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Dallas Mavericks News
February 26th 2010

New Look Mavericks Gaining Confidence

There are trades that look good the moment they happen (to the highly trained, expert, don't-try-this-at-home eye) but take a couple of years to prove it.

Jason Kidd comes to mind.

And then there are trades that look really, really good the instant they take place. And two weeks later, you feel like you underestimated their magnitude even when you thought you were going overboard in praise.

Enter the Wizards-to-Mavericks deal made All-Star weekend.

Those who said that center Brendan Haywood, not former All-Star guard Caron Butler, was really the key to the deal – owner Mark Cuban was first but not alone in this chorus – were dead on. And that's what makes the Mavericks' current five-game winning streak more significant than any they've had in years.

But to understand why, we have to go back to Butler once more.

An East All-Star three years ago, Butler has been in a Mavericks uniform for 10 days and has done the highly improbable – if not the impossible – twice already.

Three times if you count getting his trademark straw-chewing banned by the NBA. (What's that all about?)

As for the two things more relevant to Dallas fans, first, Butler came to town and made the trade a winner by shooting worse than Josh Howard.

Seriously.

The Mavericks rid themselves of Howard's stale act and his 40 percent shooting this season in exchange for a guy who shot 37 percent in his first five games here. In fact, Butler has shot 40 percent or higher one time in five starts for Dallas .

But Butler 's willingness to attack the rim and the defensive effort he showed in his opening minutes as a Maverick against Oklahoma City 's Kevin Durant left no one yearning for Howard's return.

Then, going a step beyond just erratic shooting, Butler didn't even suit up against the Lakers on Wednesday after an unusual reaction to medication.

That made the trade look better yet.

DeShawn Stevenson, clearly the third man in this trade, put the clamps on Kobe Bryant early before Shawn Marion showed his effectiveness against the game's best player at the end.

And all the while, there was Haywood – 11 points, nine rebounds and five blocks in Dallas ' 101-96 win over the NBA champs.

Let's be fair. The Mavericks get this kind of game occasionally from Erick Dampier, or did, before he broke a finger last week. It's not as if the much-maligned Damp never has a 10-10 game or hasn't altered a shot since he got to Dallas .

In the only playoff series Dallas has won since losing to Miami in the '06 Finals, Dampier was very effective in limiting Tim Duncan.

But Haywood – younger, more athletic and without question a better shot-blocker – has been giving Dallas this kind of game almost every night.

When a team improves its defense in all areas, it's not unusual that the threat of a shot-blocker is involved.

Keeping in mind that the Mavs defense was conducting layup drills going into the All-Star break, Dallas has allowed 90.2 points per game in the last five games.

Second best in the league.

Teams are hitting 43.8 percent of their shots, 22.6 percent of their 3-point tries in that stretch.

Seventh and first in the league, respectively.

And for the season, Haywood's 2.14 blocks rank No. 3. His average of 2.83 since coming to Dallas is slightly higher than league leader Dwight Howard (2.81) of Orlando .

A Superman imitator in our midst? Haywood really does look like the key to the deal, at least for now.

You have to think that Butler , a career 44 percent shooter, will find that shooting touch. At that point, this deal becomes the kind of thing that puts Dallas on a level floor with Denver for the No. 2 spot in the West.

Meanwhile, long-suffering Wizards fans already have seen Drew Gooden go to the Clippers and Josh Howard lost for the season with a knee injury.

This wasn't a trade, it was a heist.

Oh yeah, steals. The Mavericks are fifth in the league (8.6 per game) in this five-game stretch.

A team trying to establish its identity following a roster-changing trade is doing it with defense.

This is new for the Mavericks. This is a good thing.

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