By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After a 40-point triple-double, Luka Doncic scored 22 points in the 154-111 blowout defeat of the Mavs to the Clippers.
However, the play that marked Game 5 for his was Marcus Morris stepping on his injured ankle. Doncic was asked if he thought that this move was intentional.
“I have my own thoughts,” said Doncic, before turning to the reporter with raised eyebrows. “I hope it wasn’t intentional. Tell me what you think. I just hope it wasn’t intentional, but every person is going to have their own thoughts. Just move on from it.”
Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, who was ejected from the game in the third quarter, also said he hoped Morris didn’t intentionally step on Doncic’s injured ankle.
“That’s all I’ll say about it,” Carlisle said.
“I don’t want to talk to him,” Doncic said about Morris. “He’s just saying a lot of bad stuff to me all the game. I just don’t want to talk to him. I just want to move on. Like I say, everybody is going to have their own opinion. I just hope it wasn’t intentional. If that was intentional, that’s really bad.”
“I play this game with a level of respect for myself and other players. To think I would try to injure somebody is crazy to me,” Morris wrote on Twitter after the game. “10 years going against the best. I stand on morals and hard work. I compete and leave it out there every game.”