Three days after blowing up the Phoenix Suns project, the team with the most wins in the regular season in the NBA that after its defeat against the Mavs dissolves into internal wars, Luka Doncic made his debut in a Conference final against the 2015 champions , 2017 and 2018, the Warriors of Curry, Thompson, Green and company. Luka, with the natural calm of bon vivant, had been on the eve of the first game of the series having a few beers in San Francisco with his friend and teammate Marjanovic; the spotlights point to the young Slovenian, they treat him (rightly) as a premature legend in the best league in the world and he simply behaves like a normal 23-year-old boy who, as he says, is “living the best life” .
The night came in the spring Bahia and Luka, inevitably, had to put everyday life aside. The active game began, with several baskets after a step back, like those that made Booker or Paul furious, but the Mavericks excessively noted the hardness of the seven games against their state teammates and were no match for a plugged-in Warriors, still hungry of success despite the splendor of its recent past. Also, while Dallas advanced to its first conference final in 10 years in an all-out battle with the Suns, Golden State had outscored the Grizzlies in six games. Almost one more week of rest in veterans of the stature of Curry, Klay or Draymond, can make a difference.
Luka, well defended by Wiggins from Guadian, stayed at 20 points with six of 18 from the field; Dinwiddie, a key man in Kidd’s attack, kept his level and scored 17; Brunson 14… but the rest of the squad, tired, did not compete in this first round of the series.
Kerr smiled to see his best men healthy, the Chase Center vibrated with the triples of Steph and Thompson, with the trilería of Poole, with the intensity of Green. All the local starters finished the game in double figures, the day ended in a blowout and the Warriors take the lead in a common place for them, the Western finals. On the same stage, on Friday, the second game of the series will take place.
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