Making the best out of a loss

The Mavericks have a rare four-day break between games and Dirk Nowitzki has mixed feelings about it.

"I always like to keep going," he said. "Once in a awhile a 2-3 day break is not bad, but this is about the longest break I’ve ever had [other than an All-Star break]. It’s really weird going through it but we’ll make the best of it. It’s a little disappointing sitting on that loss for four days that we just had in Sacramento. We felt like we had a good chance to win that game. But maybe that keeps us humble, keeps us working the next couple of days. So maybe it was a good loss for us to know that we’ve got some work to do"

-- Jan Hubbard