Mavs turned up the heat on defensive end of court

The Dallas Mavericks went into this season hellbent on being a solid defensive team. But the lightbulb moment when that eventually happened didn’t occur until Feb. 8 when two trades brought the Mavs center Daniel Gafford and forward P.J. Washington.
Gafford and Washington have been the defensive engines the Mavs have used to steer themselves within one win of reaching the Western Conference Finals for the second time in three seasons. Since the two trades, for the most part the Mavs have b