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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Three of Kevin Durant's four assists went to Serge Ibaka for dunks. Russell Westbrook added a dish for an Ibaka dunk, too.

Dribble penetrations led to the Mavericks' bigs being forced to help and leaving the 6-foot-10 Ibaka to catch and throw down. Of his season-high 22 points in Oklahoma City's Game 1, 12 came via the dunk.

"That's just because of the breakdown at the beginning of the play," said Mavs guard Jason Kidd. "We've got to limit our mistakes at the beginning because that's where he did get a lot of the finishes is because of the breakdown at the beginning. So if we can limit that then hopefully he doesn't get as many in Game 1."

It puts a lot of pressure on the Mavs' defenders, all at least 10 years older than OKC's three playmakers and not as quick -- with the exception of Delonte West -- to stay in front of their man and not allow penetration into the lane. Once Durant, Westbrook or James Harden get by their man, it forces the Mavs' forwards or center to come off Ibaka to prevent the layup.

Delonte West said after Monday morning's shootaround that he is back to full strength after playing through Game 1 with a stomach bug that sapped his energy. So he should be able to give Westbrook (28 points, five assists in Game 1) a better fight. Kidd, Vince Carter and Shawn Marion will have to do a better job keeping the Thunder out on the perimeter and not in the paint.

"It's help defense and we just have to stay in front our man from the beginning," Carter said.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rick Carlisle really doesn’t care that Thunder coach Scott Brooks portrayed him as a chronic complainer.

Brooks, Carlisle’s former CBA roommate, told reporters Sunday that the media should just use Carlisle’s quotes from last year’s West finals on the subject of Oklahoma City’s physical defense on Dirk Nowitzki instead of bothering with the fresh material from the Game 1 aftermath.

Carlisle shrugged off Brooks’ jab, saying he was simply calling it as he sees it. While Carlisle hopes the officials call fouls when they see the Thunder roughing up Nowitzki, the coach insists his comments on the issue aren’t an attempt to influence officiating.

“If there’s been a memo issued saying that if you elbow a guy in the throat it’s legal, I would appreciate that memo being passed along,” Carlisle said. “And I will say this, and I sincerely mean this, if one of our guys elbows [Kevin] Durant or [Russell] Westbrook or Reggie Jackson or Cole Aldrich, that’s a foul. You know, it just happened to be a play that was missed.”

That was a reference to a play just before halftime, when Nowitzki was called for an offensive foul for elbowing Serge Ibaka while fighting for position. According to Carlisle, the first elbow was thrown by Ibaka.

Carlisle used that play as an example when asked about the defense played by Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins on Nowitzki after the Mavs’ Game 1 loss.

“When I was asked about that, I was asked about my opinion, and I made two statements of fact,” Carlisle said. “It’s not posturing or positioning. They were two statements of fact. You’re talking about a guy who has been very difficult to officiate because of his unusual skill set, and he gets played very physically, and we’ve seen it for four years. That’s a fact. That’s not an attempt to lobby the league. That’s a fact of life we have to deal with, and Dirk does a great job with it.

“But hey, look, it’s physical. We don’t expect it not to be. We’re going to have to be a little bit more physical tonight. That’s a part of the game where we feel we can pick it up a little bit.”

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Mavericks were a Kevin Durant bucket away from seizing the lead in this first-round series. They did so many things right that led to a seven-point lead with 2 1/2 minutes to play.

The reactions from each side were obvious: The Mavs lamented the close loss, while the Thunder felt like they got away with one without playing their best ball. But do they think they got the best the Mavs had to offer while still walking away with a 1-0 series lead.

"Those guys, man, they’re a mentally tough team," Durant said. "They come at you in so many different ways so I don’t think we got their best shot. We’ve just got to keep playing. Our defense was decent. We’ve just go to continue to pick each other up. We’ll see what happens. This is a long series."

Dallas won so many of the key areas it emphasizes before everything broke down in the final 180 seconds or so. The Mavs outrebounded OKC 42-36 and outscored the Thunder in second-chance points 14-6. For much of the game they kept the Thunder out of the lane and forced jumpers. And they kept them off the free throw line, owning a 25-20 advantage in free throw attempts and a 20-17 edge in points.

The glaring miscues at the end were the difference with Dallas turning it over four times in the fourth quarter. Surprisingly, three came from Dirk Nowitzki, with two in the final 90 seconds.

"You always know that they can play better because they have in the past," Thunder coach Scott Brooks said. "They are the defending champions, although they don’t have a few of the players they won the championship with last year. But they have some key players that are champions and are going to have good games. We have to keep fighting them and forcing them to take tough shots. I thought we did that in the second half [of Game 1] as well as we’ve done."

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Delonte West struggled to get through 27 minutes of action in Saturday's Game 1, taking his fair share of lumps trying to guard Russell Westbrook and never really getting involved in the offense.

Later that night, he expelled the rest of whatever else had caused his stomach to turn Friday night and Saturday morning -- and then tweeted out a photo to prove it.

"I woke up (Sunday), my headache was pretty much gone," West said. "Now I'm trying to get some fluids down. I’ll be ready to go (today).

His status for Game 1 was uncertain, but despite still not feeling well at game time and unable to hold much down, West suited up and was in the starting lineup. Westbrook then ran circles around him, scoring 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the first quarter with a deadly jumper on his way to a game-high 28 points.

The Mavs will need West at his feistiest to help contain Westbrook, who destroyed Dallas with his mid-range game. West simply could not keep up.

"That was the biggest thing," West said. "It wasn’t so much the nausea, I didn’t have the energy and I couldn’t really get no fluids down so I was kind of battling that, that uphill battle, but like I said, I feel real rested and I’m looking forward to being 100 percent."

During the regular season, Westbrook averaged 22.8 points, 3.5 assists and 6.0 rebounds. The Mavs, though, have been able to keep his shooting percentage to 39.2 percent from the floor and 30.8 percent from beyond the arc. That didn't happen in Game 1 when Westbrook hit 13-of-23 shots and made one of his two 3-point attempts.

"He poses a lot of havoc for any defense," West said. "He’s able to score the basketball, but it’s a team effort. One guy can't hold a guy like that. Like I said, we’re going to have to collectively do a better job of limiting his easy shots."

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Shawn Marion felt he contested Kevin Durant's game-winning shot so well that he said Durant probably didn't even see the rim when he put up the 15-footer from free throw line.

"It was great defense. I don't even think he could see the rim," Marion said after the Thunder's 99-98 comeback victory in Game 1. "There was no way he could see the rim. He just threw that (ball) up and it rolled in. Like I said, we should have never been in that position, but you got to give him credit because he hit a hell of a shot."

After the Thunder's Sunday workout at their practice facility, Durant, who hit a game-winning 3-pointer against the Mavs on Dec. 29, refuted Marion's claim about not seeing the rim.

"I took a glance at it when I was dribbling," Durant said, smiling. "I took so many shots since I've been playing this game, you kind of now where you are on the floor and I've been working on that pull-up for a while. It's a difficult shot over two guys, but Shawn Marion did a great job of contesting, and I got that bounce. And you always hear about the shooter's bounce. I'm glad it went in for me."

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Thunder features the NBA’s most explosive scoring trio. Serge Ibaka isn’t part of that group.

You wouldn’t know that by watching Game 1 of this series.

Ibaka exploded for 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting in the Thunder’s 99-98 win. Yes, the same Serge Ibaka who averaged 9.1 points per game and had a season high of 20.

How can the Mavs keep the Thunder’s complementary offensive threat from killing them?

“Well, we’ll try to take away his 3s,” Mavs coach Rick Carlisle deadpanned.

OK, so the shot from the top of the arc that Ibaka drilled before the halftime buzzer was only the third 3-pointer of the high-flying power forward’s career. Ibaka has nice touch on his midrange game, but, as usual, he did the vast majority of his damage around – and above – the rim.

“We don’t want to let him dunk the ball easily around the basket,” Carlisle said. “There are things we can do.”

The Mavs can’t let Ibaka light it up. They have their hands full enough trying to contain Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Dallas sixth man Jason Terry picked right up where he left off in last season’s playoffs: shooting the ball well and making bold promises.

Terry scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting in the Mavericks’ Game 1 loss Saturday night to the Oklahoma City Thunder. But Terry, who prides himself on being a clutch performer, was shut down by Russell Westbrook in the fourth quarter.

Not only did Terry go scoreless in the fourth quarter, he hardly touched the ball. He attempted only one shot despite his sizzling shooting up to that point.

“Doesn’t even matter,” Terry said after the Mavs’ practice Sunday. “I bet I get touches this next fourth quarter. I will. That’s all I can tell you. I can’t tell you other than that. And you know when I say it, it’s going to happen.”

Terry carries that kind of credibility after he backed up his big words against the Miami Heat in last season’s NBA Finals.

After being shut out in the fourth quarter of the Mavs’ Games 1 and 3 losses, Terry’s response was to puff out his chest and challenge LeBron James, who the Heat used to defend Dirk Nowitzki’s closing sidekick in crunch time.

“Let’s see him do that for seven games,” Terry said the day before Game 4.

The rest of the story is part of Mavs lore. Terry scored eight points in the fourth quarter of a comeback win in Game 4. He had eight points in the final 3:23 of the Game 5, including a game-tying 3 and a deep dagger over James. And Terry scored a game-high 27 points in the clinching Game 6.

If Terry talks the talk and walks the walk against King James, you think he’s going to back down from Westbrook?

“Whoever they throw, it doesn’t matter,” Terry said. “We’ll have success.”

Of course, it’s not as simple as it sounds. The Mavs spent significant time during Saturday’s film session discussing how to get Terry free if the ridiculously quick Westbrook continues denying him all over the floor during crunch time.

“I can do some things to get Jet a little more involved,” said coach Rick Carlisle, who mentioned that the Mavs need to have better balance instead of just going to Nowitzki every possession down the stretch.

“We have to figure out different ways to get Jet in different positions to get the ball to be successful,” point guard Jason Kidd said. “We expect to see that tomorrow. Hopefully we can get him in the right spot and hopefully he’s still hot. He had a great game, and it was our fault that we couldn’t get him the ball in that fourth quarter.”

Westbrook had a lot to do with it, too. Terry promises that won’t be a trend.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Serge Ibaka has grown up in more ways than one. The chiseled specimen that is the 6-foot-10, 235-pound shot-blocking machine has also learned how to play better man-on-man defense, and he showed it to Dirk Nowitzki.

A year ago Ibaka, just 22, had no clue how to attack Dirk on the perimeter. He was burned by the fallaway and by drives because he was off-balance and guessing. In Monday's Game 1, Ibaka proved to be a difficult defender for Dirk to shake. And then in crunch time, OKC coach Scott Brooks made the switch to the scowling, 270-pound Kendrick Perkins, aided by swarming guards when Dirk attempted to the put the ball on the floor.

It led to a terrible beginning and end for Nowitzki, who started the game 2-of-9 from the floor and ended it with a couple of turnovers in the final 90 seconds with Perkins breathing on him and the guards collapsing to take the ball away.

"He's an improved player," Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said of Ibaka, who also terrorized Dallas at the other end with 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting that included six dunks and six rebounds. "You've got to give him his props for how he's developing, how they're developing him. He's more than just a shot-blocker."

Ibaka still had a game-high five of those despite most of his 39 minutes spent shadowing Nowitzki. OKC feared that using Ibaka to guard Nowitzki removes him from his comfort zone as a rim protector. Ibaka frustrated Nowitzki at the end of the first half when Nowitzki reacted to what Carlisle later called grabbing and holding by Ibaka, but the call went against Dirk with 12.5 seconds to go.

Then Ibaka drained just his third career 3-pointer from the top of the arc with 1.4 seconds left to cut the Mavs' lead to 51-48 at the half.

All-in-all, Nowitzki had 25 points, but also just two more buckets (8-of-18) than turnovers (six). Those are numbers OKC will take every time.

Putting Perkins on Nowitzki in crunch time seemed a bit curious if only because Ibaka had done a solid job and Perkins seemed an easy victim of a Dirk dribble penetration. But the Thunder had experimented with the matchup during the regular season, and that would not be the case as Nowitzki twice lost the handle against Perkins' stout frame.

"It’s nice to give a guy a different look," Brooks said. "You give a star player like Dirk, the guy has seen everything, he’s seen every type of defense on him and he always seems to have 25 to 28 points. It’s just nice to give him another player and Perk’s a different player. He’s more physical, he gets into the body more, but Serge did a good job also. I like the fact that Perk got in there and made him miss some shots, but our hands were active , too, and other defenders were getting in there and swiping at the basketball."

Grades are in for the Mavs' Game 1 loss to the Thunder, and they range from C-plus to B. Nothing great, but you wouldn't have to hide the report card from your parents.

Check the grades out here.

How would you grade the Mavs' Game 1 performance on offense, defense, bench play and coaching?

OKLAHOMA CITY – So much for the mental mojo the Mavericks might have had over the baby-faced Thunder.

By pulling off an impressive Game 1 comeback, Oklahoma City eliminated any doubt that it had the basketball IQ and cojones to compete with the defending champions during crunch time. That was a major question mark, considering the Dallas’ dominance in closing time during last year’s West finals, but that clearly didn’t cloud the Thunder’s minds with the game on the line.

The Mavs had a seven-point lead with 2:31 remaining. OKC – which no longer stands for Oklahoma Kan’t Closed – finished with a 12-4 run to take the 1-0 series lead. That could be a huge confidence boost for a team whose four best players – Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Serge Ibaka – are all younger than Rodrigue Beaubois.

“We had to play nearly perfect basketball on both ends of the floor,” Thunder coach Scott Brooks said of the last 150 seconds, “and we did.”

Durant’s high-degree-of-difficulty game-winner will dominate discussion of this game, but Oklahoma City puts itself in position to win with suffocating defense. Dallas didn’t have a field goal after Nowitzki’s jumper with 2:31 remaining, scoring solely from the free throw line, including one trip by Ian Mahinmi that came at the end of one of the sloppiest possessions of the season.

With center Kendrick Perkins bodying up on him and double teams coming at him. Nowitzki committed a couple of turnovers in the last 90 seconds, one of which led to a breakaway dunk for Durant.

With Westbrook denying him all over the floor, Jason Terry was a nonfactor the entire fourth quarter after lighting it up for 20 points on 8-of-9 shooting through the third.

“In the fourth quarter, we turned it up a notch,” Westbrook said. “That’s what the playoffs are all about.”

The Mavs put on a clinic in playoff closing last season. It appears that OKC’s kids learned well.

OKLAHOMA CITY – It takes a lot more than one good punch to knock out a champion.

Make no mistake, this one hurt the Mavericks. They had Game 1 stolen on the road, leading by seven points with three minutes remaining, before they let it slip away. Or before the Thunder seized the game, depending on one’s perspective.

Either way, Dallas is dealing with a 1-0 series deficit after Kevin Durant’s game-winning 15-footer bounced in the bucket. How will the Mavs respond?

“We’re going to keep coming at these guys,” coach Rick Carlisle said. “Trust me, we’re going to keep coming at them.

“We have a tough-minded team. We have a locker room full of champions and these guys have big heart. We put ourselves in a strong position tonight and we didn’t get it done. It’s on us. It’s on us. But we will not be deterred. We’re going to keep coming back at these guys. That’s what we have to do.”

The Mavs came back strong after every tough loss during their title run last year.

They didn’t let a historic collapse in the Rose Garden linger after the blew a 23-point lead in the second half against the Trail Blazers, evening the first-round series after four games. That was Portland’s last win of the series.

They answered Oklahoma City’s Game 2 win at the American Airlines Center by winning the final three games of the West finals.

They twice trailed in the NBA Finals, losing Games 1 and 3 to the Heat, but were celebrating at Miami Beach’s Club Liv after Game 6.

Granted, some key members of that team departed Dallas after the lockout, including emotional leader Tyson Chandler. But the majority of the Mavs’ rotation owns a championship ring, and newcomers Delonte West and Vince Carter have significant playoff experience.

“If a team can recover from it,” Dirk Nowitzki said of such a disappointing loss, “it’s an experienced one.”

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The kids have learned how to close.

"It’s been a pattern with them," Mavericks guard Jason Terry. "They’ve played probably the most close games all year long whether it was with us or somebody else and so it’s just their style and they know how to get it done."

The Oklahoma City Thunder certainly won Game 1 of this first-round best-of-7 series with style. Kevin Durant hit the game winner with 1.4 seconds to go. The soft jumper from just beyond the free throw line hit front iron, bounced back and dropped in. It was Durant's second buzzer-beater of the season against Dallas and the Thunder's third time in four wins to pull the game out in crunch time.

Jet's right. It is a pattern for a Thunder team that was criticized in the West finals last season for not being able to close and still hears about it. OKC won its sixth game of the season by three or fewer points to move to 6-4 in those games. The Mavs dropped to 7-9 in such games with two of those losses coming to the Thunder.

"We came up with those bounces [last year] and we were the ones on top," Dirk Nowitzki said. "Too many times in close games, I think we have a losing record in those games, it's tough. It's definitely as tough a loss as you can get."

If the Mavs hope to even the series on Monday and eventually win it, they'll have to figure out quickly how to regain their late-game mojo, both getting stops defensively and executing on the offensive end. Terry says there are more fantastic finishes coming.

"It’s always been like this with these guys and it’s going to continue to be like that," Terry said. "I expect us to come out and put up a championship performance and come out and be the aggressor."

Here are three more areas of interest heading into Sunday's day of rest:

1. Stopping Serge: The Thunder's explosive power forward had a huge Game 1 with 22 points, six rebounds and five blocked shots. His two and-1s in the final 1:47 of the game got OKC within 94-92 and game it the lead 97-96 with 53.9 seconds to play. Ibaka was 9-of-12 from the field with six dunks, a layup and a 3-point buzzer-beater to end the first half. Several dunks came when his defender helped on a driving Durant, leaving Ibaka free to catch the dish and soar for the dunk.

2. Ailing West: Delonte West spent Friday night and Saturday morning vomiting, but he managed to get himself together enough to play in Game 1. He played 27 minutes, but clearly he did not look in peak condition. He had an awful time early trying to stay with Russell Westbrook, who was nailing his mid-range jumper. West was just 2-of-5 from the floor for five points, including a big 3-pointer from the corner in the fourth quarter. He had two assists and a bad turnover. He acknowledged that he wasn't involved much in the game. That will have to change in Game 2 and the Mavs should get a more spirited effort from West as his body recovers from the stomach ailment.

3. Dirk's turnovers: Is Nowitzki becoming turnover-prone in crunch time? It was an issue in a couple of games late in the season and his two turnovers in the final 90 seconds of Game 1 were obviously crucial. Nowitzki had three of his game-high six turnovers in the fourth quarter and five in the second half. Several of his turnovers came as he tried to drive into the lane, but was swarmed by Thunder defenders.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was talking to a room of reporters, but it felt like he was trying to send a message to the referees who will work the rest of this series.

Asked about the defense Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins played on Dirk Nowitzki in the Mavs’ Game 1 loss, Carlisle emphasized how physically the Thunder played the Mavs’ superstar.

“They’re going to do things to try to disrupt his rhythm,” Carlisle said. “They’re going to grab and hold. To me, a typical example is the play before the first half ends. He’s getting grabbed and held, and they call a foul on Dirk because he’s just reacting to all the contact. You know, that turns into a possession for them and they hit a 3. It’s a big momentum play.

“I’ve seen this for four years. Dirk Nowitzki’s the hardest guy in the league to guard because at 22 feet, if you back up and take your hands off him, he’s going to make the shot. So people grab and hold him all the time. I mean, all the time. He shows incredible restraint in those areas.”

Nowitzki scored 25 points on 8-of-18 shooting, but he had almost as many turnovers as buckets. Two of his six turnovers came in the final 90 seconds, when Perkins bodied up on Nowitzki as the Mavs were in the midst of crumbling in crunch time.

Nowitzki appeared to express frustration with the officials a handful of times during the game. That included the play Carlisle referenced at the end of the first half, when Nowitzki was called for an offensive foul after throwing an elbow at Ibaka while they fought for position, and a few times when the whistle didn’t blow after Nowitzki drew contact on drives to the basket early in the game.

When asked about Carlisle’s comments, Nowitzki answered diplomatically.

“I always talk during the game a lot,” he said, referring to conversations with officials. “My style is never to complain after the game. I won’t do it now.”

It is worth noting that the officiating crew of Joey Crawford, David Guthrie and Tony Brothers wasn’t whistle happy on either end. The Mavs had a 25-20 free throw advantage.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- How it happened: Consider the switch flipped -- and it still couldn't reel a win against the amazing Thunder.

The creaky, old defending champion Mavericks played a whale of a game Saturday night, seamlessly returning on cue to the team-oriented, defensive-minded game plan that took them all the way to the title last season. Dallas had Game 1 in their hip pocket. Only anyone who has paid attention when these two teams get together know it wasn't over.

The Thunder trailed 92-85 with 3:23 to and were down to one final possession with 9.0 seconds to go after Dirk Nowitzki's two free throws gave the Mavs the 98-97 lead. Kevin Durant, ice-cold for much of the game, took the inbounds pass from Russell Westbrook, went one-on-one with Shawn Marion and pulled up a few feet behind the free throw line.

The soft jumper looked short, hit the front of the rim, bounced backward and dropped, and the Chesapeake Energy Arena crowd went nuts. In three games this season at OKC against the Mavs, Durant has two buzzer-beaters.

For much of the game this was a battle of sidekicks. Jason Terry hit his first six shots. Russell Westbrook carried the Thunder, who trailed 51-48 at halftime and 73-69 after three.

The Mavs will wonder how this one, another one in OKC, got away down the stretch. Closing time used to be the Mavs' time. Chalk another one up to the Thunder, whose defense down the stretch caused the Mavs to scramble on offense.

Westbrook finished with 28 points, five assists, four rebounds and three steals. Durant, just 10-of-27 from the floor, had 25 points and James Harden finished with 19 -- 10 coming at the free throw line -- and six boards. Serge Ibaka was tremendous with 22 points and five blocks.

Nowitzki finished with 25 and a flurry in the fourth that seemed like it would lift Dallas to a huge win for a team that was just 13-20 on the road in the regular season. But the Mavs had four turnovers in the fourth quarter and Nowitzki had three of them, two in the final 90 seconds. After his fast start, Terry was mostly a non-factor in the second half and finished with 20. Shawn Marion, who could not have been in better position to stop Durant on the final shot, had 17 points, canning three 3s and grabbing eight rebounds.

Jason Kidd, coming off a week's rest set a career playoff high with seven steals. He needed one more.

The Mavs got everything they could have wanted in the first half, save for better shooting from Nowitzki (4-11, 10 points). They dominated both ends of the boards (OKC owned a 45-40 average advantage in four regular season games), held a 7-2 edge in second-chance points, led in fastbreak points and more than doubled OKC's free throw attempts (11-5), perhaps the most important stat to track in this series. In four regular-season games, the free throw edge for OKC was 31-19 a game.

What it means: The Mavs head into the off-day knowing they blew a significant opportunity to pile major pressure onto the shoulders of the young Thunder. That's now three games at OKC this season that Dallas had in its grasp but couldn't close out. Meanwhile, the Thunder know they got away with one and can put the defending champs in an unenviable hole with a win Monday night.

Bold Play of the game: This play will get lost in the remarkable finish, but with 8:25 to go, Ian Mahinmi had the ball under the bucket and position for a slam that would have put Dallas up, 80-73. But Kevin Durant made a huge block and two minutes later, the score was tied at 80-80.

Stat of the game: The Mavs remained winless this season on the road against teams with a winning percentage of .600 or better. They're now 0-13.