The Dallas Mavericks (41-29) began this eight-game stint as the West’s eighth-place team on the heels of five losses in seven games. They finished Thursday’s...
The Mavericks have won seven of their last eight games as they prepare to embark on an 11-day, five-game road trip.
, and a team’s postseason berth isn’t exactly determined by their strength of schedule or quality of wins. Dallas needed to build a barrier between itself and those on the fringes of the play-in tournament like the 9th-place Los Angeles Lakers , the 10th-place Warriors and the 11th-place Houston Rockets and it did so successfully.
Here’s what worked so well for the Mavericks in their last eight games, and how those same factors could help them in these next five games and beyond.Dallas is one of the league’s most aggressive teams from behind the arc. The Mavericks average the second-most 3-point attempts per game and third-most 3-point makes per game in the NBA this season, but just 28.6% of their points in the last eight games have come via 3-pointers these last eight games, the 28th-lowest in basketball.
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