The Mavericks did a heroic job against Portland on snow day of overcoming a 10-point deficit in the final 4:30.
But here’s the key to that situation: Don’t get in it again.
“Definitely,” Naji Marshall said Saturday after practice. “Nobody wants to be in that position. But the circumstances were the circumstances. I’m grateful that we could come back. Hopefully in the next game we can do what we do and put the game away in the fourth quarter.”
Having to make a late comeback against a team headed to the lottery is one thing.