Have you ever experienced DeJa Vu in reverse?   I was sitting in the home court comfort of my regular seat at the American Airlines Center.  I had the overwhelming feeling that I had seen it all before.  Tired start.  Inability to adjust.  Terrible shooting.  I had seen it.  I had seen it just 3 days before as the Spurs demolished the Mavs in a game that was non-competitive from start to finish.  This time however we were in the “Mavs Dimension.”  The Mavs dominated start to finish in its 88-67 wrangling of the Spurs.   It was such a beat down on the San Antonino crew that coach Paul Pop0vich threw in the towel about half-way through the 3rd quarter, pulling out most of the starters.  I never thought I would see that in a playoff game.  Popovich stated:

“I didn’t see where we were going to get back in that one,”

Just two days after the Mavericks had no answer for Tony Parker driving the line, J.J. Barea and Eric Dampier answered all night, denied!  Barea had 13 points and seven assists in his first career playoff start.  Dirk Nowitzki found his vaunted fad away shooting touch. He finished with 20 points and seven rebounds, sitting for the rest of the game when the lead hit 30 pints.  Josh Howard had 17 points and eight rebounds.

Just two days after the Mavs shot poorly,   it was the Spurs who shot 32 percent resulting in the fewest points they had ever scored in a playoff game.

From a twitter standpoint the universe was lively and talkative. I found myself getting frustrated with my iPhone Tweetie application. It crashed several times as I tried to post pics through Twit Pic.  So much so that I tweeted “Tweetie sucks” and asked for advice for better application as my frustration rose.  I also added another innovation for Game 3.  As anyone with an iPhone will attest, the camera application leaves much to be desired. Photos taken from more than 20 feet or so away come out looking like you are across a football field. To combat this I installed an iPhone application called Camera Zoom.  It adds a digital zoom function up to 4x to the iPhone camera.   It produced mixed results in in my Game 3 test.  Pixelization was  poor in the long shots as evidenced by the complaints of my Dallas Maverick Dancers photos.  For Game 4 I am considering either taking my laptop or possibly investing in a Netbook.

Did Eric Dampier follow through on his alleged threat of a Tony Parker beat down?   Yes and No.  He never laid a hand on Parker but a beat down was inflicted.  The Mavs as a team put a beat down on the Spurs such as they had never seen in a playoff game.  Time to rest up and get “up-beat” for game 4!

You can see all of my game 3 photos on my Facebook page.