Luka Doncic spun and spun and spun, eventually leaning back and pouring in a fadeaway two over Sam Hauser’s head. The second-year forward watched shot after shot rise up toward the rafters and down through the rim during a torturous Thanksgiving Eve for Boston’s switching defenders. But they knew they’d need to live giving up some of them.
“Know what you need to live with and know what you need to take away,” Joe Mazzulla said pre-game. “He can get it in a lot of different ways.”
Two proved better than one for the Celtics, who received 68 points, 17 rebound and nine assists from Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum as the league’s most powerful offense built a 27-point lead and answered each Dallas run on the way to a 125-112 win.