We narrowly avoided a terrible fate tonight folks, with Rashad Vaughn’s missed jumper helping spare us from preseason OT basketball, as the Milwaukee Bucks fell 106-104 against the Dallas Mavericks. Milwaukee’s scrubs acquitted themselves well against Dallas’s B-squad in the second half and the first half came to a relative standstill with Milwaukee down just three. A teeter-totter second half featured huge scoring droughts and runs by each team heading down the stretch. Somehow Dallas eked this one out late after Jonathan Motley got an easy game-winning bucket beneath the rim to knock out the game-tying contested jumper Vaughn nailed on the prior position.