The Mavericks had four days without a game. They rested on Monday, then practiced Tuesday through Thursday.
“It’s been good,” Carlisle said. “We had three solid days, and it’s a long stretch. It’s time to play a game.”
Asked about areas of emphasis during the break, he said that “when you get to a stretch where there’s a lot of games and not a lot of practice time, you have slippage in the areas of spacing, cutting and slippage defensively on rotations and assignments.
“This time period [without games] is not about putting a bunch of new things in, it’s getting your foundation blocks and making sure they are solid.”