As the Mavs attempt to climb from seventh spot in the West, they're not playing any of different groups in the main seven until their twelfth game after the All-Star break. They're additionally avoiding potential risk with their two stars. The Mavs sat both Luka Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis for the second round of a consecutive on Saturday, tumbling to 5-8 without Doncic in the wake of blowing a noteworthy lead in Atlanta.

They've won eight of their last 11 games in which Doncic has played, with their success in Orlando on Friday being the fifth time in that stretch wherein he's gone to the line for at any rate 10 free toss endeavors. His free toss pace of 44.8 endeavors per 100 shots from the field is up from 40.9 last season and positions eighth among 108 players with in any event 500 field objective endeavors, however his free toss rate (76.5%) positions nineteenth among 28 players who have arrived at the midpoint of at any rate five endeavors for every game.The Mavs have three back-to-backs remaining, including one toward the finish of a four-game excursion that starts Wednesday in San Antonio