The Portland Trail Blazers ran all kinds of guards at the Dallas Mavericks as the two teams collided on Friday night. Portland countered 32 points and 10 assists from Luka Doncic with 30 from Anfernee Simons and 24 from Shaedon Sharpe.
The real story of the game happened among the players surrounding the stars. When Doncic wasn’t scoring, he found teammates capable of catching alley-oops, hitting threes, and grabbing offensive rebounds to give his team a second chance. Portland’s guards might as well have been tossing the ball into a wood chipper. Rasheed Wallace would have been proud, as everyone on Portland’s side played hard.