Last night, I was flipping through TikTok in the middle of an edible comedy, and I stumbled across something so ridiculous, so outrageous, so brilliant, that I couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it before. . It’s called Maverwatch and is a 2018 hype video for the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, which features the team’s star players doubling down on points. guard figure.
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Edited to look like a guard gameplay clip of the game, highlighting a particularly creepy (usually multiplayer) gameplay at the end of each match, this minute-long video is like something my super brain has come up with in a daydream. But not so. This clip is real and every second moves, an eerie mix of car wreck tragedy and heart-wrenching comedy. However, you can’t deny that the editing is top-notch, with all-too-familiar dings indicating a guard kill guard The font represents his ability to “eliminate” stunted rival players, and the in-game music pops in between each time the wooden NBA player delivers a hero’s line.
In general, athletes are not known for their acting skills and reading lines. In the rare chance that you get an athlete with a great personality who can actually speak in dialogue without being like a kid forced to read aloud in class, the teams will push them to the top in the class. marketing materials and commercial opportunities (Eli Manning, Tom Brady) or even having them star in films (LeBron James, Michael Jordan). I can confidently say that no player of the 2018 Dallas Mavericks is the same je ne sais quoi like James or Brady, but that just makes the Maverwatch experience better.
The man behind the Maverwatch
The clip begins with Dirk Nowitzki mimicking Soldier: 76’s ultimate skill line (“I’ve got you in my sights”) while pretending to activate an imaginary visor before moving on to the The clip shows him sinking three people.
“Dirk got Soldier because he was the tough old leader of the team,” says Austin Guttery, a former in-game vehicle creator for the Dallas Mavericks and creator of Maverwatch. Kotaku via email.
The second player to be marked is former Mavs center Deandre Jordan, who pretends to cast his ultimate Lucio (“oh, break it”) with the nickname “Shootscio.” Help me. Guttery explained: “Jordan got Lucio because of his great defensive play and ability to keep the team alive.
But when it’s time to assign protection points to Mavericks and Grandmaster guard player Luka Doncic single character, things get a little hotter. “Luka really wanted to be Hanzo, because that’s who he usually plays, but there is one player on the team, Wes Matthews, who is famous for pretending to shoot a bow after every shot in games, because so of course we HAVE to turn him into Hanzo,” Guttery said. “I chose Luka as Junkrat because of his blonde hair. Luka was a bit salty and tried to convince us to turn him into Hanzo, but we’re done shooting Wes’s part and we only have one quick shot per player per year.
Other players are assigned based on any connections Guttery can make between them and a guard hero—or if he thinks they can manage to create a pantomime good enough for a character’s moves. No, I couldn’t stop laughing when Luka pretended to pull the Junkrat RIP-Tire.
Besides the movie that comes with their Mavs player designation guard partner, Guttery says it took a long time for him to approve the video because his boss “didn’t really know what guard used to be.” But tell him Doncic is a giant guard fans “actually helped sell it.” The clip was filmed during the team’s media day and aired on screens in the stadium during a lull in gameplay to a “pretty good response” from fans.
But when Guttery shared the video on Redditmaybe where this TikToker found it, he got into a bit of trouble.
“I almost got fired!” he happily recounted. “Once our videos air in-game, we usually don’t put them online until after the season or unless we have permission from the developer. [owner Mark] Cuba to run them. But I was so excited about how this one turned out, I really wanted to see what it was like. guard community will react to it. So I posted it on Reddit and the same day it SUMMARY…It finally caught the eye of my boss, who was, um, pretty upset that it was out there, and he was scared that if Cuba Seeing this, we won’t be making videos for them anymore so I’m taking it down. Luckily, Cuban never knew about it, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
But guard developer Blizzard actually watched the video and sent Guttery a “really beautiful Widowmaker character” that the team displayed at the office. And now, that same video is causing a fever on social networks. Time is a flat circle, but Luka Doncic is no longer Hanzo’s mainstay. Now it’s Zarya.
