Gilbert Arenas dishes out four assists but doesn’t take a shot. Crowd was almost pleading with him to do something for himself.
Caron Butler led all scorers with 14 points on 5-for-8 shooting.
Dirk Nowtizki (8 points) had little trouble with Antawn Jamison. No suprise there, really.
DeShawn Stevenson drives to the hoop, gets fouled and spills onto the ground. A full 5 seconds pass before any of his teammates come to help him up. Generally that’s not an awesome indication of chemistry.
Brendan Haywood fouled early on a putback, turns his right ankle — plays on then departs for locker room midway through the quarter.
Highlight of the quarter: Andray Blatche gets blocked by Erick Dampier at one end, then Jason Terry hits Shawn Marion for the alley oop at the other…
