The Fast Break: Mavs at Kings

Final: Mavs 103, Kings 97Behind the Box Score

Harrison Barnes tied both his season-high and career-high for assists, with six.

Notebook

Dennis Smith Jr. made a couple real clever, veteran-type plays tonight. The first came very early in the first quarter off an inbound play. Smith lulled De’Aaron Fox to sleep before making a slow lob pass to Harrison Barnes in the post, and then he zoomed around the corner, took the hand-off, and threw down a dunk. If Smith would have been over-anxious before the pass, he might have tipped his hand. Instead, he quite literally went from zero to 100, forcing Fox to react instead of anticipate. It was all the difference between a contested layup and an open dunk.

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