The Dallas Mavericks dropped the hammer on the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday night, winning 115-104, but you probably already knew that. If not, click here to read more about how the match was won.
Dallas is now three games over .500 and it feels great. Let’s just jump right into the specific numbers of what drove the Mavericks to victory.
51-30: Dallas wins the setback in a big way
In the rare case for the Mavericks this season, Dallas owned the boards, which enveloped the Spurs by a whopping + 21 margin. They nearly doubled San Antonio on the attacking glass, 13-7, and this extra look was great as the Mavericks were able to pull away from a fiery Spurs team lately. Porzingis grabbed four of his 14 high rebounds on the offensive point, and the appearance led the Mavericks directly to our next data point.
21-2: Second chance drives the Mavericks
The Mavericks are 27th in the league to score second chance, so look at Porzingis’ grip and offensive plate given one under the back plate, and then go up again and the score was a beautiful play that I would love to see more of. In a game decided by just 11 points, Dallas needed those points.
4223: Number of points scored by Luka Doncic in his career, past Kendrick Perkins
Did I choose to write this post just so we can use this social media graphic again? Perhaps.
with his 22-point performance tonight, luka doncic will now retire with more career points than kendrick perkins.
doncic played 11,633 minutes less and 616 fewer games than perkins did during his career. pic.twitter.com/m4DoloOVn0
– Mavs Moneyball (@mavsmoneyball) 11 March 2021
Should we feed the troll Kendrick Perkins? Of course not. But it’s not funny, as long as it’s funny, and given the insane criticism that Perkins lobbies on Doncic, it was too easy. Doncic is very good at basketball. He is very good at scoring basketball.