HOUSTON — Christian Wood doesn’t know how he thought of the analogy to describe his budding friendship with Luka Doncic. Maybe he felt hungry after a 21-point, ...
Or maybe he wanted some dessert to celebrate Dallas’ first seven-game winning streak since the 2011 championship season.hoped.
As a Rick Carlisle assistant during Doncic’s first two NBA seasons, Silas also knows: “That’s Luka, too. They [both] enjoy moments where they can joke around and get on each other at times, but it’s all in fun, and once they get to the court, it’s business.”Of the Mavericks’ 10 two-player lineup combinations to play at least 600 minutes together this season, the Doncic-Wood pairing ranked second in offensive rating , second in defensive rating and third in net rating over 32 games.
In simpler terms: The Mavericks are 7-1 in games Doncic and Wood have started together, all since Dec. 19. Perhaps not happy all the time, such as a couple of weeks ago when Doncic barked at Wood during a break in play in Minnesota because Wood didn’t follow his direction for a double-team pick.
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