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It's Spurs all the way in final exhibition

Mavs didn't have old familiar spark in San Antonio's 100-79 win


By EDDIE SEFKO / The Dallas Morning News

SAN ANTONIO – The energy didn't quite crackle like it did the last time the Mavericks visited the AT&T Center.

But after the Mavericks had all sorts of problems in a 100-79 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in the preseason finale, there won't be any shortage of energy in the five days of practice leading up to the regular-season opener.

Avery Johnson will have all sorts of trouble areas to zero in on.

"I bet in the back of his mind, he wanted this to happen because now everybody has to focus in and know that there's work we have to do before next Thursday," Jerry Stackhouse said. "To beat teams like the one we're opening up with, we got some work to do.

"[But] you don't want to show your hand too much. Most of our stuff that we use, we aren't using now. But we'll have it by next week."

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xray

You can make the case that its hard to tell a team to hold back, and not have them go into shutdown mode.

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StackAttack

Should I be worried? Because after watching our only preseason game against actual competition, I seriously am.

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"You can't do nothing to D-Wade," Rasheed Wallace said. "If you say 'boogety-boogety booh' to him, that's a foul."

edwardcyh

I am horribly worried about Cro....

I think KVH could have played better, and that's sad.

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BURP...

xray

I hope we're right in thinking it may take a little time to adjust timing, familiarly, who likes what, etc.
If not, do we have another '04?

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StackAttack

So far:

KVH > Cro
Griff > Buck
Quis > George

The only people who have really impressed me are all three centers and Mo. George was impressive during his first couple of outings but since then not so much so.

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"You can't do nothing to D-Wade," Rasheed Wallace said. "If you say 'boogety-boogety booh' to him, that's a foul."