The Dallas Mavericks (6 - 4) defeated the Houston Rockets (4 - 6) 110 - 98 on Saturday. The Mavericks pulled off an impressive upset over a struggling Rockets team thanks to some depth and good defense. The biggest discrepancy in the game were the bench points, as the Mavericks bench outscored the Rockets bench 44 - 32 in the victory, which was a much more lopsided number until a late hot - streak from Jason Terry. Dallas also shot 48 percent from the field, while Houston could only hit 38 percent of their shots. Both these teams are going in opposite directions right now and this game is indicative of the team's recent forms. The Mavericks played well yet again on Saturday and they appear to be finding their rhythm. This now gives them four wins in their last five games and they have been averaging over 110 points a game in that stretch. The impressive part of this win is that they did it in the absence of Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler Parsons and Wesley Matthews, who were all resting on Saturday. Dallas got some great starts from Charlie Villanueva and Raymond Felton, who totaled 42 points and 11 rebounds in the absence of Nowitzki and Matthews. Most basketball fans wrote off the Mavericks at the beginning of the season, but they are proving to be a force to be reckoned with right now. They'll look to keep up the good form in a game where they'll be favored against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday The Rockets put in another poor performance once again at home in whats been a disappointing season thus far, The Rockets were led by Terrence Jones who tallied 23 points, six rebounds and three blocks in the loss. James Harden put together another good line, but it was a poor performance from the MVP candidate. In fact, he started with 11 straight misses and ended the game shooting 5 - for - 21 with six turnovers committed in the loss. He did got 14 - for - 14 from the free - throw line to salvage his line, but the Rockets need better shooting out of their superstar. This is not the same Rockets team from last year and they have some major work to do to pull themselves out of this hole they are digging. They'll start that digging against the Boston Celtics on Monday.
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