 JT versus Luca. Great ball movement ends up with a JB triple and a chance at a four point play. Jaylin Brown is about this life. And welcome into Celtics post game live. Chris Mannix, Amina Smith here with the Celtics beating the Dallas Mavericks 119 to 110 down there in Dallas. And now the Celtics team, they start this three game road trip two and oh. And really this Mavericks team, they hung around this entire matchup. Mannix, what was the storyline of this game for you? The play of Jaylin Brown and Jason Tatum unquestionably. Jason Tatum leading the team in scoring plus 28 overall set in its home for this team in the first half. And Jaylin Brown, look, I don't care what the box score says. Jaylin, Luca Donchich had this glossy triple double Jaylin Brown, officially a minus five, which tells you how stupid plus minus is. Jaylin Brown outplayed Luca Donchich in this game. Simple as that. He was better defensively. He made clutch shots. He took the ball to Luca in big time situations. Jaylin Brown was the better player in this game than Luca Donchich. And that's a big reason why the Celtics came out with the win. Yeah, both Luca Donchich and Jaylin Brown going one on one in this matchup tonight. And just like you mentioned, Jaylin Brown, he won that matchup. Well, Jaylin Brown is also with Abby Chin after this win, Jaylin playing on the second night of a back to back. You guys came only went eight deep. And there was just a heightened level in intensity throughout this game. Why did you guys want this one so badly? Just a mindset game, you know, we wanted to come out play a little bit better than we've been playing before. Even though we won last game in Houston, we wanted to come out with the right mentality and right mindset. So today we came out from the jump. We were ready to go. What was your mindset in the fourth quarter that Mavs cut it down and didn't go away and you came in and closed this game out? Just keep being aggressive, you know. Defensively, we made some stops. But offensively, we just kept putting pressure on them. I feel like I settled a lot down the line. But I feel like we got a good rhythm and we found a way to win. Did you ask to guard Luca? You're checking in for large stretches of this game? No, but I feel like I'm one of the better defenders in the league, if not the better defender in the league. So it's a challenge that I feel like should be bestowed on me. So, you know, whatever night, you know, my body's in a different shape. I'm guarding the best players night to night. You made him work forward on the other end as well. Can you take me through when you dropped him in the second quarter? Do you remember that? This being aggressive, it happens as a part of basketball. You know, I respected for getting out there and trying, you know, even in the second half, instead of trying to hide them, they tried to put him on me, you know. And he got some stops towards the end of the game. So respect to him, but it's a part of basketball. Just come out and play hard. Finally, what does it tell you about this team that you guys were able to come in here in this Texas two-step as well and maintain the mentality that you wanted? Um, I think it was great. You know, this is a tough part of the season. And like, mindset and mentality is going to shine through. And this was a good example of that tonight. On the back-to-back, team came out, started out hard, and we just was able to roll on. Down to God, KPR, big fella wasn't planned, but we found a way to get a win anyway. Jalen, thank you. Congratulations. You're welcome. Iskall and Drew Carter joining us live right now from Dallas. And you heard Jalen Brown talking about it in their interview right there. He believes that he's one of the better defenders in this league. Iskall, he went one-on-one with Luka Donchich tonight. What did you think of that matchup? Yeah, I'm stamping him. I like the fact that I had no idea how they were going to match up. I thought maybe Holiday would guard him, but Holiday was on Kyrie Irving. And I wonder if Jalen Brown asked Joe Mozula, like, I want to be an all defensive player. I want to be defensive player of the year, whatever. I want to guard Luka Donchich. And I thought Jalen Brown had that energy. Remember, Dallas had the four days off. The Boston Celtics on it back-to-back. And it felt like the guys who had the energy were Brown and Tatum. And I think one of the most impressive games Jason Tatum played this year, guys, was against OKC, even though the Celtics ended up losing that game. And the reason is he went and he defended Shaquille just Alexander in the fourth quarter. So if both those guys are requesting those individual matchups, I think that's a really good sign for the camaraderie and the sacrifices they're willing to make. Yeah. And Iskall, you've seen a lot of impressive wins by the Celtics this season. To me, this ranks right up there. A third game in four nights coming off of back-to-back against the team that was healthy and had not played since this past Wednesday. And I mean, we've seen some great games from Jalen Brown. I mean, I just said this a moment ago that Jalen Brown's a minus six tells me that plus minus is the dumbest statistic that's out there because Jalen Brown was phenomenal throughout the course of this game. And, you know, I just ranked that performance and this game right up there with any that we've seen this season. I do think it was good to shake off. Like, I don't, I know we beat Houston, but I don't think we played well. And then obviously in the fourth quarter, we were awful against Denver. So it was good to shake off that rust and remind Celtic fans and everybody that this is a championship level team because they have so many different ways to win. And I just love the pace and that they ran their offense. I love the attack that they had. The only time they dribbled the ball is when they should have, which was late in the game to kind of play the clock game. So, yeah, I think it's an impressive win. And it felt like they had the pulse of the game. Besides the one three that Luca hit, and you're like, whoa, is Dallas going to make a run outside of that? Like, it felt like they really controlled this game. How surprised were you by that one-on-one matchup between Jalen Brown and Luca Dantridge and that moment where he did put Luca on his behind on the court? I loved it. I mean it. I actually, I wasn't surprised. And Scout can back me on this. You asked me, who do I think would guard Luke at the start? I said maybe JB, because I felt like his size and his strength would be the best match. I know Drew is really strong, but Luca's got a few inches on him. I thought Brown was probably the right matchup. And then on offense, obviously, it worked out pretty well as well. It's not going to get all that. You hit it right on point, Scout. When you guys were doing a play of the game, I was like, I could not hold it together. I was like, Scout is on point with that one. Amina, is it better to go, or Scout? I'm going to mess myself up and talk about, I like the second one though. I like the second one. As is often the case on post-game, Scout is the most negative one here. As is routinely the case.