Have the Dallas Mavericks (7-15) leveled up since the team’s last meeting with the Miami Heat (14-7) — or were the last two games merely blips on the radar?

The injury-riddled, try-hard Mavericks pushed a Heat team without the services of Andrew Wiggins, Nikola Jovic and Norman Powell, and with Tyler Herro playing in his first game of the season following ankle surgery in September, to the brink last week but eventually fell 106-102 at the Kaseya Center. So what can this version of the Mavs, with a suddenly emergent rookie point guard in Ryan Nembhard and Cooper Flagg in full bloom, do differently this second time around to get their second straight win over a quality opponent on Wednesday when the Heat come to American Airlines Center?

Let’s dive in.

Continue to cut down turnovers

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