High percentage Fortunately, the Washington Wizards and Toronto Raptors were on the schedule.
The Wiz gave the Mavs all they could handle Saturday night, 105-99. The Mavs were up double-digits at halftime before the Wiz went on a run in the third making it close throughout.
Tyson Chandler wound up with a season-high 23 points as he just dunked the shit out of Washington. Chandler's line was brilliant. He somehow played 31 minutes and grabbed 13 rebounds, yet, didn't record a turnover or personal foul.
Of the starters against Washington, Dirk Nowitzki and Chandler scored 44 points. The other three (Jason Kidd, Roddy Beaubois, Peja Stojakovic) scored 10 on 4-14 shooting (to Kidd's credit, he shot once and made it ... he wound up with 14 assists).
Naturally, the Mavs rebounded against Toronto Sunday night in a blowout, 114-96. Outside of Dirk's 34 minutes, no one played more than 30. Even Ian Mahinmi logged 22 minutes.
Again, the starting line-up did very little. Outside of Dirk, they scored 19 points. Still, the shot just 24 times, so no biggie.
The Mavs moved to a salty 21-8 on the road, just a half game from matching their 22-8 record at the American Airlines Center. Washington and Toronto are not good litmus tests, but wins on the road -- especially back to back -- matter. It's not the Mavericks' fault they were against tomato cans.
Notes:
1. Chandler's shooting 65 percent from the field. A career high. His previous is 62 percent.
2. The Mavericks' point totals for February: 113, 101, 101, 99, 102, 121, 106, 116, 112, 118, 105 and 114. That's an average of 109 per contest.
3. Ironically, their lowest point total for the month -- 99 -- came against the worst team in the league (Cleveland) at home in a win. The highest point total came in a loss at Denver on the rear end of a back to back.
4. The Mavs are middle of the road in the NBA with 99.6 points per game. However, they have the third best field-goal percentage in the league at 47.4 percent. Behind Miami and Boston.
5. Roddy Beaubois in six games: 17-42 FG -- 5-17 3PT.
6. I give Jason Terry shit for being a one-dimensional player. However, for February, that one dimension's been awesome. Averaging 17 points a game. Five games of 20+ points. Only one with less than 10.
