I'm Luca Donchitch and this is locked on Merrick's pockets.

This is gonna be huge.

360 in the contract.

Never that.

I just take the contact.

I bring the back. I'm running on the fast break behind the back. Yeah, it's that this that this that this that's

Dirk with the Vass.

And the video is to the Dallas Mavericks. My name is Nick

Angstead and joining me from Hoopmag.com and BlueWire podcasts Josh

Eberly Josh what you got for me man thanks for having me on it you know what you said in the pre-show here that you kind of we didn't know each other but we Twitter knew each other and yeah the

feelings mutual so nice to connect definitely and I've seen you you know defend the

Mavericks talk about the Mavericks and I knew you as a Mavericks fan and so I wanted to

have you on to talk about the Mavericks but let's start with the present and then we'll get into your Mavericks fandom

What's been your favorite part about this Mavericks season as a fan? Oh, mean, I think I think I would be be lying or trying to be cute if I said anything

other than watching like Luca become you know one of the five best players in the world. There were high expectations from him right from the jump and

you know obviously there was no shortage of moments in his rookie season where you felt

like he was going to be special, but you know to make the superstar leap in year two

It really was nice to just throw away any doubts that you know he was a one-year wonder or a one-hit he was a one-year wonder or one-hit wonder or it wasn't real or you know the

numbers he put up this year just been insane.

It's incredible and we just can't overstate it enough. I feel like on this

podcast we just got done you know like talking about Dirk every single day and just hailing

Dirk as you know a legend one of the greatest players ever and just we kept finding ourselves saying I can't say enough good things about Dirk you just can't and now we're doing it all over again with Luca you just can't be overstated how good he is so early and you know yeah it's like you said it's almost like bearing the lead if you don't talk about Lucca in your answer to this is one of your favorite things because it's just been an amazing

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