How Mavericks can overtake Clippers with series shifting to Dallas

We knew the first-round matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles would be a hard-fought battle. The series now shifts to Nowitzki Way as a best of five with Dallas looking to prove their recent identity as a lockdown defensive machine, instead of the team that looked easily bullied and unprepared in game one. The Mavericks' offense played catch-up for nearly the entire first game, with P.J Washington being the only other player outside of the star backcourt of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving to take more than ten shots. It got ugly quick, with an embarrassing 2nd quarter where Dallas mustered just eight points pushing any first game Jason Kidd gameplan into the trash.