This team better figure out how to play against the Warriors. It doesn't matter what your record is if you can't beat a team when it matters most. The 2007 Mavs know that very well.
We'll get another look at them on Saturday, but unfortunately not under ideal conditions (i.e. 2nd night of a b2b and 4th game in 5 nights while the Warriors will be coming off of 2 days rest). Due to that, it could be another disappointing effort.
We had an opportunity to get back on track after dropping the New Year's Day game, but failed to capitalize. OKC lost and we could have added another full game advantage onto the Warriors. As a result, we're still behind OKC in the standings and have lost a full game to Warriors who are 1 game away from taking the series tie-breaker.
We've been streaky all season. Win 2, lose 2, win 6, lose 4, win 17, lose ???. We need to fix that.
The rebounding effort wasn't much of an effort at all. 53-38
Rebounding has been a weakness as well as defending the 3. Those happen to be strengths of the Warriors. This team needs to make a conscientious effort to improve, especially on getting defensive rebounds. We're 8th worst in allowing the opposing team to gain second chance opportunities by rebounds.
