Mavs 93 Blazers 89

[DavidDaMonkey]

Originally Posted by ghazi

Great win for our beloved Mavs tonight, we went out there and beat a team we were supposed to beat.

The zone defense seemed to disrupt the flow of an explosive blazers offense. We had trouble hitting 3-POINTERS tonight, I kept thinking how many "dagger" opportunities we had, but never the less we held on and answered every blazer run.

Brilliance from Dirk and Terry yet again tonight. GREAT game by Damp's standards. Truly everyone played well, but I was vexed by quite a few plays Wright and Barea made. Boneheaded errors.

GOD BLESS OUR BELOVED DIRK.

Never the less, great win for the Mavs. We just beat a team we were supposed to beat. Let's continue winning on this road trip, Warriors coming up next.

I can sleep easy tonight

I love the recaps Ghazi, but can we stop with the "beating a team we are supposed to beat" stuff? Thunder, Wizards, Grizzlies, yes. Those are all teams we are supposed to beat. Portland (who is ahead of us), on the second night of a b2b in which we played hard the night before, on the road, and against a team with something to fight for; I don't call that a game that we are supposed to win.

Which teams AREN'T we supposed to beat? The Lakers and the Celtics? Is that it?

This was a game in which the Mavs had to fight and play some good solid basketball to keep it going, and good on them for doing it. Lets not belittle a GREAT win with "beating a team we are supposed to beat"