The Dallas Mavericks just won their first NBA championship. They did it by torching the defending champion Lakers, taking on the youth and explosion of the Thunder and finally showed the big three in Miami that their talents weren’t enough to stop Dallas’ experience and perseverance. The Mavericks earned this championship, they worked hard for it and kept their cool under pressure.
But before the Finals, before the Thunder and before the Lakers, it was the Portland Trail Blazers that were first team sent packing by the Mavericks. That first series against the Blazers is what really gave the Mavericks the confidence to continue their quest for the championship.
It was game four of the first round when the Blazers scored an outrageous thirty five points in the fourth quarter to the Mavericks fifteen. Ever since that game the Mavericks have not been their previous “soft” and “choking” selves. Thanks to Brandon Roy and the rest of the Blazers the Mavericks were fed up with their poor ability to finish games and series. The Mavericks went on to win the next two against the Blazers and never looked back.
Since game four, the Mavericks were never outscored by double digits in a fourth quarter and in the following seventeen games the Mavericks outscored their opponents by combined 43 points in the fourth quarter. Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks on being crowned NBA champions, and a minor congrats to the Blazers for giving them the kick start they needed.
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