the most significant happenings of the third quarter

devin harris starts hot, delivering a powerful drive-and-dunk off a cross-over dribble and burying a 3.

jon barry is very impressed by avery johnson's teaching skills, as they pertain to devin harris. hmmmm .... four years in the league and devin is still developing ... and still looking back at the bench in every half-court situation.

with 4:15 left, rip hamilton almost has as many field goals (8) as the rest of the pistons' starters (9).

the mavs continue to shoot well -- they hit 6-of-8 3's in the quarter -- with few transition buckets and few FTs (three makes for the whole game).

-- garza, mavs lite