Monday night action in the NBA presents an interesting Western Conference match between San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks at the AT&T Center. Both teams want to resume the path of victories, but the Spurs are difficult to overcome when they are facing their fans.
The home team, San Antonio, are looking for their third win at home so far this season to raise their record to 3 wins and 2 losses. The Spurs are inspired because on Saturday night they beat the Lakers of LeBron James with a score of 110-106 to average 113.8 points per game and 45.1% shooting effectiveness to the basket. On the other hand, their average allowed shots generate 118.6 points against each commitment.
The San Antonio star is DeMar DeRozan who holds a record of 27.2 points and 7.8 assists per game, while LaMarcus Aldridge is the team’s second-best player with an average of 20 points and 11 rebounds so far. The team is one of the top three shooters since they are shooting 40.7% from outside the box and 78.6% from the free throw line. The Spurs are located in the 8th position of the Conference.
The Mavs, meanwhile, come with the expectation of taking the game and break a 3-game losing streak without winning consecutively. For now they are in 10th place in the Western Conference with 4 defeats and 2 victories very suffered, by the way, against the Minnesota Timberwolves (140-136) and against the Chicago Bulls (115-109).
The good news is that rookie Luka Doncic is in excellent form and averages 18.7 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game in his first 6 NBA career games, while averaging 35 minutes per game, not bad for a young man. And on the offensive, along with the rookie, is Wesley Mattews with 19.6 points and 2.8 assists per game.
The average points allowed by Dallas is 118.6 while the points in favor remain at 113.2, a worrying figure for some Mavericks who aspired to a better start of the season.
The Dallas Mavericks are a team that has a lot of youth in its staff and the talent is there, but in general they have been outperformed in most of the games, and when they get to win it’s hard for them to keep the result. The San Antonio Spurs, have been beaten away from home, but it seems that things will improve over time and still have work to improve in terms of the depth of scoring and defensive effort of the club.