CHICAGO - Learning to win is an acquired taste at the pro sports level. Not everybody gets it.
Learning to lose can happen without you even knowing it.
And it can be a hard habit to break.
What we don't know is whether the Mavericks are breaking in their younger players at crunch time of close games so they can learn from the experiences and someday be cold-blooded killers down the stretch of tight games.
Or are they just learning bad habits.
Learning to lose, in other words.
"The best way to learn is to be in those situations and play all these different teams," Harrison Barnes said.