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More energy was not enough. More effort was not enough. Dirk Nowitzki outscoring his Game 4 production in the first 10 minutes Thursday night was not enough. A 13-point lead after the first quarter was not enough.

By the middle of the third quarter, that lead had vanished. With a little more than three minutes to play in the period, the resilient Phoenix Suns had grabbed a seven-point lead. In a series that has become increasingly about "body language," at least according to the players, the Mavericks' wasn't looking good.

Then came the fourth quarter. Then came Nowitzki, the MVP version.

Nowitzki scored 15 consecutive points in the quarter, 22 in all, to finish with a playoff career-high 50 points. He rallied the Mavericks past the stubborn Suns for a 117-101 Game 5 victory that gives Dallas a 3-2 lead going into Saturday's Game 6.

Phoenix was led by Tim Thomas with 26 points, but Thomas made a costly mistake. He got into it with Nowitzki in the second quarter and appeared to call the Mavericks forward a name that would question his manhood.

Nowitzki, who scored 17 points in the first two quarters, would answer that challenge with a 33-point second half.

"Dirk was just unbelievable," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said. "We couldn't stop him."

There wasn't much question that Nowitzki was going to answer the call in Game 5. His 11-point performance in Game 4 bordered on the inexplicable. It ended a streak of 42 games in which he had scored 20 points. He barely got halfway there in Game 4 as the Mavericks suffered their first blowout loss of the playoffs, falling by 20 points in Phoenix.

He attacked the basket immediately in Game 5. Nowitzki did not achieve immediate results.

He missed his first two shots in the lane. He was called for a travel on his next attempt to get to the rim. Just wanting to impose his will on the game was not enough.

But a left-handed shot on a baseline drive got him going, and Nowitzki barely stopped. The 3-point shot returned to his arsenal. Long overdue.

No 7-footer ever has shot 3-pointers with Nowitzki's accuracy. He made two in the game's first six minutes and had 12 points (one more than he scored in Game 4) with 2:30 left in the opening quarter.

Nowitzki made five of six 3-point shots for the night. His final 3-point attempt found the mark with 1:40 to play. Nowitzki put one finger in the air as he raised his total to 50 points.

"It was pretty special what he did," coach Avery Johnson said. "He was really disappointed in the last game."

Nowitzki suffered through one cold stretch but came out of it in a big way in the second half. He made 14 of 26 shots from the floor and was deadly from the foul line, hitting 17 of 18 attempts.

Getting to the foul line has been just one indication of a changed Nowitzki this postseason. He is averaging 10 free throw attempts per game. His 12.1 rebounds per game leads the NBA playoffs.

Nowitzki played with a fire in his eye the entire night, exhorting his teammates and exchanging words with Thomas that earned both technical fouls.

As invisible as he was in Game 4, Nowitzki was invincible in Game 5.

He left the game with just over a minute to play, but the American Airlines Center crowd stood and chanted "MVP, MVP" anyway.

He again showed why he deserved the honor more than Nash in Game 5. Nash had 20 points and 11 assists, but he was only 5-for-17 from the field and struggled at the defensive end.

Nowitzki needs to offer one more night of proof that he was the deserving MVP in order to lead the Mavericks to the NBA Finals that have eluded them for their first 25 years. With a 3-2 series lead in the Western Conference finals, this franchise is closer that it has ever been.

Hat der g-funkdafied viel Ahnung von Rap?Nein definitiv nicht! Ist er ein hurenbastard?Keine Frage!

ich lutsch slims pimmel

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und das noch nach der schwachen Partie von Dirk in Spiel 4... dass der mit so einer Leistung zurückkommt hätte ich nicht gedacht. Hat damit das vorherige Spiel zehn mal wieder gut gemacht und dem Kanadier gezeigt wer der wahre MVP ist

Ich tipp mal beide Serien gehen mit 4:2 aus und ich bekomm mein Finale