Well, it seems that the other shoe finally dropped for the Los Angeles Lakers. The team was playing with fire throughout the road trip with their uneven play despite sweeping all four games.
With the slippage of transition defense and rebounding totals, a game like this was bound to happen at some point. Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks probably thought the first matchup with the Lakers was a combination of luck and just plain giving the game away.
Either way, the Mavs staked a major claim to that theory after they snapped the Lakers’ 10-game winning streak, winning 114-100.