As good as the Mavericks have been – and they’ve exceeded any and all expectations – they still woke up Wednesday with eight teams in the NBA owning better records than theirs.
But when you factor in that the Mavericks were 6-5 in mid-November, the fact that they are only a game behind the teams with the third-best record in the league is impressive.
Especially so, Rick Carlisle said, because the Mavericks are getting a taste of how the best teams in the league live on a daily basis.
“We’ve been getting a lot of people’s best game – a lot,” Carlisle said before the Mavericks played Minnesota Wednesday.