INDIANAPOLIS – That season-high seven-game winning streak the Dallas Mavericks recently stitched together is no more. It
tumbled by the wayside thanks to Sunday’s 133-111 road loss at the hands of the Indiana Pacers.
But there were indeed some lessons learned in what became the first loss since guard Kyrie Irving returned on Feb. 5 after missing six games due to a sprained right thumb.
“We always try to learn something in wins and losses,” Irving said. “But when we have road games like this where we don’t play as well as we would like, or we don’t have the energy particularly required to withstand a few runs from away teams (it’s not good).