‘Heavyweight Slugfest’: Can Luka Doncic Deliver Knockout Punch For Mavs In Game 7?

Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks weren’t able to close out Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 6. Can the Mavs pull it together for Game 7?

Dalton Trigg | Jun 5, 2021

‘Heavyweight Slugfest’: Can Luka Doncic Deliver Knockout Punch For Mavs In Game 7? /

After witnessing an incredible back-and-forth heavyweight slugfest through six games in this first-round NBA playoff series, Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks are fittingly going to a winner-take-all Game 7 with Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers. It simply doesn't get much more exciting than this for basketball fans.

Kawhi Leonard delivered the latest blow by putting up a playoff career-tying 45 points to keep his team’s season alive. The final round now shifts back to Los Angeles, where Doncic has dazzled at Staples Center all series long. Can Doncic deliver the knockout punch?

On this episode, Dalton Trigg hosts a room full of MFFL for a vent session after the Mavs weren’t able to close out the Clippers in Game 6. As brilliant as Luka Doncic has been in this series, was he too passive in Game 6? Can the Mavs get enough from their role players to finish this series out with a big win? What does the fan confidence meter look like heading into Sunday's winner-take-all contest? All that and more right here:

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Published Jun 5, 2021

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.