The Dallas Mavericks (19-29) head out on the road to face off against the Houston Rockets (29-17) in a Saturday night ABC showdown of division rivals. It\u2019s not as much of a showdown as the network would like, with Dallas stumbling as of late, most recently dropping one to the Charlotte Hornets. Houston mostly recently walloped the Atlanta Hawks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Heres the main things you need to know before tipoff.<\/p>\n
I have to say\u2026 this is the best Dallas Mavericks injury report in a while. Yes, the same four guys who have been out forever are still out (Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, Dante Exum, Dereck Lively), but past that\u2026 everyone else is a go, even the two way guys you\u2019d expect (Moussa Cisse, Ryan Nembhard). Steven Adams is now out for the season after it was determined his ankle needed surgery. Fred Van Vleet has been out for the Rockets all year.<\/p>\n
This will be the fourth and final game of the season series between these two teams. Dallas lost the first in early November but hung around, then took the next two games from Houston. In the second game, they sat key players and hoped to get by and did not. In the third game, All-Star forward Alperin Sengun hurt himself minutes into the contest.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not like Houston needs this game, but Dallas is sliding into a true losing streak after finally looking like they were turning a corner. The three point shooting between these two teams is what I\u2019d keep an eye on. Offensive rebounding can be a key, but Dallas has managed to hang around in that department these last two games.<\/p>\n
Consider joining Josh and me on Pod Maverick live after the game on YouTube, we should start LATE. Thanks so much for spending time with us here at Mavs Moneyball. Let\u2019s go Mavs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks (19-29) head out on the road to face off against the Houston Rockets (29-17) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,63972,292,194,4066,39459,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-574320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas-mavericks-discussion","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-mavericks-game-coverage","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115993388315237117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}