By Katrina KingImages by Channing Jemerson/TSB Sports
The Mavericks broke their six game losing streak beating the Los Angeles Lakers 109-100. with the win, Dallas Dallas improved to 27-14 after 41 games. Kidd scored a season high 21 points and 10 assists in 35 minutes. Mavericks forward Sasha Pavlovic, who was signed to a 10-day contract started for the Mavericks against the Lakers. He scored 11 points during his time in the game. Pavlovic isn't a bad player, he has potential to be a good scorer. He received decent minutes in the absence of Caron Butler
Sasha broke his nose in the second quarter quarter of the game against Dettroit ( 1/17) and returned for the second half. To help the Mavs beat the Lakers Jason Terry scored 22 points coming off the bench and contributed 7 assists.
The Matrix, Shawn Marion also came off the bench to record a team-high-tying 22 points. Nowitzki played in his third game since his injury suffering from a sprained right knee. He scored 14 points and pulled down 8 boards. Dirk played moderate careful not to reinjured his knee.
Let us not forget Kobe Bryant who entered Wednesday's game averaging 25.2 points per game tallied a double-double for the Lakers with 21 points and 10 assists. Still wasn't enough to put the Mavs away.
Coach Phil Jackson had this to say:" "We were very disappointed with the way we played. We thought we should have been up by 16 points in the first half. We let them stay in the ballgame and then they had that third quarter that was really a great finish to it. And they got us on our heels"
The question was asked to coach Jackson if he thought the loss was due to a lack of defense: "Yeah, I'd say a lack of defense. I think they had so many open shots. They just started making them and then the three point shooting won the game. I think we scored the same number of field goals, but they won it on the three point shooting".
