DALLAS—Nick Nurse talked in the lead-up to Friday’s Raptors-Mavericks game about the exhaustive game-planning required to try and stop Dallas superstar Luka Doncic.
How do you thwart the NBA’s deadliest scorer of the moment?
“It’s multiple schemes and it’s multiple defenders,” the Raptors coach said. “And then you’ve got to try and execute them.”
For all Nurse’s renowned moving of the chess pieces, nothing much seemed to work against Doncic. The Slovenian savant needed just three quarters of work to reel off his eighth straight 30-point game to open the season, finishing the third with 31 points; only Wilt Chamberlain began an NBA campaign with a longer run of such scoring performances.