CHARLOTTE – Here’s our five takeaways from Friday’s 119-118 loss at Washington. OK, it really is five takeaways from one play – the layup Bradley Beal made at the buzzer to win the game. So many things went wrong for the Mavericks on this play, it’s worth five takeaways.
The screen: The play started with Troy Brown Jr. as the trigger man on the inbounds pass. The first thing that went wrong was that Tim Hardaway Jr. didn’t switch fast enough on Beal when Dorian Finney-Smith got picked off by a Mo Wagner screen.