In this series, it's a fairly simple equation, and no amount of interior inferiority or Chauncey Billups is going to change it.

If the Mavericks are running, against these guys, they're winning.

Minnesota just doesn't have the depth or variety to keep up in an up-and-down game. Not when the pace zips along at the speeds seen Wednesday night. Not even when Billups throws in another 25 points, in what wound up a 122-110 Game 2 runaway for the hosts.

The evidence can be found in the nether regions of your nearby box score, in the Fast Break Points section. Wednesday's totals: Dallas 27, Minnesota 12.

Numbers that represent a near complete reversal from what happened in Game 1.