The Mavs Played Well Over the First Three Quarters

It's not exactly a mystery why the Sixers aren't connected or why they aren't performing defensively. But I do agree that like the stretches of competence should be a little bit more common, right? Even things as simple as just like, okay, we're going to run a lot of offense through Kyrie to establish Luca off the ball and run stuff through him later. Like it didn't pay off in the fourth quarter in the way they wanted because Philly's defense kind of solved them a little bit. You can see the outlines of some things that could work. It's just they haven't been.