Almost lost in the celebration surrounding J.J. Barea being named Western Conference Player of the Week is just how excellent Wesley Matthews has played on both sides of the ball in recent weeks. The wing is averaging 17.6 points per game in his last eight contests, connecting on 49.3 percent of his three-point attempts during […]
Coming into the season, a tight race for the playoffs was all but guaranteed. That’s been the name of the game out West this entire millennium. Nothing is ever set in stone, and nothing is decided early. What you probably didn’t expect — and I’m not sure who else could have — is the Mavs […]
Wesley Matthews is the type of player who always leaves it all out on the floor, but while he’s putting his body on the floor, he typically hasn’t been a guy who puts the ball on the floor too much. That is, until last night. Matthews drives the lane just 2.6 times per game this […]
It was bound to happen eventually, and last night it did. Mavs coach Rick Carlisle changed up the starting lineup, replacing Zaza Pachulia with Raymond Felton. Dirk Nowitzki started at center with Chandler Parsons at power forward as the Mavs tested a small-ball group against the hottest team in the NBA. Before last night, the […]
Since the All-Star break, no team has scored more efficiently than the Mavericks. Dallas has scored 116.0 points per 100 possessions in five games since the break, which leads the NBA. To give you an idea of just how dominant that is, Golden State’s 112.6 rating leads the league for the entire season. Now, as […]
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but fortunately shooting isn’t as complicated as city planning. For Wesley Matthews, maybe one day is all it takes to bust out of a slump. Matthews scored 21 points on Sunday night, his highest single-game total since Jan. 5. The performance ended a stretch in which he reached double-digits […]
On Friday Andrew Wiggins scored 35 points on the Cleveland Cavaliers. On Sunday he ran into Wesley Matthews. Last year’s No. 1 pick and Rookie of the Year has been excellent this season, but Matthews wasn’t about to allow him to score 30 for the second game in a row. Instead, Matthews limited Wiggins to […]
Hard things are hard. That’s the new mantra of choice for Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle, who picked up the saying on the Mavs’ last road trip after seeing it inscribed on a plaque which sits in the Oval Office. While there are admittedly very few similarities between coaching a basketball team and heading up […]
Wesley Matthews put on a shooting performance for the ages last night in Washington, knocking down 10 three-pointers and giving the Mavericks a sorely needed scoring boost en route to a 116-104 road win. He matched his personal career-high scoring mark with 36 points and tied the Mavs’ franchise record for made treys in a […]
Saturday night at American Airlines Center, the Mavs found themselves down four points at halftime, 52-48, against a Denver Nuggets team in the midst of a five-game losing streak. Denver had played the Spurs in San Antonio the night before, yet Dallas found itself getting outworked and outplayed by the tired team. But something changed […]