Luka Doncic isn’t messing around this season and only has one goal in mind, made even more reachable with Klay Thompson on the team.
He was asked to summarize Dallas’ approach this season. To which he answered, “Championship. That’s the goal.”
A new player who he thinks will be key to the team’s championship hopes is Klay.
“When me and Kai, when we have the ball, you basically can’t help off of Klay,” Doncic said. “Because if you leave him wide open, he’s going to make it. So I think the spacing is going to be crucial for us, but more of that, I will tell you after a couple games.”
Irving shared similar thoughts to his running mate.
“I feel like our dreams can be possible because he’s here now,” Irving said, who played a huge role in the recruitment of Thompson. “He’s added a great value to our championship aspirations.”
Thompson doesn’t expect to jell straight away and explains how he’ll have to get used to a system vastly different to the Warriors’.
“From an X’s and O’s standpoint, I’ll have to adjust to maybe playing off such good creators,” Thompson said. “In Golden State, it was very motion-based offense. But I mean, just being able to play with Luka the last few days, his ability in the pick-and-roll is maybe the best I’ve ever seen. It’ll be fun to play with him in those sets because he draws so much attention and he gets so many open looks for the perimeter. So I’ll be there to knock them down.
“I think it will take a couple weeks just to get used to this new system, but luckily opening night is not until [Oct. 24]. So this preseason might be the most important one I’ve had in so many years, and I can’t wait to get going tomorrow and learn this system. But I do know I’m a hooper, so I can adjust accordingly and I look forward to doing that.”