Official GDT: GS @ Dallas Series 1 Game 5

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Team Report: Getting Inside

The Mavericks may have the MVP in Dirk Nowitzki. What they've been searching for is a voice. "That's one thing we have been missing," Josh Howard said. "Not to take anything away from Dirk, it's just like nobody's really been saying much."

They had better speak up soon. The Mavs leave the Bay Area for Dallas trailing 3-1, and unless they run off a three-game winning streak, they'll go down as the first No. 1 seed ever to lose to an eighth seed in a best-of-seven series.
"If there's a team that can come back and win three in row," Warriors coach Don Nelson said, "that's the team that can do it."

REPLAY: The ever-resilient Warriors swallowed the defending Western Conference champions in an avalanche of sound and fourth-quarter three-pointers Sunday night at Oracle Arena. The 103-99 victory moved Golden State to within one win of the conference semifinals with three games to do it in.


Visions of a championship for Dallas have been replaced by a dead-eye focus on Game 5, the first true must-win for the Mavs since Game 6 of the NBA Finals.

They lost that one, putting the finishing touches on a four-game collapse to Miami. Losing to a team that needed to win on the last game of the regular season just to get into the playoffs may be more painful.

The Mavs wanted to treat Sunday as a Game 7 and they played as if their season hung in the balance for long stretches. But the Warriors had flashes throughout that swung momentum that ultimately proved the difference.

Dallas held leads of nine points in each of the first three quarters. At the end of the second and third, Baron Davis (33 points) hit shots, including a half-court buzzer-beater, to tie the game. Golden State overcame an 88-81 deficit with seven minutes left.

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