Final: Mavs 107, Rockets 104 Wow. I mean what can you even say? Luka Doncic is unbelievable. That was a special few minutes of basketball thanks to a 19-year-old rookie from Slovenia. Dallas took down Houston tonight thanks to many more players than only Doncic, however. Wesley Matthews had his highest-scoring game since Nov. 6, […]
Final: Rockets 105, Mavs 82 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score The Rockets scored just 48 points in the first half, which tied for their fourth-lowest scoring output through two quarters all season long. Dallas found itself in a 17-3 hole early in the game but recovered to take as much as a […]
Final: Rockets 104, Mavs 97 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score Dennis Smith Jr. extended his streak of consecutive games scoring in double-figures to 21 games, and he’s now all alone in third place on the list of longest such runs by a rookie in franchise history. Next up is Jamal Mashburn at […]
Final: Rockets 104, Mavs 97 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score The Mavericks won the pace battle in the first half, holding the Rockets to just 43 possessions. That’s well below their season average of more than 101 per game. That played to Dallas’ advantage and Houston scored only 51 points in the […]
Final: Rockets 93, Mavs 92 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score Despite shooting only 42.9 percent from the field in the second quarter, the Mavs scored 1.167 points per possession, well above the league average, which usually floats around 1.02. The key? Dallas took 12 free throw attempts and collected five offensive rebounds, […]
Final: Rockets 106, Mavs 98 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score How much room for growth is there in Harrison Barnes’ game? Based on his touches alone, a ton. He’s taken at least 14 shots in both games so far this season. In his four years with the Golden State Warriors, Barnes took […]
Final: Mavs 88, Rockets 86 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score Wesley Matthews drained four 3-pointers tonight. He’s now reached that milestone in seven of his last nine games, including his third straight. He also hit his 177th trey of the season, moving him past Jason Kidd for third on the Mavs’ all-time […]
If the NBA season is a marathon, we’ve passed the 17-mile marker. That isn’t quite the metaphor Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle would use to describe what lies ahead for his team between now and the end of the regular season. Last week coming out of the All-Star break, he called each game a “Super […]
Final: Rockets 115, Mavs 104 Box Score | Highlights Behind the Box Score The Mavs scored 1.318 points per possession in both the first and second quarters, and even scored exactly 29 points in both frames, as well. You rarely see that type of consistency, but Dallas found itself up 58-50 at the break following […]