The Dallas Mavericks continue to waffle between historic unstoppable offense and bottom of the barrel defense, matching the level of play against their toughest opponents and dipping down to play against their weakest. They are consistent, you can give them that.
It is those reasons why their record continues to sniff .500, why teams fear facing the two-headed attack of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, and why playoff teams will likely never be out of a game when the Mavericks are leading. In many ways the team should be thanking the basketball gods above that they have one of the easiest remaining schedules in the league.