There was a time – many of them, really – when no one wanted forward Dorian Finney-Smith out on the perimeter
“I can remember early in my career (Dallas Mavericks coach Rick) Carlisle telling me don’t shoot any threes unless it’s late in the shot clock,” Finney-Smith said. “Now they’re telling me to shoot it as soon as I got a good look.
“It’s just a test to the work I put in and a test to the work everybody on the team seen me put in.”
That work has definitely paid high dividends for Finney-Smith, who made 8-of-12 baskets from three-point range during Sunday’s 111-101 win over the Phoenix Suns at American Airlines Center in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals.