Game 4: San Antonio at Dallas (May 25) After a 30 minute delay due to a fire alarm that caused the AAC to be evacuated (small kitchen fire that was quickly extinguished), the game got underway with Dallas missing 3 big men as Dirk Nowitzki, Shawn Bradley, and Evan Eschmeyer did not play due to knee injuries. With missing those 3 big men and only having one player available over 6-8, Dallas played a shooting game, as you would expect. Gregg Popovich was very unhappy when Dallas nailed 2 3-pointers to open the game to go up 6-1 a minute in and Popovich called a quick timeout and then 2 minutes later yanked 3 of his starters - Tony Parker, Stephen Jackson, and David Robinson. Dallas' only big man, Raef LaFrentz picked up his 2nd foul 20 seconds after getting his 1st and sat for the rest of the quarter with 8:50 left [the 2nd was legit, the 1st was completely bogus]. The Spurs pulled within a point and Dallas then went on a 9-1 run, capped by a 3-pointer by Michael Finley, to go up 15-6 with 6:15 left. Dallas' lead remained in single-digits the rest of the quarter. San Antonio went on an 8-2 run to pull within 21-22 with 15 seconds left. A jumper at the buzzer by Finley gave Dallas a 24-21 lead after 1. Dallas shot 10-21 FG including 4-9 3-pointers in the quarter while San Antonio shot a mere 5-14 FG. Dallas also out-rebounded San Antonio 12-8. So with those numbers, how come it was just a 3 point game? The Spurs stayed in the game thanks to the free throw line as they shot 10-12 FT while Dallas didn't get to the line once [bites tongue really hard]. Dallas led 31-26 with 10:30 to go and Manu Ginobili scored the next 5 points and Parker hit a technical free throw [Raja Bell was called for swinging the elbow - he could have been ejected for it, but ref elected to just give him a warning] to give San Antonio a 32-31 lead with 9 minutes left. The teams traded leads over the next 7 minutes as the game stayed close. Dallas scored the last 4 points of the quarter and led 52-47 at the half. Ginobili had 12 points in the quarter. For the half, Dallas shot 47.6% (20-42) FG including 9-20 3-pointers and San Antonio shot 39.4% (13-33) FG including 3-11 3-pointers. Dallas shot 3-5 FT and San Antonio shot 18-20 FT. Despite the high number of 3-point attempts, Dallas was also taking it inside as they had 14 points in the paint (San Antonio had 16). The teams were even on the boards at 21 a piece. For the half, Finley had 15 points, Steve Nash had 14 points, Nick Van Exel had 13 points, Ginobili had 17 points, Parker had 11 points, and Tim Duncan had just 8 points, but did have 9 rebounds. Dallas scored 6 straight points to go up 64-55 with 7:20 remaining and then fell to pieces. In a 17 point swing, San Antonio went on a 20-3 run to go up 75-67 with 45 seconds left as Dallas committed 4 turnovers and shot 1-10 FG. Finley hit a 3-pointer with 20 seconds left to end Dallas' 6 minute shooting drought, but Ginobili had an impressive, flying putback at the buzzer. San Antonio led 77-70 after 3. Parker had 11 points and Duncan had 8 points and 9 rebounds in the 3rd quarter. San Antonio shot 14-25 FG and Dallas shot 7-20 FG during the 3rd and the Spurs out-rebounded Dallas 15-8. Jackson scored the first 2 buckets of the 4th quarter to give San Antonio their largest lead at 81-70 with 11 minutes to go. Dallas scored the next 9 points, capped by a 3-pointer by Nash, to pull within 80-82 with 8:30 left. But Bruce Bowen answered with a 3-pointer and 2 more buckets by San Antonio gave them a 9 point lead with 7:15 to go. After a minor scuffle and a double technical between LaFrentz and Malik Rose [and Rose should have been tossed for making contact with the ref], LaFrentz hit a 3-pointer to again pulled Dallas within 2 points at 89-91 with 3:25 left. Rose drove baseline for the slam dunk as the shot clock was winding down with 2:55 to go. LaFrentz missed and then fouled Duncan inside for his 6th foul. Duncan hit 1 of 2 free throws, Dallas turned the ball over, and Rose got a layup to give San Antonio a 96-89 lead with 1:40 remaining. Dallas missed on 2 attempts, Parker got called for an offensive foul, and Dallas missed with a minute left and time was running out. Walt Williams blocked a shot attempt by Parker and Dallas got the quick layup to pull within 5 points at 96-91 with 38 seconds left and the team started intentionally fouling. But San Antonio shot 6-6 FT down the stretch to preserve the win. San Antonio won 102-95. Dallas did come out with a fire in their belly in playing without their best player, but that 3rd quarter slump just killed them and they didn't have enough left in the tank down the stretch to recover from the hole they found themselves in. Plus San Antonio is a great team and didn't mess up down the stretch. [It's funny: in the 1st 2 games, San Antonio was the better 1st half team and Dallas was the better 2nd half team, and it reverse that in the last 2 games.] After shooting 47.5% FG including 9-20 3-pointers in the 1st half, Dallas shot just 39.5% FG including 3-11 3-pointers in the 2nd half. San Antonio shot 39.4% FG including 3-11 3-pointers in the 1st half and shot 51.2% FG including 3-12 3-pointers in the 2nd half. The Spurs also out-rebounded Dallas 28-19 in the 2nd half. For the game, San Antonio shot 46.1% (35-76) FG including 6-23 3-pointers and Dallas shot 43.5% (37-85) FG including 12-31 3-pointers. San Antonio shot 26-31 FT and Dallas shot 9-13 FT. San Antonio out-rebounded Dallas 49-40, but both teams had 14 offensive rebounds. San Antonio has a commanding 3-1 lead in the series. Dallas must win every game left in this series or else go home for the summer. Game 5 is tonight at 8:00 in San Antonio. Dirk Nowitzki is listed as doubtful for the game and highly likely won't play and Shawn Bradley and Evan Eschmeyer are definitely out. Though not the offensive force he has been as Dallas constantly double-teamed him, Tim Duncan had a stellar game with consecutive 20-20 performances. He had 21 points, 20 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4 blocks. The double-team and Duncan's passing skills allowed the Spurs shooters to get going. Tony Parker was the high man with 25 points and 5 assists. Stephen Jackson had 17 points including 5-5 2-pointers, but just 1-7 3-pointers. 8 of his points came in the 4th quarter. Emanuel Ginobili finally reappeared and had a career high 21 points. He also had 6 rebounds including 5 offensive. Those were the 4 Spurs in double-digits. Bruce Bowen didn't find his shooting touch as he had 4 points on 1-8 FG, 1-5 3-pointers, and 1-2 FT [no hack-a-Bowen], but he did have 5 rebounds and 4 steals in his 29 minutes. David Robinson didn't do much with 2 points on 1-2 FG and 4 rebounds in 19 minutes. Malik Rose came off the bench to contribute 8 points and 8 rebounds. All 4 of his offensive rebounds came in the 4th quarter. I still say he should have been tossed for making contact with the ref as he slapped away the ref's hands as the ref was pushing him away from Raef LaFrentz after the 2 got in each others' face. Heck, Eduardo Najera got tossed and a 1 game suspension for accidental contact with a ref earlier in the season. Speedy Claxton had 2 points in 4 minutes and Steve Kerr had 2 points in 1 minute to round out the Spurs who played. The available big 3 stepped up for Dallas, but they didn't get much help from the 5 others who played. Michael Finley had 25 points including 4-9 3-pointers and 6 rebounds in playing all but 30 seconds [and those 30 seconds baffled me]. He had 8 points in the 4th quarter. Steve Nash had 25 points including 5-7 3-pointers, but just 2 assists in 41 minutes. 9 of his points came in the 4th quarter. Nick Van Exel had 22 points and 8 rebounds including 4 offensive in 42 minutes. No other Mav had more than 7 points. Raef LaFrentz had 7 points, 6 rebounds, and 4 blocks in 31 foul plagued minutes. Walt Williams got the starting nod and had 7 points including 2-9 FG and 1-7 3-pointers, 8 rebounds, and 3 blocks in 31 minutes. Eduardo Najera has yet to have a strong outing and finished with 4 points and 3 rebounds in 25 minutes. Raja Bell had 5 points and 5 rebounds in 13 minutes and Adrian Griffin shot 0-2 F and had 2 rebounds and 2 assists in 10 minutes. The Mavs are opening the AAC up for tonight's Dallas-San Antonio game. The game will be broadcast on the jumbotron. Admission is free and parking is free in lot F. The doors will open at 7 pm (the game starts at 8). The first 2,500 fans will receive a free copy of the 02-03 Dallas Mavericks Yearbook. Quotes Gregg Popovich: "I thought Dallas was really great tonight under really difficult circumstances for them, obviously, and they didn't give in a bit. They showed the reasons why they won 60 games and why they're a heck of an opponent. We had to do everything we could to just stay in the basketball game and then we got to a period where we finally made some stops. In that 4th quarter, we made a series of stops that got the game for us. Other than that period where we did pretty well defensively, I thought Dallas was fantastic and did everything they could do to win the basketball game. We're really fortunate to get this one." Popovich on Dallas: "It's who those guys are. You have to look at each one of them individually. They all have big time heart, big time character. They're not going to give into anything and they're going to pick it up when they need to. That's totally expected. I would of been shocked if it was anything but that. That's what they're made of." Popovich on the early benchings: "I just didn't feel that we came out and played the style of basketball that we had talked about for the 2 days and I just wanted to get a couple of messages out quickly." Popovich: "As the game went on, I thought that Jack, Manu, and Tony all improved and got their wits about them, played more in the system and did the things we do as a team. And that worked well for us." Popovich on Rose: "I thought Malik did a great job on the board for us. He was huge in working that area. You know, he didn't score a lot tonight, but he scored on the board down the stretch, he got some rebounds down the stretch at the offensive end, made a big block at the defensive end, went to the line a little bit. So his ability to just work and work and work until something good happens was important to us." Popovich on Dallas: "No, I don't think we were caught off guard with anything. As I said, if they hadn't come out the way that they did, I would've been surprised." Popovich on Dallas' defense on Duncan: "They've done a little bit of everything and that's how they play. When they're in that mode, that defense, that's what they're going to do, whether it's Timmy or somebody else. But Timmy's seen it all and we're just very fortunate that he makes great decisions as a quarterback down there and understands the variety of ways people play him. Our perimeter depends on his decisions first and then they have to take over when he kicks it." Popovich on Jackson: "I didn't really want to play him as much as I did tonight. But I thought as the game progressed, he was having a pretty good game and we just went with it. So we felt he's in pretty good shape. He's been laying in bed. He hasn't been working or on the court or anything. So he got his energy back and we really needed it, obviously." Popovich on holding the 4th quarter lead: "That's been our way most of the year and we're getting better at understanding what makes leads dissipate. Tonight when it did go down 5 points or so, 6 points, from the 11, we turned it over a couple of times, a couple of bad possessions, and then we got back, handled the ball well, not turning it over, hitting some free throws, And they're getting a little more experienced that way. So it gives them a little bit of confidence, I think." Popovich on Rose: "Malik was really important to us tonight, especially down the stretch in going to the offensive boards, scoring a little bit, but getting those possessions back for us so we can go at it again. And at the defensive end, he got a big block. He made a couple of free throws. And really played a good team game for us down the stretch." Tim Duncan: "We knew they were going to change the game with their lineup and with their motion and it's honestly like playing a whole different team. Whole different game plan, they came out and really jumped on us, kind of had a feeling they were going to do that early until we got used to what they were doing. I thought the guys did a great job of kind of keeping our confidence throughout, to continue to play, making stops, and just playing all the way through." Duncan on Nowitzki being out: "We planned for him to be out there. That was our game plan. If he wasn't there then they're a different team. We were ready for that. As I said, we kind of got set back in the 1st quarter. They shot the ball really well, they spread the floor, guys got to the basket. But we got used to it pretty quick. It was a hard fought game. We knew it would be. They're not going to lay down for us. I thought it was a great game all around by a bunch of different guys." Duncan on the 3rd quarter run: "We made some stops in a row. Those guys, as I said, they shot the ball very well in that 1st half. And all of the sudden, we kind of got used to what they were doing. We contested shots, they missed some shots, we got to push it right back at them. That was the difference. A couple of stops in a row and we were off running." Duncan on Dallas' fatigue: "Yeah, honest. We said that from the 1st quarter to continue to play because they're going to have to scramble, they're going to have to throw different defenses at us and it's going to wear them out and their shots are going to start getting short. And I thought they did. And I thought their legs kind of went on them a little bit. Defensively, we turned up the intensity towards the end there. Contested a bunch of shots. Stephen blocked a shot down the stretch there, a couple. Things kind of happened. So we just kept playing, we kept playing all the way through, which was kind of great for us." Duncan on Dallas getting close in the 4th: "It's experience. We haven't been great in that situation throughout the playoffs, but I think we're getting better and better. We have a very young team and we haven't been together for that long, for that many years, and we don't know exactly what we're going to do coming down the stretch there. They go to zone a little bit. They double-team a little bit. We got to find a way to be effective against that. And I thought we've been doing a better and better job in the past few games of finding ways to go to, making plays down the stretch, making shots, and putting the pressure right back on them." Duncan on winning 2 in Dallas: "We wanted to take it 1 game at a time coming in here. We got that 1st one. It really put the pressure on them. We came in here and got down a little bit, but just kind of stayed with it. This was our plan to come in here and get 2. We really felt like we gave that 1st one away. And the situation with Dirk going down, we didn't want to kind of let them back in, knowing they're coming in here with a lot o emotion, knowing that they're coming in with a lot of energy in this building. We want to really jump on them and really take it to 3-1 and kind of put them on their backs." Duncan on the NBA finals: "It feels like it's miles away still. We're going play like that, we're going to play like it's miles away. We're going to get this one and play it the whole way though and hopefully end this series with the next one." David Robinson on Rose: "For the most of the game, he didn't really get his rhythm going. Then, in that last quarter, he was great. He did a lot of great things for us. He hit the boards, got great offensive rebounds, hit some big shots down there." Tony Parker on being pulled early: "You know Pop, you know, he's always tough with me. And he's always going to do some stuff kind of weird. But, you know, I'm strong mentally and he's always scream at me, but I'm always going to come back, you know, and play hard, you know, and that's what he want." Parker on being pulled: "I was mad. I was mad. But I said I can't let that, you know, get me in the head, you know. I knew that he was going to come to me, you know, 3 minutes after, you know, and I want to play hard, you know, I want to win, you know. Our ultimate goal is to go to the championship so I can't let that affect me." Parker on the 3rd quarter: "Nothing special, you know. They double Timmy, you know. Timmy is dominate, you know, inside, you know. I got a lot of wide open shots, you know, and I feel I can penetrate against Nash and Van Exel. And my shot was on tonight, so it was pretty good." Parker: "That's our bench. Our bench is very good. I think that's what makes a championship team. Our bench is very good." Parker: "New Jersey finished Detroit and is getting some rest, so we need some rest, too. We've got some old guys on this team." Malik Rose: "We had a little deeper rotation and wore them down. They played hard and did all they could. They've got heart, but in the end we wore them down." Bruce Bowen on Parker: "Tony is doing what Tony does. Now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, what a great job he's doing.' But in the first month and a half of the season, they weren't saying these things." Bowen: "We knew they were going to use the circumstances to give them energy, and they made a valiant effort tonight - which is what we expected." Bowen: "In all things, you have to weather the storm. That's playing on the road or playing at home, because teams in this league are going to make a run." Emanuel Ginobili: "I came out knowing I had to do more. I had to take a couple more shots and get to the basket. When I made my first couple of shots, my confidence grew." Don Nelson: "I thought we played a really good game and I'm really proud of my team. We had a tough 3rd quarter. We couldn't seem to get on track. But for the most part, I was very please with our performance. I think the rebounding again was our nemesis and their ability to get to the free throw line and our ability never to get there, probably the 2 biggest items. Other than that, you know, we played a whale of a game and moved the ball and did what we do best. And I thought we had a shot at it all the way to the end, really. I kept thinking that we were going to win this game some how and get Dirk back and then get back in this thing. But evidently we got their attention when we played that 1st game in San Antonio and they've been a much tougher opponent ever since then. And they're just a fabulous basketball team anyway. So my hat goes off to them. Tim Duncan again, you know, did the right thing with his ball movement, passing, rebounding, and scoring. 20-20. And then Ginobili had a game. I thought we did a fairly decent job the last game on him and he got away from us this time. They have so many people, it's hard to curtail all of them. We do a good job on Parker tonight and Ginobili gets away from us a little bit. But that's the making of a good team. And that's the way it goes." Nelson: "The Spurs can play any style that you want to play. You want to run, they can run. You want to score 115 points, they can score 115 right with you. You want to go half court, they're right there. You want to zone them, they got that coverted. They're just very well coach. Their players are very disciplined and they know where their bread is buttered. They go through Duncan on the low post. They go inside-out. They're a fantastic team. We would hope that we'd be as good some day as we continue to grow as a team." Nelson: "I thought we handled the fatigue pretty well. I think there were some times where we were tired. Our little guys really had to do a lot of running around. We were double-teaming Duncan, as you noticed I hope, on all his catches and to do that your small players really have to work and they have to double-team and rotate and continue to move and then we put the ball in their hands. I think they'll sleep really well tonight, but I don't think that fatigue was a factor that it had a bearing on the game. I thought our guys are in superb condition and they'll be a little sore because I over-played, you know, my new big 3 a little bit, but that's the way it goes." Nelson on defending Duncan: "Well if 20 points is holding somebody down, then that's not bad. That's probably a little below his average. But he's a willing candidate to do what ever it takes to hurt you. If it's a pass, he'll do that. He'll move the ball. He has great understanding of all those kind of things. I think over the years from his rookie year to now, Pop has just done a marvelous job of teaching him what it takes to win and to do all the little things. You know, he does all the little - of course I don't want to give Pop all the credit, he did all the little things in college. He's really a superb draft choice as far as being a fundamental - didn't they used to call him Fundy or something, maybe that was somebody else - but fundamentally sound - I guess that was Buechler. But he was as fundamentally sound as anybody I'd ever seen." Nelson on defending Duncan: "I thought we did a marvelous job of staying within our game plan and doing what ever we needed to do to try to win the game and to stay in the game. Yeah, I was very happy with the way we played." Nelson on San Antonio moving Duncan outside more in the 3rd: "Yeah, their in-and-out pass would be to reestablish a better position low. Their in-and-out pass, he actually moved out a little bit to get a little what we call a Michael Jordan angle on the postups, which really stretches your double-teams out. It's a little farther from the paint so everything, his passing lanes are easier and the double-teams are harder, the rotations have to go farther. They do all those kind of things that really tax your squad. And if there is fatigue, it's not during the game, it's probably now because our little guys really had to run a lot tonight." Nelson on needing to win 3 straight: "What are the odds on anything in life? You know, you bet on a long shot, every once in a while it comes in. You just never know, do you. That's why we play these games and that's why we're going to show up in San Antonio. We'll be down there on the Riverwalk tomorrow night, hopefully having a little margarita and maybe some Mexican food and then we're going to go play the game day after. Thanks for asking." Nelson on starting Van Exel: "Well I know he likes coming off the bench and I actually asked, I had Avery talk to him before and see if he felt all right about that. He's a little superstitious this year, when I asked him a couple of other times when I was going to start him and he said he'd really rather come off the bench. But I really needed him to play what I thought would be a 48 minute game, I got him a couple of minutes rest, but not too many. ... He played 42 minutes out of 48 tonight." Nelson on not playing Nowitzki: "It's pretty silly. He's a young guy that when we drafted him and when he came to the USA, his father told me that I'm his father in America and he's his father in Germany. And as his father in America, he will not play tonight." Nelson on not playing Nowitzki: "He wants to play, obviously. He's a competitor. He needs years and years of experience and a 63 year-old man to help him along on his decisions." Dirk Nowitzki: "Well, it's of course pretty frustrating. It's the first time that we went to the Western Conference finals and it was a big game. If we would have won, it would have been 2-2 and the whole thing is wide open. I was pretty frustrated, but I still thought it was a great effort. I mean we were right there. A couple mental mistakes, couldn't get a defensive rebound and that really turned the game around. We still had a great effort, we still gave ourselves a great chance to win the game." Nowitzki on if he could change Nelson's mind to let him play: "No, not really because he already told me that he was not going to play me no matter what the status is. The risk is just too high. I'm just 24 years-old and hopefully I've got a lot of basketball in front of me - 10, 12, whatever, how many years. The risk would have been just a little bit too high, I understand that. I wasn't a 100% either so hopefully I'll see how it feels tomorrow and it will be a game time decision on Tuesday." Nowitzki on if he argued with Nelson: "Not really. Of course as a player, you want to go out there, especially in a big game like that. But he knows better. He's been in this business for a long time and he's pretty much seen it all. Sometimes you just got to be smart and I think it was a smart move that I sat out today. The injury was just 2 days ago. It's not like it's been a week or so. It's pretty fresh. So it was probably the best choice." Nowitzki: "I want to be pain free. I'm not going to go out there and have pain and worrying about it in the back of my mind. ... I've got to have confidence in the leg that it's not going to buckle under me again. So I have to make sure that I've got my strength and no pain. If I still have pain, then I'm not going to play." Michael Finley: "One of our assets coming into this season was that we had 4 7-footers. Now we're in a series with the MVP and 3 of them are hurt. It makes it tough." Steve Nash: "I think we had an exceeding high sense of confidence, considering the circumstances, before the game. But that's kind of the way our group is. We just feel like anything is possible and together we're pretty tough to beat even without Dirk. We tried to pick it up without him. It was frustrating because we really had a great chance to win this game and for whatever reasons it wasn't meant to be. There were so many unusual plays that happened. The ball didn't bounce our way and they beat us. But we had a chance." Nash on Dallas without Nowitzki: "Well I think we are a different team in that we really don't have a post presence at all. We're not really a post team or an inside team even with Dirk, but at least he can take mismatches down there and with his length he's great around the basket. It give us an inside game to some extent and obviously he's great on the perimeter, but he also very good on the inside and his versatility causes a lot of problems for other people and opens things up for everyone. He's potent at both ends because he's a great defensive rebounder too even if he's not the most physical or best defender, he's still a great defensive rebounder. We missed him in a lot of ways tonight, but mostly I'd say his versatility." Nash on fatigue: "We were tired, no doubt, but we have incredible stamina, so we picked it up again. A lot of it was just breaks. We were going to the basket all night and just didn't get some calls, didn't finish some buckets, and then at the other end of the floor, just some plays where we think we got a steal and all of a sudden ricochets to a guy for a dunk or ricochets to a guy at the 3-point line. You know, it's plays that we can't account for. And all of the sudden they go from down 7 to up 7. Obviously there is a little more to it than that, but you know, we were right there and there is just a lot of bounces that could've gone our way tonight." Nash on Rose: "Malik was big down the stretch. He didn't have a huge game, but the 4th quarter he really played great and kept the ball alive when we got it to 2 points. In the last few minutes, he really did a great job giving them extra chances and taking our shots away by keeping them on offense." Nick Van Exel on Parker: "He came out and he did his thing again. He was aggressive, scoring and finding the basket again. He worked off the pick-and-roll and just created that mismatch. He was able to get his shot up. He was just aggressive." Raef LaFrentz: "We had energy and effort. We did everything we could. Yeah, we could have made more shots. But not having Dirk speaks for itself and Shawn is 7-6 and can do a lot of things for us." Raja Bell: "We wanted to spread the court and take advantage of some of our mismatches and work the shot clock. It worked for a while; then they just hit some big baskets. It was hard because we really didn't have the option to go to our screen-and-roll." San Antonio Spurs 102, Dallas Mavericks 95 at Dallas (May 25) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th - Final 2FG 3FG FG% FT% San Antonio 21 26 30 25 - 102 .547 .261 .461 .839 Dallas 24 28 18 25 - 95 .463 .387 .435 .692 Halftime: Dallas 52-47 3rd Q: San Antonio 77-79 Technicals: Raja Bell 9:07 2nd, Dallas defensive 3 seconds 6:04 4th, Raef LaFrentz 3:55 4th, Malik Rose 3:55 4th Refs: Bernie Fryer, Derrick Stafford, Joe DeRosa Attendance: 20,561 (sellout) Did not play due to injury: Dirk Nowitzki (left knee sprain), Shawn Bradley (right knee sprain), Evan Eschmeyer (sore left knee) San Antonio Spurs REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF STL BLK Bruce Bowen 29 1-8 1-5 1-2 4 1-5 2 1 2 4 0 Tim Duncan 44 8-14 0-1 5-7 21 4-20 7 3 4 1 4 David Robinson 19 1-2 0-0 0-0 2 0-4 1 1 2 0 0 Stephen Jackson 35 6-12 1-7 4-4 17 0-4 3 2 0 3 1 Tony Parker 44 9-22 1-5 6-8 25 0-2 5 2 3 1 0 Emanuel Ginobili 32 8-12 3-5 2-2 21 5-6 1 1 4 2 0 Speedy Claxton 4 0-1 0-0 2-2 2 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 Malik Rose 32 2-5 0-0 4-4 8 4-8 0 1 2 0 1 Steve Kerr 1 0-0 0-0 2-2 2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 48 35-76 6-23 26-31 102 14-49 19 12 18 11 6 Dallas Mavericks REB Player MIN FGM-FGA 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA PTS O-T AST TO PF STL BLK Michael Finley 47 10-19 4-9 1-1 25 2-6 2 1 2 0 0 Walt Williams 31 2-9 1-7 2-2 7 2-8 3 3 4 2 3 Raef LaFrentz 31 3-8 1-4 0-0 7 1-6 0 0 6 0 4 Steve Nash 41 9-19 5-7 2-3 25 1-2 2 3 2 0 0 Nick Van_Exel 42 10-22 1-4 1-2 22 4-8 3 4 3 1 0 Eduardo Najera 25 1-3 0-0 2-2 4 1-3 2 2 1 1 0 Adrian Griffin 10 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 1-2 2 0 0 1 0 Raja Bell 13 2-3 0-0 1-3 5 2-5 1 0 4 0 0 Totals 48 37-85 12-31 9-13 95 14-40 15 13 22 5 7 patricia Go Mavs!