Shawn Marion Dunks In The First Quarter As Injury Depleted Timberwolves No Match For Mavericks. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
The Dallas Mavericks (6-3) allowed the least points thus far this season (77) against the Minnesota Timeberwolves (1-9), Friday night (Nov.13). Dallas also forced a season low shooting percentage (32.6 percent) en route to a blowout victory.
After Minnesota kept it close for the majority of the first half, Dallas pulled away as Dirk Nowitzki scored 15 of his 20 points in the third quarter. This offensive outburst occured after former Mavericks' center Ryan Hollins decided he wanted to pick a fight with Nowitzki. After the altercation, Timberwolves point guard Jonny Flynn decided to join in and players had to be separated. Needless to say, this was not a very good idea for Flynn.
"Sometimes you've got to pick your battles. You don't want to do anything to spark a sleeping giant like that," Wolves rookie Flynn said. "You want to just let him sleep the whole game."
Nowtizki also grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Dallas. Shawn Marion second on the team in scoring with 15, and made his presence felt around the basket on the offensive end all game long.
Rodrigue Beaubois started his second career game and picked up where he left off, scoring the first 7 points of the game for Dallas. Roddy B finished with 9 points in only 15 minutes of action as it seems Rick Carlisle has a short leash on the rookie.
This was Minnesota's 9th straight loss after winning their first game of the season. This was a game, especially after the letdown against another injury depleted team in San Antonio, that the Mavericks had to win.
Dallas' next game is in Detroit against the Pistons at 5 p.m, Sunday (Nov. 15), locally on Fox Sports Southwest.
(Portions of this article were taken from The Associated Press)
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