When Dallas Mavericks center Willie Cauley-Stein found out he was going to be in the starting lineup for Monday’s game against the Houston Rockets, the conversation he had with coach Rick Carlisle about the move wasn’t very long.
In fact, Cauley-Stein said: “It was brief. It wasn’t really even a conversation. In our morning meeting we were going over the matchups and he gave us the call that he was going to switch up the lineup today, and that was about as far as it went.”
Cauley-Stein took to the news very well, then went out and scored season highs of 15 points and seven rebounds in helping the Mavs unplug the fuse on the Rockets’ high-powered and get out of town with a 113-100 triumph.