Mavs notebook: Trendy old play for Mavs has been working

HOUSTON — Nobody could have predicted that the intentionally missed free throw would be all the rage in the final days of 2022.

In two of the three games to end the calendar year, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 had to utilize the intentional miss – once to try to win the game and once to try to keep the other team from getting a chance to tie or win.

“I don’t think he’s practiced those,” Kidd said pregame.

Could have fooled us.

The missed free throw has been around forever. But it just doesn’t work very often. That said, it has been executed perfectly by Luka twice. First, it led to Luka’s bucket that forced overtime against New York. Then he missed and got his own rebound against San Antonio on…