With the aggregation disturbing adjoin the conference’s elite, the Mavericks will try for an alternation breach at home adjoin the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night.
Particularly arresting was the team’s poor aegis to abutting out the stretch. The Mavericks gave up 100 or added credibility in three of their aftermost four amateur and they bankrupt the cruise with 104-96 accident at Portland on Sunday afterwards acceptance the Trail Blazers to shoot 53.4 percent.
Shawn Marion had 19 credibility and Dirk Nowitzki added 16, sitting out the final 4:20. Tyson Chandler absent the bold with an abscessed lower back. He is day-to-day.
Dallas has breach its aftermost 16 games, but best apropos is that it has absent eight beeline to teams in the Western Conference playoff race.
Dallas has absent two of three to Denver (47-30) while giving up a boilerplate of 108.3 points. This will be the aboriginal time the teams accept met back the Nuggets dealt Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups in February.
Denver had a three-point advance at the end of the third quarter, but the Thunder went on a 16-0 run aboriginal in the fourth to booty control. It was the aboriginal time in bristles amateur the Nuggets gave up added than 94 points.
“We haven’t played as boilerplate as we played at times today in a continued time,”coach George Karl said.
Ty Lawson accomplished with 28 credibility on 10-of-18 cutting while Danilo Gallinari had 17 credibility and six rebounds. Denver was outrebounded 50-41.
It was alone the Nuggets’ fifth accident in the aftermost 21 games, but a cher one as they fell four amateur abaft Oklahoma City for fourth abode and home-court advantage in the aboriginal annular with bristles amateur remaining.
Depth could be an affair as Denver prepares for the playoffs. The Nuggets were afterwards Aaron Afflalo (hamstring) and Chris Anderson (ankle) Tuesday whileTimofey Mozgov larboard in the aboriginal division afterwards spraining his larboard knee and ankle. Watch Live Online
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