only 4 games on tonight:

Dallas at Atlanta

Washington at the Clippers

Denver at Phoenix

Sacramento at Utah

Here's the angle to the Mavs-Hawks game (besides the obvious):

Should we defeat the Mavs, we'd be even in the first tiebreaker. The 2nd tiebreaker is record vs teams in the other conference.

Detroit is 22-5 against the west, Dallas is 22-4 against the east.

Dallas has 4 games left vs the east, all on their current road trip:

3/25 at Atlanta
3/28 at Detroit
3/29 at Cleveland
3/31 at Orlando

Detroit has 3 home games left vs the west:

3/28 vs Dallas
4/2 vs Phoenix
4/4 vs NOK

Obviously, if Detroit loses to Dallas tuesday this is all moot, but if the Mavs lose one other game on this trip, we'll be within reach of the tiebreaker over them, and possibly an extra game to rest the starters at the end of the season.

The next tiebreaker is divisional record (which we currently have an edge in but it would drag things out longer)

Thanks for pointing that out, Kstat. I hope the team knows that, too. They should be fighting for every game possible at this point.

Thanks for pointing that out, Kstat. I hope the team knows that, too. They should be fighting for every game possible at this point.


It's all moot since Dallas won't be getting by San Antonio anyways....

Thanks for pointing that out, Kstat. I hope the team knows that, too. They should be fighting for every game possible at this point.


It's all moot since Dallas won't be getting by San Antonio anyways....

That may be true, but it would do us a lot of good to mathmatically clinch the NBA's best record 1 game earlier.

Odds are we'll we'll be holding off the Spurs longer than the Mavs anyway, but it would be much easier on us to own tiebreakers over each of them.

good stuff, Kstat.

Call me Crazy I think the style the hawks play could really challenge the Mavs.

Amare watch: 16min, 6pts, 5reb, 2ast, 1blk

phoenix beats nuggets 107-96

and boris diaw is sick....13pts 13asts 8reb

looking at the Mavs, Hawks box score, it looks like every quarter was pretty close but the first....where ATL got outscored by 14.

Mavs win 98-83

Diaw for Johnson would be a fair enough trade, and yet Atlanta owes PHX a couple of first round picks yet...