He didn’t look back. He looked ahead and said the Mavs were just getting started. Turns out, he was right.DALLAS — Kyrie Irving was not making a threat, nor was he boasting, nor was he saying anything that would be considered outlandish. It was the final week of the regular season. He and the“We just know that the job isn’t finished,” Irving said in Miami that night. “And we’re just getting started.
“It doesn’t happen a lot of times you go from the lottery to the finals," Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said."But we truly believe that we had the pieces.” “That’s the type of confidence that I felt the majority of this playoffs, just no matter what’s going on — in the beginning of the game, middle of the game, before the game — our words of affirmation and positivity go a long way,” Irving said.