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The Dallas Mavericks have no room for error when they host the Phoenix Suns on Thursday dark at the American Airlines Center. The Mavericks must find a way to beat the Suns to fifty-fifty the series at iii-3 or the team volition be eliminated from the postseason.

The bad news is the Mavericks are coming off a sorry performance in a Game v loss. The Suns held Dallas to only 9 assists on Tuesday, the commencement fourth dimension since 2016 a team has been held to fewer than 10 assists in a playoff game.

The good news is the Mavs have won four-straight home playoff games since losing the opener of the Utah series in the first round. Bonus expert news: Reggie Bullock appeared to endure a leg injury on Tuesday and limped off the floor, simply he is not listed on the injury report for Game 6.

Terminal: In what turned out to exist the real 'Luka Special' on Th night, the Mavs blew out the Suns past the final score of 113-86 to force a winner-take-all Game seven in Phoenix on Dominicus. Doncic finished with 33 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and iv steals in 35 minutes of action.

TO THE Quaternary: Dallas is maintaining its lead over the Suns in large part due to Phoenix' strategy of playing Doncic tight on the perimeter - and Luka blowing by his defender.

The first dunk ...

And the second ...

He did information technology on back-to-back possessions in the third - dunking both times, and revving up his AAC audition.

It's Mavs 94, Suns with Doncic setting the pace (28 points) and with Dallas having recorded 12 steals (to none for the Suns) and Dallas shooting ... from 3.

HALFTIME: For at least a moment to showtime the second quarter, information technology looked like somebody beyond Luka Doncic might take to do even more than, as Doncic exited the floor with a leg injury.

Doncic did return to the locker room soon after the outset of the second period (with Dallas up after one), hopefully to return; he's was riding a stationary bike, trying to piece of work out what might exist a thigh problem.

He worked it out.

Doncic was back on the flooring midway through the 2nd, and pushed Dallas to a lx-45 halftime pb. He's got 18 points, six rebounds and four assists, but likewise cardinal has been the defense force of Reggie Bullock and visitor on Devin Booker, who had viii points in the commencement quarter merely none in the 2d.

Meanwhile, the other Suns star, Chris Paul, has only 5 points and two assists - and Bullock has helped on both ends with xiii points and five rebounds.

Ringlet to Keep

Kickoff QUARTER: It'due south Dallas 28, Suns 25, with a feisty Luka Doncic leading the way with 11 points.

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The Suns' Devin Booker - no friends with Luka right virtually at present - countered with eight points in the flow, role of Phoenix shooting 56 percentage from the floor.

Dallas' defense force does already have four steals.

PREVIEW INFO: After an ugly Game 5 loss in Phoenix, a rivalry betwixt immature All-Stars Doncic and Devin Booker is heating up. The two players once again exchanged barbs, Booker with theatrics and Doncic with mumbled words equally part of Tuesday's Game 5 drama.

As Doncic walked to the visiting locker room with his teammates, Doncic sent a mumbled-but-pointed message back to the Suns.

"Everybody acts tough,'' Doncic said, fuming, "when they're upward."

A take chances to upset the defending Western Conference champion Suns, who produced the NBA'southward all-time regular season record of 64-xviii, at home and and then on the route? Luka Doncic might exist facing the biggest challenge of his career... and opportunity to farther cement his stardom.

LUKA MAGIC: Luka Doncic (32.5 ppg) owns the second-highest career scoring average in playoff history, just backside Michael Jordan (33.4 ppg). In this second circular series against Phoenix, his scoring average has increased to 32 points per competition.