DALLAS -- The home crowd loudly booed at the American Airlines Center during a timeout midway through the third quarter Friday night, when the Dallas Mavericks trailed the Charlotte Hornets by 18 points.
"We probably should have been booed in the first quarter," Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said after a 117-109 loss to an undermanned Charlotte team that dropped Dallas (36-38) to 11th place in the Western Conference standings, a spot out of the play-in scenario.
Kidd described the Mavs' effort as "awful" and "dog s---" in the first quarter, when the 24-51 Hornets scored 37 points despite missing three starters and playing on the second night of a back-to-back.