Pretty decent game. A few thoughts
1) We had one of our best 3rd quarters of this season, which was a nice surprise.
2) Our big run began with some defense. As soon as we got two straight stops, we began to rebound and destroy the Phoenix defense. Admittedly Phoenix is only middle of the pack in rebounding and one of the league's worst defenses, but it was pretty amazing to see how the Mavs could suddenly secure every board and score every possession for a period of a few minutes.
3) Wright was huge for us in the fourth. 8pts (4-5 shooting), 4reb, 1stl, 1blk and a lot of deflections at very important times. 10 of the first 11 points in the fourth were either Wright or Mayo and Wright kept us in the game even as Carter and Collison missed shots and turned it over.
4) After wright kept us treading water, we had some big FT performances by Carter and Collison (6-6 Collison, 4-4 Carter) to seal the deal.
5) Injuries-- Marion has another strained muscle and Kaman has a sprained ankle. Not a good time to be thin on guys, but neither injury seemed too serious.
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