Remember in Forrest Gump when middle-aged Forrest, for no particular reason, decides to run across Greenbow County.
And then he figures, since he’d gone that far, he might as well run all the way across the “great state of Alabama.”
The Mavericks are nearing the county line. Which is both great news and a statement that they still have oceans to go.
But they’ve come this far. They have put themselves solidly in the playoff picture in the Western Conference at 27-20. They have won 11 of their last 13 games. There are only 35 games left this season.