So the Dallas Mavericks lost a tight one again, and the day after Kobe took ‘em down, Deron Williams does the same on the strength of a 20 assist/17 point day at the office (and the Mavs are in ‘be-careful’ area, dropping to 7th in the Western Conference). But the lowpoint of the game was Dirk Nowitzki’s flagrant foul on Andrei Kirilenko.