The Dallas Mavericks finally picked up their first win of the season, dispatching the Toronto Raptors 139-129 Sunday night in Dallas. The Mavericks move to 1-3 and released some clear pent up frustrations on Raptors roster that truly felt defenseless against everything the Mavericks threw at them.

It didn’t feel like that early on, as Toronto scored the first four points of the game, and the teams continually traded buckets for the remainder of the first quarter and first half. Dallas had 11 first half turnovers, which fueled Toronto in transition and on the secondary break — it was hard for the Mavericks big defense to set itself up in the halfcourt when the Mavericks offense was continually putting the Raptors at light speed.

Dallas trailed 66-64 at halftime, and the second half didn’t

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