Game 58: Dallas Mavericks (33-24) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (37-19)

[SleepingHero]

Yeah, totally not a loss to freak out about. Like RTG said, they played Cleveland evenly (I think they outplayed Cleveland) on the road.

Yeah I'm not going to overreact to this loss, but it stings extra bad since it was right there and the standings are so tight.

I hope we don't look back in 2 months and wonder if this team was one 60 foot prayer away from the 6th seed and play in. 

Only critiques I have (and honestly couldn't muster the energy for after seeing that shot) was how stagnant the offense was in the first half. Basically 1 PnR into a dribble fest for 20 seconds and then a prayer. 2nd half was a little better but not by much. Kidd failed there.

The substitution patterns I thought were silly. Taking Green out in the 4th instead of Timmy was an insane choice to me.