In sports, kind of like in life, when you have a good thing going, you try to ride it as long as you can.
If it flames out before achieving greatness, it’s probably time to change.
For the Mavericks, it definitely was time to change.
They had a good thing going when they won seven games in a row and coach Jason Kidd was justified in going with it as long as he could.
Then, hard times hit.
On Thursday, with five losses in six games as his ammo, he pulled the trigger and made changes that helped procure a 114-108 win over Miami at American Airlines Center.