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Mavs LISTEN: Biggest Reasons For Dallas’ Loss in New Orleans; Will Jason Kidd Fix Lineups?

There were many reasons for the Dallas Mavericks’ 113-106 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night. The Mavs Step Back Podcast takes a look at everything that went wrong as Dallas fell to 34-33 on the season.

Dalton Trigg

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NEW ORLEANS — The bad news for the Dallas Mavericks is that Luka Doncic had to leave Wednesday’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans that ended up being a 113-106 loss.

The good news, as we found out on Thursday, is that Doncic’s MRI on his strained thigh came back clean, and he shouldn’t miss too much time, if any, going forward.

On today’s episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we give a full recap on what we witnessed live from the sidelines at Smoothie King Center, including a handful of reasons for yet another disappointing Dallas loss.

Coach Jason Kidd only has so much to work with when it comes roster production outside of Doncic and Kyrie Irving, but there are still buttons he’s able to push in order to get better results if he wanted to.

Justin Holiday played 16 minutes against the Pelicans and was a team-worst (by far) -30 on the night. Frank Ntilikina played just nine minutes, but he managed to be a -16 in that limited span.

Meanwhile, 20-year-old rookie Jaden Hardy stepped up to the plate when he got an opportunity and helped Irving mount a comeback attempt in the fourth quarter. He finished with 11 points in 17 minutes off the bench while shooting 4-5 from the field, including a thunderous dunk plus the foul over Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes.

You can listen to the entire recap podcast below, where we go into more detail on Kidd’s rotational issues, Doncic’s injury, the upcoming mini-series against the struggling Memphis Grizzlies and much, much more.

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DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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