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Originally Posted by chumdawg
The point total (48) in itself has very little to do with it. It's the fact that he scored every point for his team from the eight-minute mark on, and that he basically singlehandedly overcame a very good defensive team on their own home floor. And that they would have been facing almost certain elimination, you would think, if they had lost the game.
Dirk's game was a brilliant one, to be sure. But the circumstances were not quite the same.
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The Mavericks were down 70-77 late in the 3rd quarter. Dirk then precedes to score 25 in the next 15 minutes to help blow out the Suns.