It’s amazing what one game can do to a team’s mindset, as Derek Harper said. The Dallas Mavericks’ much needed win against the New York Knicks Saturday showed how little it takes for this team to change momentum.
Though it seems small, it has felt very large for weeks, insurmountable even. But something happened at halftime in New York and that something seems to be exactly what many of us have have been calling for the last weeks. Energy, effort on defense, and leadership on the court.
The energy changed, the Mavericks looked different, acted differently—a change so tangible, you could feel it right through the screen.