Jet says he'll be fine

Published Dec. 23, 2009 at 12:45 a.m.

Jason Terry shot 2-for-13 Tuesday night, including a botched drive to the basket with under 10 seconds left that came with Jason Kidd lying on the floor at the other end of the floor after a nasty fall and the Mavericks down 83-81.

Terry was trying to be aggressive and the Mavericks did not call a timeout after collecting the rebound at Portland's end. He can live with that.

"Nine times out of 10, I'm going to make that shot,'' he said. "I'm not second-guessing myself. If we get a timeout, do we score? We don't know. Maybe next time we'll call a timeout. But me, I'm sprinting down there and trying to attack the basket. It was an aggressive play. It didn't go our way tonight. And you feel bad. But it's one game. Let's go on to the next one.''

Coach Rick Carlisle took responsibility for not calling a timeout. That strategy has worked a couple of times this season for them.

But he couldn't have planned on Kidd getting tangled up on the shot by Brandon Roy with 14 seconds left.

Kidd hit the deck hard on his lower back and didn't move for a couple of minutes during a timeout.

The bottom line is that the Mavericks did too many things wrong to win the game. Missing 10 free throws (out of 22) didn't help. And bad shooting was the end result of poor ball movement.

Plus, there was simply no energy in the building.

"We have no idea,'' Terry said when asked why the Mavericks are 10-5 at home but a pristine 10-4 on the road. "But I know we don't have much energy. There's not much energy in the building and as players, we're not doing anything to get them excited. If we don't get it going against this Memphis team (on Saturday), we're going to be looking at another loss, because they play hard and they're going to come at us.''

--Eddie Sefko

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