of Dallas Mavericks withheld Denver Nuggets, won 116-115 on the streets of Denver on Tuesday night. It’s hard to imagine a more impressive road win for this Dallas team, who has just achieved his 2-8 record from home this season.
Luka Doncic had a “silent” triple-double of 22 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists for the 52nd time, but it wasn’t always pretty. His five turnovers, especially two in the fourth, were uncharacteristic as Dallas struggled to score and gave up a 10-point lead late in the frame. In Dallas it was Tim Hardaway Jr. who led the way with 29 points. It’s the fifth time this season that a Maverick other than Luka Doncic has led the team in scoring.
Denver’s scoring was typically even with all five starters scoring in double figures, but Aaron Gordon led with 27 and Bones Hyland scored 20 off the bench.
Despite leading 10, 111-101 with just 4:07 remaining, Dallas went cold and failed to score for nearly four minutes in the game. Denver took the lead with the Blues on his Brown 3 in the closing stages and he gave the Nuggets his 112-111 advantage with just 37 seconds left. Dorian Finney-Smith’s above-the-break three-point shot answered the Mavs’ cold shot to break and re-establish the lead. clinched their best win of the season.
true grit
After Dallas lost 5 of 6 games, things turned bleak, culminating in an uncomfortable loss at the hands of the bottom-placed Pistons.Even if I beat my opponent, I left a bad taste Knicks And Sun couldn’t be completely eliminated from the palette of Mabus fans.
But in a winning streak against a team with a strong home record, the Mavericks feel like they’ve turned the page on early-season funk.
bless this mess
Both teams’ sizable shooting numbers mask a slightly ugly game. Dallas, for one, had a higher-than-average 17 turnovers. A string of turnovers to start the third quarter saw Dallas lose the 6-point lead they had built heading into halftime, leaving them 2 behind Denver, but leveling the ships with a 10-4 run. Did.
Whistles were also hard to ignore. So far this year, the teams have averaged around 20 fouls each, with both the Mavs and Nuggets topping that with 32 and 28 respectively, a flow that usually occurs on good shooting nights. is killing
Hustle till the end
Amid the depth of the recent downturn, Dallas has found itself on the wrong side of a lopsided rebounding battle.
The Mavericks’ willingness to hustle is tied to some extent with their ability to make shots. So it’s a good sign that they didn’t pull away from the board even when they were having a hard time with tired legs leading to many missed shots of him.
Dallas won the rebounding battle in the fourth quarter, 10-8.
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