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A tipped cross was solely the beginning of the pandemonium between the Dallas Mavericks and Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday.
The enjoyable started with the Mavericks down 118-117 and eight.3 seconds left. Mavericks ahead Maxi Kleber practically misplaced the sport with a mistimed cross to Luka Doncic, who nonetheless got here down with the ball and drove to the basket for an try at a game-winner.
Understandably, most Cavaliers defenders collapsed on Doncic. That left Mavericks ahead P.J. Washington large open beneath the basket for a go-ahead layup.
Sadly for the Mavericks, that left 2.6 seconds on the clock, which was simply sufficient time for Cavaliers wing Max Strus to get the ball and hit a 59-foot buzzer-beater to blow the roof off the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.
Cavaliers win, 121-119.
One other angle:
That is not even the top of the craziness at work right here from Strus. This is how ever Cavaliers possession ended within the closing 4 minutes:
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Max Strus 3-pointer
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Max Strus 3-pointer
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Max Strus 3-pointer
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Max Strus 3-pointer
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Donovan Mitchell 3-pointer (off a Strus rebound)
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Darius Garland miss
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Donovan Mitchell miss
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Donovan Mitchell 3-pointer
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Evan Mobley turnover
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Max Strus 3-pointer
The Cavaliers began that stretch down 110-100 and proceeded to attain 21 factors in 4 minutes, 15 of which got here from Strus (and all of which got here from 3-pointers).
Strus completed the sport with 21 factors on 7-of-12 taking pictures (7-of-10 from deep), which was simply sufficient to spoil Doncic’s big night time of 45 factors, 14 assists, 9 rebounds, three steals and one turnover. To this point, it has been a reasonably strong season since Strus signed a four-year, $63 million sign-and-trade with Cleveland.
