As of Wednesday, the Mavericks were No. 1 in the NBA in four statistical categories.
Two of them won’t surprise you: three-pointers made and attempted. They heave from the arc like nobody else.
But there is another set of metrics that might be less expected.
Mavericks’ opponents shoot and make fewer free throws than anybody else in the NBA.
As we reach the one-tenth point of the season, eight games is not exactly a reliable sample size. But the season is to the point that these numbers no longer can be considered fluky.