3rd Quarter analysis: Dallas Mavericks vs. Phoenix Suns
The game between the Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns has covered the third quarter and is now proceeding into the fourth. The Mavericks are in the lead with 80 points, with the Suns at 59.
Arena stats
The game has stretched to an 1 hour and 44 minutes and is being played at the American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX.
Scoring
The game has been tied twice and the lead has changed twice as well.
Box Score
Players' stats
Dallas Mavericks (20-5)
The Dallas Mavericks who are leading the game right now have scored 80 points. The top scorer among them is Jason Terry with 16 points, Shawn Marion and Caron Butler has scored 15 apiece whereas Dirk Nowitzki
is trailing with 11. Tyson Chandler has seven points and 12 rebounds.
The team has grabbed four rebounds till now.
Phoenix Suns (12-12)
The Suns have scored 59 points with Robin Lopez and Goran Dragic both adding 12 points to the box score, Channing Frye and Hakim Warrick both scoring eight points and Grant Hill adding six.
The team has grabbed three rebounds so far.
Play by play
1st Quarter
The ball was thrown between Chandler and Lopez and Jason Kidd gained possession of the ball for the Mavericks. Nowitzki missed the first jump shot and Frye grabbed a rebound for the Suns. The Mavericks had a team rebound after
Hill missed a driving layup shot for the Suns. Frye grabbed a rebound at 11:18 on the clock and DeShawn Stevenson grabbed a rebound for the Mavericks soon right after.
The Phoenix Suns were leading by the end of the 1st quarter 25-22.
2nd Quarter
Frye missed a jump shot for the Suns at the very beginning and Terry made a layup shot for the Mavericks as Jose Barea gave him an assist.
Barea committed a personal foul and Nowitzki grabbed a rebound for the Mavericks.
By the end of the 2nd quarter the Mavericks were leading 54-42.
3rd Quarter
Hill missed a jump shot for the Suns ad Chandler grabbed a rebound for the Mavericks in the very beginning. Butler missed a pull-up jump shot for the Mavericks and Frye grabbed a rebound for the Suns right after him.
Dragic made a jump shot at the very end of the 3rd quarter and the Mavericks headed into play, leading 80-59.
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