Cataclysmic

That, friends, is a high-percentage shot

If you've spent any time watching sports over an entire season or a group of seasons, you realize that shit happens.

Some of it doesn't matter. Some of it does. Maybe it doesn't seem like much initially, but when you rewind an entire season of 162 or 82 games, you realize that that was the moment everything turned up or down.

Last night, we might have seen the cataclysmic event that could signal the miserable end to the Dallas Mavericks season.

For a quarter and a half, I actually thought this could be one of the best looking wins on the season. Then the Mavs quit. Simply quit on the defensive end and the Bucks couldn't miss for two and a half quarters on their way to a true ass whipping of catastrophic proportions, 133-99.

And when I say the Bucks didn't miss, I almost literally mean they didn't miss. Every Buck that took the court hit at least one shot. The bench went 16-25. Jason Terry, Brandon Bass and J.J. Barea went 6-24. The Bucks shot almost 58 percent from the floor.

On the other side, there wasn't one good Mav on the floor. Dirk Nowitzki and Josh Howard were really bad. Jason Terry and Brandon Bass were horrendous. Jason Kidd looked like a zombie with his feet encased in concrete.

I mean, it was bad. Really bad. Cataclysmic. I got a sinking feeling that in April or May, we might look at this game was the lynch pin of a horrible downturn in the season. Don't get me wrong, I hope I'm wrong. I hope this was just a really bad aberration on the road against a hot-shooting team.

But something my ol' gut tells me otherwise.