Rick Carlisle said the Mavericks haven’t played Lamar Odom much in the position which he enjoyed his most success while he played the last seven years with the Lakers.

“The truth is, this is something that’s a major factor with Lamar’s situation on our team,” Carlisle said. “He played over 95 percent of his minutes at (power forward with the Lakers).

“We’ve got one of the Top 10 players in the history of the game playing (power forward) here (in Dirk Nowitzki). So (Odom’s) minutes now are coming at (small forward).”

The minutes are not so easy to come by at small forward, either.

“We’ve got (Odom), Dirk, (Shawn) Marion and Vince Carter kind of sharing those forward minutes,” Carlisle said. “So there are just less minutes available.”