Saturday night in Dallas with the return of JJ Barea and Corey Brewer-2 cogs in the 2010-2011 title year-proved to be another disappointing night for Rick Carlisle's crew. With Jose Calderon in street clothes Gal Mekel was pressed into starter duty. Mekel would have six points in 26 minutes of play along with seven assists.
In the second half Tony Rono was a perfect 12 for 12 as the Cowboys would respond with 24 unanswered points before Oakland mustered up a field goal. Dallas would engineer a ten play 87 yard drive resulting in a Dez Bryant 4 yard pass (against the former Cowboy Mike Jenkins) to knot things things up at 21.You could see and feel the momentum continue to turn in Dallas' favor.
With the exception of 1975 and 1977 in St. Louis (two losses to AFC East teams with the Bills 32-14 and Dolphins 55-14) Dallas has featured the 3:30 game.
For TCU (Big 12 2-6, 4-7) the bigger question is going to be how you try to contain the prowess of a Bryce Perry (26 TD passes and a 335 yard per game average) and Antwan Goodley (58 catches, 12 touchdowns and 1,183 yards). On the ground the Bears team have a rushing tandem that averaged over 60 points a game prior to Oklahoma State in Lache Seatrunk (888 yards, 11 TD's) and Shock Linwood (841 yards, 8 TD's).
Dallas got as close as 89-85 with strong defense from DeJuan Blair and a key shot from Gal Mekel before the next issue presented itself: Nate Robinson with his dagger threes which ended any hopes Dallas had in a 1100-96 defeat. Dirk would finish with 18 points. It wasn't nearly enough to offset the 22 points J Hickson contributed for the Denver win (7-6) while the team shot 55%.
Saturday, November 30, 2013 at 10:51PM