“Look,” Carlisle said, “when we won the championship, we didn’t call anything.” That’s because Carlisle trusted Kidd, a basketball savant in his 16th NBA season at the time, to orchestrate the offense. Carlisle sees similar savvy in Doncic, who began playing professionally for Real Madrid at the ripe age of 15. “I always ask him, ‘What do you want to run?’” Doncic said of his coach. “During the game, he lets me call the plays. It’s good. It lets the game go and play more with pace. I think it’s the best basketball to play.”