01 May 2008 18:30:05

Patricia Bender

Mavs News: New Orleans Game 5, Avery fired

Game 5: Dallas at New Orleans (April 29) Prior to the start of Game 5, New Orleans coach Byron Scott received the Coach of the Year award. The game started with New Orleans holding small leads. You could tell early on that the ref crew was going to let a lot of contact go and not call much (for both teams). A 3-pointer by Jason Kidd tied the game at 5-5 with 9:30 remaining, but New Orleans then went on a 19-8 run, capped by a 3-point play by David West, to go up 24-13 with 2:30 to go. Jason Terry hit a 3-pointer with 24 seconds left in the quarter for the last points of the quarter. New Orleans led 28-22 after 1. The teams traded buckets to open the 2nd quarter and Dallas then went on an 8-2 run, capped by a 3-point play by Jerry Stackhouse, to tie the game at 32-32 with 8:45 left. New Orleans led 37-36 with 5:50 remaining, and closed the quarter with a 17-3 run as Dallas missed their last 7 shots of the quarter. New Orleans led 54-39 at the half. After shooting 10-19 FG in the 1st quarter, Dallas reverted to the cold-shooting ways and only shot 6-17 FG in the 2nd quarter (including a mere 2-13 FG in the last 8 1/2 minutes of the quarter), while New Orleans was a white hot 11-18 FG including 3-3 3-pointers. New Orleans out-scored Dallas 26-17 in the 2nd quarter. Chris Paul had 11 assists in the half. Terry opened the 3rd quarter with 2 3-pointers to pull Dallas within 45-54 with 10:35 to go as the Hornets missed their first 4 shots. The Hornets finally got on the board 2 1/2 minutes into the quarter with a 3-pointer by Morris Peterson. 2 free throws by Brandon Bass and a jumper by Dirk Nowitzki pulled Dallas within 57-63 with 5:20 left. After misses by both teams, Paul hit a runner and a 3-pointer, but Dallas got consecutive dunks to keep the Hornets' lead in single-digits. New Orleans led 71-63 after 3. Dallas out-scored New Orleans 24-17 in the 3rd quarter. Terry had 10 points in the quarter. New Orleans led 73-66 with 10 minutes remaining and they then went on an 11-1 run to go up 84-67 with 7 minutes remaining. Late in the run, Dallas inserted Devean George (for the first time of the game) and he provided Dallas with a spark as the team did not roll over facing such a large deficit as Dallas started chipping away at New Orleans' lead. George hit a 3-pointer, Julian Wright got a layup. Kidd got a layup, Jannero Pargo hit 1-2 FT, Nowitzki hit 2 free throws, and George got a layup to pull Dallas within 76-87 with 4:10 left. The teams traded buckets and West hit 2 free throws. Kidd hit a 3-pointer, Paul hit a jumper, Nowitzki hit a 3, Paul hit a jumper, and George hit a 3-pointer to pull Dallas within 87-95 with 1:50 left. Stackhouse stupidly picked up a technical foul for knocking the ball out of Paul's hands during a deadball and Stackhouse was ejected as it was his 2nd technical (he and Paul picked up double-technicals in the 2nd quarter for a minor incident). New Orleans hit 2 free throws, Nowitzki drove for 2, Pargo missed 2 free throws, and George hit another 3-pointer. West missed, Dallas missed on 2 3-point attempts, but Bass was fouled getting an offensive rebound. He hit both free throws to pull Dallas within 94-97 with 33 seconds remaining. New Orleans ran the clock down and Paul missed, but Tyson Chandler tapped the rebound out [don't know how Paul got credited with that rebound as the offensive board was purely due to Chandler - maybe the local stats people wanting to see Paul get a triple-double (he got his 11th rebound on the last miss of the game)] and Peja Stojakovic was intentionally fouled with 5 seconds left. He hit both free throws to ice the game. Nowitzki missed a 3-pointer near the game's end and that was Dallas' season. New Orleans won 99-94. New Orleans took the series 4-1 to eliminate Dallas from the playoffs. Once again, it was another poor shooting outing for Dallas, but give New Orleans credit - they simply hit a lot of tough, tough shots. The Hornets were clearly the better team in the series and deserved the wins. Dallas made life easier for the Hornets by being ice cold in most of the games - only in Game 2 (where they shot 47% FG - but New Orleans shot 61% FG) did Dallas shot better than 43% FG. Well, that's one of the few areas that Dallas showed some consistency: during the regular season, Dallas was 12-24 when they shot less than 44% FG and they were 1-3 in the playoffs when shooting less than 44% FG. So it was once again a short post-season and Dallas faces many questions for the off-season (more on that below). For Game 5, Dallas never led in the game. New Orleans shot 48.7% (38-78) FG including 8-14 3-pointers and Dallas shot 42.7% (35-82) FG including 9-26 3-pointers (including 5-12 in the 4th quarter). New Orleans shot 15-20 FT and Dallas shot 15-19 FT [low free throw numbers for both teams not due to a non-physical game, but the refs simply not calling much]. New Orleans had a slight rebounding edge at 42-41, but Dallas had the offensive boards edge at 15-12 - but the Hornets got the key rebound at the end that sealed the win. Both teams did a good job of moving the ball as New Orleans had 23 assists and Dallas had 25 assists - and they were fairly clean with the ball as each team had just 8 turnovers. Chris Paul enjoyed his return to New Orleans, where he shined in games 1 and 2. He had a triple-double with 24 points, 11 rebounds, and 15 assists - and he didn't have a turnover. David West again had a solid outing with 25 points including 10-17 FG, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 blocks. Peja Stojakovic never got his shot going in shooting a mere 2-12 FG (and 2-4 3-pointers), but hit the game clinching free throws at the end. He had 11 points and 6 rebounds. After a poor outing in Game 4, Tyson Chandler recovered and had a double-double with 10 points, 14 rebounds including 7 offensive (and not credited with the key offensive board near the end of the game), and 3 blocks. Morris Peterson had just 6 points on 2-6 FG and 2-3 3-pointers in 17 minutes. His minutes were again limited by Jannero Pargo having another great outing. Pargo had 17 points on 7-9 FG, 2-3 3-pointers, and 1-4 FT. Julian Wright had 6 points, 1 rebound, and 3 steals in 13 minutes. Bonzi Wells missed 2 shots and had 1 assist in 9 minutes. And Hilton Armstrong had no stats in 3 minutes. Though he still put up numbers, Dirk Nowitzki did not have a stellar game. He did play all 48 minutes and had 22 points including 8-21 FG and 1-5 3-pointers, 13 rebounds, and 6 assists. Josh Howard showed promise early on where he hit all 4 of his shots for 8 points in the 1st quarter, but he reverted back to his playoff form and shot just 2-10 FG the rest of the way. He did not attempt a free throw in the game (more a result of the low whistles than not attacking the basket). Due to his poor play, he sat the last 9 minutes of the game. He did have 9 rebounds, though. Jason Kidd also started strong with 7 of his 14 points coming in the first 6 minutes of the game. He had 9 assists, no turnovers, and 4 rebounds in his 41 minutes. Jason Terry's offense only showed up for 1 quarter as he scored 10 of his 13 points in the 3rd quarter (with a 3-pointer at the end of the 1st quarter). He shot just 4-11 FG, but did have 9 assists with 4 of those coming in the last 4 minutes of the game. Erick Dampier remained a no-show for the series and played just 7 1/2 minutes as Avery Johnson opted to go with Brandon Bass. Damp missed his only shot and had 2 fouls for his only stats - no points and no rebounds from Dallas' starting center. Bass remained the only bright spot from a lost season as he had 11 points and 9 rebounds in 35 minutes. He did miss a free throw during the game, but that was the only free throw he missed the whole series (24-25 FT for the series - not bad for a player who shot just 68.6% FG in his first 2 seasons in the league). Jerry Stackhouse showed signs of life after being completely MIA in the first 4 games (7-26 FG in those games). 7 of his 11 points came in the 2nd quarter. He shot 5-12 FG (but missed all 4 3-point attempts) and had 4 rebounds in 27 minutes. All 11 of Devean George's points came in the last 7 1/2 minutes of the game - as did all of his court time. He shot 4-5 FG and 3-4 3-pointers. Tyronn Lue saw a minute of action at the end of the 3rd quarter and missed his only shot and had 1 rebound for his only stats. It was a short rotation for Dallas with just 8 players playing plus a minute for Lue. Dallas took one whole day to start making changes to the team. Dallas fired head coach Avery Johnson on Wednesday. No surprise here that the firing came so quick - Mark Cuban isn't one to drag things along once he makes a decision and it was obvious that the firing was going to come (the only way Avery was going to keep his job was if he took the team far into the playoffs). It's not often that you can pinpoint when a coach losses his job. In this case, it happened on February 28 when Johnson elected to sit Jason Kidd at the end of the San Antonio close loss - that a came less than 2 weeks after the Mavs acquired Kidd and Johnson comments at the time of the trade of how good it would be to have a veteran presence at the end of close games. Add that major coaching mistake to Cuban yelling at Johnson after a game a few days later (and then the 2, of course, down playing the confrontation) and it was obvious that Johnson's head was on the chopping block. What made Johnson a good coach was also the cause of his downfall in Dallas - his intensity and stubbornness. A coach with his type of intensity is always going to lose his players' attention (as in thoughts of 'Here he goes again') the longer he is around and it is going to be more grating when the team struggles, as Dallas did this season. And his stubbornness of 'My way is the right way and the only way' went to an extreme this season. At least last season, assistant Del Harris was able to bend his ear some, but this season Johnson often completely ignored his assistants and took very little input from his assistants (if any - trickle-down comments have been very poor regarding Johnson's interaction with his assistants this season). Getting fired was probably the best thing that could happen to Johnson's coaching career. He needed a kick in the tail to realize some of his coaching mistakes (listen to others and don't be so controlling during games) - and that wasn't going to occur if he stayed in Dallas. He has already recognized one of his problems in answering that he would have given point guard Devin Harris a little more control earlier when asked what would he change if he could do things over. Johnson will quickly be snatched up as head coach by another team - reports already are that Chicago is interested - and will likely have a long NBA career as a coach. Johnson officially finished with a coaching record (not including games where he filled in for Don Nelson when Nelson was attending to his wife) with Dallas of 194-70 for the regular season and 23-24 in the playoffs, including a mere 3-14 in the last 3 series. As for Dallas' next coach, don't expect a quick approach there. Dallas will have to interview a number of candidates to find a (hopefully) good fit for both the team and the owner - don't expect a college coach, though. Lots of names are being thrown out right now, but most of them won't even get interviews - it's like trade speculation: lots of talk by the media that has little reflection on what the team is really doing. As for the players, lots of questions there. Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, and Brandon Bass are about the only Mavs players guaranteed to be back. The only way the team would trade Nowitzki is if they are completely blowing the team up and starting from scratch - and they should give the Nowitzki-Kidd duo at least 1/2 season (including going through a training camp together) to see if it can work [and this from an anti-Kidd person]. Then if it is not working, Kidd becomes a very valuable trading chip prior to the trade deadline as his contract is up next summer and he'll earn $21 million next season. Bass is under contract for another season at a cheap amount and was the only bright spot from the season. Yeah, he was also inconsistent, but he is also still very young (turned 23 yesterday) and seemed to show a willness and ability to learn and improve. His biggest weakness right now is he is completely clueless as to what to do when double-teamed - teams exploited that late in the season. A month ago, I would have been very surprised if they traded Josh Howard. Now I'd be surprised if they don't. Howard made some very dumb off-court decisions during the playoffs as well as having extremely poor games in all 5 playoff games. Howard (without informing the team) had a radio interview where one of the 3 things he wanted to talk about was his marijuana use (as in he doesn't think using the illegal drug is an issue) - this interview, initiated by Howard, came on the day of Game 3 with Dallas down 0-2; not a distraction the team needed. Then prior to Game 4, he handed out notices about a birthday party for himself to be held at a club that night to celebrate Howard's 28th birthday. The next day, a furious Avery Johnson demanded to know who else attended the party (3 or 4 players did) and Johnson cancelled practice in saying the players weren't taking things seriously - Johnson had instituted a "no party" policy prior to the start of the playoffs. To the players' credit, they went ahead and held a players-only practice anyway. To the coach's credit, he didn't throw Howard under the bus in explaining why practice was cancelled (said that he just wanted to rest the players' legs) and the real reason didn't leak until the following day. So, 2 bone-head decisions by what was supposed to be a veteran player that had to sour the team's opinion of Howard (I know it did sour my opinion of him). But Howard still probably has good value on the trading market as he is a near All-Star and his contract is very reasonable for his talent. Keep in mind that Dallas does not have a 1st round draft pick this summer (went to New Jersey in the Kidd trade); they do have their 2nd round pick. As for the season, I wasn't surprised by the relatively poor outcome. I was hoping I was wrong, but the Mavs really didn't seem like a good team all season long, except for the blowout win over Cleveland to open the season. They were inconsistent the whole season (both pre- and post-trade), showed lack of enthusiasm, and something simply seemed to be missing. Not once did Dallas ever show a killer instinct - getting a team down big and stepping on their throats. I can't tell you how many games I saw that the Mavs went up big early only to see the opponent storm back and make it a close game - or even a blowout the other way. I can't explain what it was, but despite almost the same roster, it just didn't feel like the same team that won 67 games in 06-07 (yeah, that team also lost in the 1st round, but they played great and blewout teams in the first 4 months of the season and then stumbled into the playoffs over the last month and a half and faced a team surging into the playoffs). As for what the team can do to turn things around, I don't know - I don't know if they can or if the coaching change and some player changes is what the team needs to get back to where they were a year and a half ago. Game Quotes [most of Paul's, West's, Johnson's, and Nowitzki's quotes transcribed by me.] Byron Scott: "That was probably the toughest game we played. Dallas had no quit in them, they kept coming and coming. But, we did what we had to do at home tonight, taking care of business." Scott on the 1st quarter: "I thought we lost a little momentum and relaxed a little bit. But in the 2nd quarter we got back to being aggressive. For most of the game we were aggressive, but sometimes we looked at the scoreboard and tried to play the clock, and that is something we can't do." Scott on Pargo: "I expected him to play well. I talked to him before the series and told him that Jason Terry was an important match up. I thought Jannero was a good match up because of his speed. I expected Jannero to come out and have good series, and he did." Scott: "We didn't talk about the physical part of the game, we just wanted to be aggressive on both ends. I told them Dallas was like a caged animal with their backs against the wall and would do whatever they could to win. We knew they were going to claw and scratch and do whatever they could. Our guys kept their composure and we just tried to play our style of basketball. At times I though we did not push them enough because we were trying to protect the lead and, being a young team, we need to understand that you need to build that lead up as much as possible." Chris Paul: "It feels great. It feels great to know that we are out of the 1st round. We beat a tough Dallas team. But we showed a lot of poise right here at the end. We let them back in the game, but luckily we pulled it out." Paul: "We're excited, we're happy for the team, the organization, for the city that we won the series. We weren't over-confident, but at the same time, we have a totally different mentality like we expect to win. We're not going to pop champagne bottles anything like that. You know, we're happy that Coach got Coach of the Year tonight. But at the same time, we expect a lot from ourselves and we're trying to set a new standard here with our organization. This isn't like a fairy tale for us. This is something that we're trying to keep going." Paul on the team playing well: "I think that Coach has a lot to do with it. You know, that Coach of the Year award that he got wasn't a fluke, it wasn't just because that we had a good season. It's the frame of mind he puts us in that gives us that ultimate confidence and he lets us play." David West: "All year we've tried to play with a certain level of consistency. First with our effort and then with our style of play. We felt like coming into the post-season, if we were able to stick to some of the things that gave us success during the regular year, we'd be fine. And the we had guys like Pargo. Pargo came in and played unbelievably for us, he made some shots, steadied the ship when they were trying to do some different things with CP [Paul]. So we knew it was going to be a total team effort; it's been that way all year. Yeah, there are going to be nights where some guys are off, but for the most part everybody on the team professed their will to come in when their number is called to step up." West: "Honestly, we came into this post-season expecting to win. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to win this series and felt all along that we had enough to do that. A lot of people may be surprised with how this thing turned out, but we're not too surprised on where we're sitting now. We're just happy that we're able to take care of business tonight. We look forward to moving on." West on the team playing well: "Coach has a lot to do with that, his mentality, the way he wants guys to play. The type of culture he wants around us. It's a trickle-down effect. We go out and we pride ourselves on competing." Jannero Pargo: "We wanted the opportunity to close this thing out. I just wanted to help in any way I could." Avery Johnson: "First of all, we want to congratulate Byron and his team and the whole Hornets organization, and the city of New Orleans. They put on a great show this series. Byron, congratulations to him again - I've already told him - NBA Coach of the Year, well deserved. And congratulations to a young Nate Archibald, all right. He is a special player, Chris Paul. He is relentless, he is strong, he is intelligent. He has a bright future. He and his coach have great chemistry and he seems like he is very coachable. He pretty much dominated us this series." Johnson: "More than anything, I just feel bad, our men, that the season is over for them. We've been just really inconsistent this year. We haven't been able in the 2nd half of the season, latter part of the season, been able to really keep up with the better teams. We paid the price for it." Johnson on New Orleans: "They're a a good team, they're a better team. And like I said, they took it to us. They came on our home floor and won Game 4. We just didn't have enough of our men playing well at the same time." Johnson: "Again, it's over now and they are moving on. They deserve to be moving on. They played their hearts out. Our men who we had in there in the 4th quarter, especially in the last 8 minutes of the game, they poured it out for us. You look at the guys who were out there, they poured it out for us and laid it out on the line. And maybe one rebound when we were down by 3, one long rebound and maybe we could have cut it, got that rebound and went down and got a 3-point basket to tie it up. But the ball just didn't bounce our way at the end." Johnson on New Orleans: "They haven't been through a lot of playoffs together. This is the start for them. I think they have just as good a chance as anybody. They were a #2 seed for a reason. When you win 56 or 57 games, what ever it was, in this Western Conference this year, that's kind of like winning 64. They did a terrific job. When you've got a point guard like this [Paul], the sky is the limit. When you've got really good point guard play, when you've got good center play with Chandler getting double-doubles, and West is another go-to guy, you can do some damage against anybody." Johnson on Howard's and Stackhouse's struggles: "Well, again, they just hit a bad stretch. And if you hit this stretch in December or January sometime, you'll just forget about it. But if you hit a bad stretch in the playoffs, you know, it's not good. And they just had a bad stretch. You know, the Hornets played some tough defense, but, you know, a lot of our men just missed their shots. You know, we were getting some wide open shots and shooting airballs, and not even hitting the rim. So, again, that's not really us." Dirk Nowitzki: "You know, I think it's a little too early for that question, what's going to happen this summer. Right now I think we're all disappointed. I think we're little better than what we showed in this series. And, who knows, I mean, the summer is going to be long. I'm sure there's going to be a some changes. But I think right now, we're so disappointed. You don't want to say stuff when you're emotional and disappointed. So, we'll let this one just sit for a while and then, obviously, once you don't win it all, once you don't win the championship, you've always got to look at what you have to do to make the franchise better, you know. Even in that year when we lost in the Finals, you got to look at your team. You didn't win it. What can you do to make the team better. I'm sure that at some point, we got to look at it this summer again. But it's not the time right now." Nowitzki: "Well, it's simple - we didn't play well enough to win this series. I don't want to take anything away from New Orleans. I think they're a phenomenal team. They showed it throughout the whole regular season, with the Coach of the Year, probably the MVP or top 3 MVPs of this league. They've got what you need to be a good team, you know, they got a great point guard. They got some dominate big men, they got a big rebounder in Chandler, they got the shooters outside with Pargo and Stojakovic and all the boys. So they really took it to us this series. We didn't play as well as we wanted to - that's the bottom line. Offensively, we we're great all series. I think what really lost us was Game 1 was the game to have for us. You know, they had some jitters early in the 1st half. I think we should have taken advantage of that more and come out, some how, with the win here in Game 1. They played great in Game 2 and then we just can't lose Game 4 at home, whatever happens. We had the lead after the 1st quarter, we're up 7. And you just can't lose at home in a playoff series. So to me that Game 4 was a killer. And tonight we left it all out there. We kept fighting, but just didn't make enough plays to win. But definitely Game 1 and Game 4 were right there for us to have and we just didn't come up with the things that we needed to." Nowitzki: "Obviously, very disappointing with what happened here in the playoffs with everything. Bad timing. In the playoffs, it's time to just concentrate about basketball and focus on it - not let any distractions come up. You know, I still try to keep them all together, make everyone play as hard as they can, but it wasn't good enough." Nowitzki: "Honestly, things didn't look great before the trade. It would have been a struggle to get into the playoffs either way, so we just went for it. Sometimes you have to take some risks in this business. We went for one of the best point guards ever to play this game. ... For some reason, we never got clicking the way we wanted to." Jason Kidd: "I'm disappointed we didn't win, but did I let them down? I gave them everything I had. Now you get some rest and try to get better over the summer and see what happens come October." Jerry Stackhouse: "You just have to take your hat off to New Orleans. They came in and did some things better than we did. It wasn't so much game planning or anything like that; it's just in between the lines they played better. They made more shots, they made more plays. We faltered. We tried to get this game, but we left it out there. Like I said, they made more plays than we did. You got to tip your hat to the New Orleans Hornets. It's the feel good story of the NBA." Stackhouse: "Consistency. How do you play a game like Game 3? Where did it come from. We were inconsistent with every facet of our game. It's an area we had trouble with all season long." Stackhouse on if this is the end of the current make-up of the team: "No matter what happens or what changes are made, it's been a great situation for me the last 4 years and a great situation for Avery the last 4 years and JET [Terry] coming out of Atlanta. For the last 4 years, it's been a great situation for everybody involved. If this is the end, you can't do anything but say we had our chance. We had our opportunities." Brandon Bass: "I wanted to win. We wanted to win. But I wish the Hornets the best. I've still got a lot of friends over there. They're pretty good. I thought we could win it every night, but every night they kind of got the edge on us. Chris Paul and all the supporting cast, they made plays." Devean George: "We couldn't get our game right at the right time. It's all about playing well at the right time. We just didn't do that." George: "It's hard to say about off-court distractions taking their toll. I've been on teams that have had way more drama than this and they were just fine. We just didn't hang on to our game plan long enough. We lost focus for too long." 2008 NBA Playoffs, First Round, Game 5 New Orleans Hornets 99, Dallas Mavericks 94 at New Orleans (April 29) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th - Final 2FG 3FG FG% FT% New Orleans 28 26 17 28 - 99 .469 .571 .487 .750 Dallas 22 17 24 31 - 94 .464 .346 .427 .789 Halftime: New Orleans 54-39 3rd Q: New Orleans 71-63 Technicals: New Orleans defensive 3 seconds 10:33 2nd, Chris Paul (NO) 4:37 2nd, Jerry Stackhouse 4:37 2nd, Jerry Stackhouse (ejected) 1:47 4th Refs: Danny Crawford, Scott Foster, Bill Kennedy Attendance: 18,260 (sellout) IL: New Orleans - Chris Andersen, Rasual Butler Dallas - J.J. Barea, Jamaal Magloire, Antoine Wright New Orleans Hornets REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF STL BLK Peja Stojakovic 40 2-12 2-4 5-5 11 0-6 0 1 1 1 0 David West 45 10-17 0-0 5-5 25 3-7 4 0 3 0 3 Tyson Chandler 41 5-9 0-0 0-0 10 7-14 1 2 4 0 3 Morris Peterson 17 2-6 2-3 0-0 6 0-0 0 0 3 0 0 Chris Paul 44 10-19 2-3 2-4 24 2-11 15 0 2 2 0 Julian Wright 13 2-4 0-1 2-2 6 0-1 1 1 3 3 0 Bonzi Wells 9 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 Jannero Pargo 28 7-9 2-3 1-4 17 0-3 1 1 1 0 0 Hilton Armstrong 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 48 38-78 8-14 15-20 99 12-42 23 8 18 6 6 Dallas Mavericks REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF STL BLK Josh Howard 30 6-14 0-2 0-0 12 2-9 1 3 2 0 0 Dirk Nowitzki 48 8-21 1-5 5-7 22 2-13 6 1 3 0 2 Erick Dampier 8 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0 2 0 0 Jason Terry 43 4-11 3-7 2-2 13 0-1 9 1 4 0 0 Jason Kidd 41 6-11 2-4 0-0 14 1-4 9 0 1 1 0 Brandon Bass 35 2-6 0-0 7-8 11 6-9 0 0 3 1 1 Jerry Stackhouse 27 5-12 0-4 1-1 11 3-4 0 3 2 0 0 Tyronn Lue 1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1-1 0 0 0 0 0 Devean George 8 4-5 3-4 0-1 11 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals 48 35-82 9-26 15-19 94 15-41 25 8 18 2 3 patricia -- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html