“It is positively robust” – Kyrie Irving after loss to Sixers

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The Dallas Mavericks veteran guard Kyrie Irving was requested concerning the locker room sentiment following the 116-108 loss in opposition to the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday evening.

“It’s positively robust,” Irving stated. “Emotionally, anytime you lose, particularly whenever you’re popping out of halftime, you’re feeling like you will have management of the sport. You need to undergo rising pains as a workforce. We’re studying one another on the fly and simply studying how you can win ball video games and hold a psychological edge over our opponents irrespective of who we’re enjoying.

“We’re positively studying in that path. However by way of the now, the place we’re controlling our current future as a workforce, going in opposition to the Sixers, I really feel like we had a terrific probability of profitable this sport and simply our poise down the stretch simply wasn’t at a excessive stage that we would have liked to get this win, they usually took full benefit of it.

“They bought to the free throw line. Um, the refs have been calling issues left and proper and our rhythm was damaged after a couple of pictures and that final two minutes didn’t go down. You would see it was carrying on a couple of of our faces. These are simply rising pains that we’re going by means of proper now and the strain cooker of the season and it’s simply robust classes we should be taught and simply develop from.”