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Mavs hope to get back on track against reeling Hornets

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03/22/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Dallas Mavericks have been a model of consistency over the last decade and are likely headed to the playoffs for a 10th straight season. Tonight they'll try to keep their road skills sharp when they make a stop in the Big Easy for a showdown with the New Orleans Hornets.

The Southwest Division-leading Mavericks have won five in a row on the road, but have dropped two of three games since a 13-game winning streak. They are coming off Saturday's 102-93 setback versus the Boston Celtics in the finale of a four-game homestand, as Dirk Nowitzki tallied 28 points and Jason Terry posted 18 in defeat.

Shawn Marion registered 16 points and Jason Kidd contributed 11 points, nine assists and six rebounds for Dallas, which went 2-2 on the homestand and is seeded third in the Western Conference, just a half-game behind No. 2 Denver.

"With the exception of the period in the fourth, we were playing from behind for most of the night," Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said. "That made it tough. We got a seven-point lead. You've got to be able to get some stops. We didn't get stops. That was our undoing."

Over his last eight games, Marion is averaging 16.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, 1.4 steals and 1.0 blocks, while shooting 55.6 percent from the floor. Kidd is recording 12.7 points, 6.6 rebounds, 9.3 assists and 1.9 steals in 16 contests since the All-Star break.

Dallas will put its 22-12 road mark to the test Monday night.

The chances of New Orleans reaching the postseason are dwindling by the wayside, as it sits nine games off the eighth and final playoff spot in the West. The Hornets have dropped three straight and 10 of 12 games, including Saturday's 106-86 loss at Utah in the finale of a five-game road trip.

Marcus Thornton had 22 points off the bench and Darren Collison finished with 19 points and six assists for the Hornets, who went 1-4 on the trek and got 14 points and 10 boards from Emeka Okafor.

"The Jazz came out and did what they needed to do to win," Thornton said. "They executed on offense and defense and their guys played good together."

New Orleans forward David West was ejected from the game late in the first quarter after committing a flagrant foul on Utah's Kyle Korver. West had four points before exiting the game.

The Hornets will begin a five-game homestand Monday versus the Mavericks, Cavs, Trail Blazers, Lakers and Wizards, and are 21-12 as the host. Collison has filled in admirably for injured All-Star Chris Paul, averaging 18.2 points, 9.0 assists and 3.5 rebounds in 33 games as a starter.

Dallas has won two of three meetings with New Orleans this season and is 26-6 over the last 32 meetings between the teams. The Hornets have won five in a row as the host in this series.


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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).

Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.

Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).

Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.

Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.

The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.

What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.

Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.

But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.

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