The Dallas Mavericks (18 - 13) defeated the Milwaukee Bucks (12 - 20) 103 - 93 on Monday night. Dallas led 34 - 24 after the first quarter and never relinquished the lead after that. The Bucks came into this game as the worst rebounding team in the NBA, but actually outrebounded Dallas 52 - 34 in the loss. They also outshot Dallas and that's a rare sight to see a team win when getting outrebounded and outshot. The difference for the Mavericks were the turnovers, as they committed just four to the Bucks 17. Milwaukee has been terrible on the road all season and they didn’t play great here. No player scored more than 19 points and the team had a lack of offensive execution that was clearly evident. In fact, Milwaukee had just 14 assists and that's not good enough in an NBA game. Jerryd Bayless made his return from injury and played brilliantly, contributing 19 points and seven assists off the bench. The road woes are a big worry for this team and it'll likely get worse on Tuesday when they have to take on the Thunder in Oklahoma City. This was one of the first games all year that the team got a full complement of minutes from all of its players. Wesley Matthews and Chandler Parsons both suffered devastating injuries last season, but they both started here and played at least 30 minutes for the first time together. Matthews scored a team - high 22 points and continues to play great defense. The most underrated acquisition from the summer was Zaza Pachulia though, as he had another great game on Monday. Pachulia amassed 17 points, eight rebounds, two assists and two steals in the win. This team was expected to have a down year, but these veterans simply wo n't allow that to happen. Dallas has a tough task in their next game when they host the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday.
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 "TeamStat(G,'Bucks') has 14 Number of team assists ,has 20 Losses ,has 93 Total points ,has 24 Points in 1st quarter ,has 52 Rebounds ,has 17 Turnovers ,has 12 Wins ."]