By Katrina King
The Dallas Mavericks must get a win in the Alamo City tonight in game 6. It's imperative...they must come out strong on defense and offense. A good friend of mine and former coach, Bob Ortegal always say you have to run and shoot the ball and defend and rebound to win ballgames.
The Mavs need to do just that to win game 6 and bring the game back to Dallas on Saturday night.. If not, they go home.
Mavericks guard Caron Butler had this to say; "We came out and did a great job on both ends of the floor. We protected the paint, got stops and get out to our fast breaks."
In game 5 against the Spurs, Butler scored a season high 35 points, he took charge of the game and carried the team on his back. He spoke on his offensive game, " I was just aggressive at all times; I wasn't second guessing myself so if the shot was there I was taking it. Jason Kidd and all of my teammates did a great job of finding me in rhythm, our backs are against the wall and we don't want to go home yet".
Thanks God, Coach C started Brendan Haywood instead of Erick Dampier. The line up produce a win, although Coach Carlise played it down a little bit. " We've had leads in previous games, so it is not like the lineups we used in previous games were necessarily bad or anything like that. It just seemed like the right time to make this move. It is a little bit different kind of player. Coach Carlise goes on to say, " Damp has been giving us great defense and rebounding and stuff. Brendan (Haywood) is just a little bit different type of player and I thought he responded well. When I talk to Damp about the decision, he was great. He is going to be ready. I thought long and hard about it. Damp has been such an important part here and we are going to continue to need him. He just said hey I'm ready. So it was great. I thought Haywood responded well to the opportunity. Hey, going back down there, the environment is going to be a lot different. We have our work cut out for us".
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