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Mavs LISTEN: Jaden Hardy's Rise, Luka Doncic's Physics & Kyrie Irving's Mentorship

The postseason-hopeful Dallas Mavericks finally ended a four-game losing streak on Monday with a blowout win over the Indiana Pacers.

Dalton Trigg

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Following a full week of gloom and doom, the Dallas Mavericks finally got things back on track with a blowout win over the shorthanded Indiana Pacers on Monday night.

Luka Doncic, who admitted over the weekend that he had lost some of his joy playing basketball lately due to a number of reasons, rediscovered his smile against the Pacers while finished with 25 points, seven rebounds and six assists – including a physics-defying pass that will likely end up being the assist of the year.

Doncic's theatrics were a welcomed sight for the 11th-placed Mavs, but so was the continued rise of 20-year-old rookie guard Jaden Hardy, who finished with 20 points in 24 minutes off the bench while shooting 8-of-12 from the field.

On today's episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we discuss the Mavs' latest win, as well as the discouraging four-game skid that led up to it. From Doncic finding his joy again, to Hardy providing Mavs optimism both now and for the future, to Kyrie Irving defying national media narratives by being an outstanding teammate and mentor ... this episode has a little bit of everything to plug into.

With six games remaining, we also take a quick look at the Western Conference standings to determine what the Mavs' best-case scenario might be. You can checkout our entire postgame episode here:

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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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