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00:00 The Dallas Mavericks have Kyrie Irving and Luke Udonjic again this season, but last season it didn't really work out the way that they had hoped it would,
00:09 missing the playoffs completely.
00:11 What do you think needs to change so that these two can evolve their games and play nicely together?
00:16 I mean, it's amazing that the Mavericks re-signed Kyrie because otherwise their plans would have just been blown up and they'd have been starting from scratch, literally.
00:26 But they've got to define the roles. You've probably seen, you're a hip woman, you've seen the social media meme with Spider-Man, where like three of them are pulling each other.
00:37 That was what Kyrie and Luka were last year. They were like, "You?"
00:40 Remember their first game together? Last shot and they passed the ball like a hot potato and the clock ran out and they were like, "Oh, no problem."
00:47 It was a big problem because that was their first game together and it was all downhill from there.
00:54 They are the best ball handlers, the best playmakers, the best finishers, some of the best three-point shooters that the league has ever seen.
01:03 They've got to be that and decide who's going to do what at which time because what they don't need to do for the Mavericks is be the best deferential players of all time.
01:12 Like, "I want to pass the ball to you and give you the credit." No, sometimes it's Luka, you've got to take the shot.
01:17 Kyrie, sometimes wave Luka off and you take the ball, put it on the ground, you're the best dribbler in the history of the game, take it to the hoop.
01:23 They've got to define those roles though. It's great to have two pieces, but those pieces have got to fit together and that's on them.
01:30 Jason Kidd can coach all he wants, but they've got to get in the gym together and learn each other.
01:36 They didn't have a lot of time last year, but boy, it can't be Spider-Man again this year or the Mavs are going nowhere.
01:42 That makes sense to me.
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