What the Mavericks Must Do Above All Else
Win One More Game in Los Angeles
To move on to the next round, that's mandatory. The team who wins Game 5 in a best-of-seven series tied at two games apiece advances 81.7% of the time (188-42). The Clippers have won each of their three home games by an average of 24.3 points.
When it comes to the Dallas Mavericks postseason hopes, the importance of Wednesday night's Game 5 matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers is impossible to overstate.
In all six games of this series (including Games 1 and 4), the Clippers have either led by an extraordinary amount or come back from significant deficits. If the Mavericks want to avoid elimination, they'll need to play a complete game and avoid the kind of mental mistakes that have plagued them at times in this series.
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