Updated: July 23, 2004, 2:57 PM ET

Mavs' top guns not producing results

The high-scoring, high-profile Mavericks are somewhere near the bottom of the standings in the summer league.

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By Terry Brown
NBA Insider
Without Dirk Nowitzki or Michael Finley, the Dallas Mavericks lost to the Denver Nuggets on July 18, 87-79.

The Nuggets didn't have Carmelo Anthony, Marcus Camby, Andre Miller, Nene Hilario or recently signed Kenyon Martin, and still beat a team featuring Marquis Daniels, Josh Howard and Devin Harris. Those three players could very well be, in order, the Mavs' starting shooting guard, sixthman and starting point guard.

Going into last night's games, Harris was No. 1 in the Rocky Mountain Revue at 34 minutes per game. Daniels was No. 2 at 33 minutes per game and Howard was No. 4 at 31 minutes per game. Of the 325 field goal attempts by the Mavs' summer league team, these three have taken 194 of them.

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