Friday\u2019s 120-100 loss at the Boston Celtics<\/a> after getting fouled by Neemias Queta on a hard drive to the cup. He grabbed at his left foot before limping off the floor, but came back in almost immediately to make two free throws and played the rest of the game. Flagg\u2019s lateral movement wasn\u2019t quite as sharp after the fall, and he finished with 16 points, eight boards and six assists in the loss.<\/p>\nWe\u2019ll also be watching for injury updates on Marvin Bagley III, who missed Friday\u2019s game in Boston with a neck injury. He has been something of a mid-level revelation in his first seven games with the Mavericks, averaging 13 points and 8.9 rebounds in a reserve role for the most part.<\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes has been one of those guys who consistently gives the Mavs trouble in recent matchups. In the two teams\u2019 earlier meeting this year, Barnes went off for 33 and 11. He poured in 26 and grabbed nine rebounds against the Mavs last April.<\/p>\n
Barnes is going to get his on Sunday, I suspect, but I want to turn your attention to an even more random pick to click. There always a random Mavs killer in the waiting, it seems, and the Raptors\u2019 ball movement makes this kind of breakout night even more likely than the average bear.<\/p>\n
To that end, watch out for Jakob Poeltl on Sunday. The Mavs have a tough time holding teams to one shot per possession, and the seven-footer is the kind of center that could feast on the offensive glass against Daniel Gafford. Gafford was held out of Friday\u2019s game in Boston with an ankle injury, so if he\u2019s held out again, and Dallas\u2019 frontcourt is as thin as it was against the Celtics, Poeltl could be the latest middle management type the Mavericks make look like an All-Star.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks and the Raptors tip off from Scotiabank Arena at 5 p.m. CST on Sunday. The game will be televised locally on KFAA Channel 29 and on regional sister stations throughout the Mavs\u2019 viewership area. It will stream on MavsTV and on NBA League Pass where available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks (21-42) have lost 16 of their last 18. The Toronto Raptors (35-27) have dropped four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2663],"class_list":{"0":"post-195683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-mavericks-game-coverage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}