Bounce-back mode against the Sixers

Any chance the Mavs look past the 76ers? After all, those Spurs are on tap Thursday.

“Nah. Coach won’t allow that,” Devin Harris said. “We had a pretty intense practice yesterday. It was duly noted that we need to respond. We didn’t play well in Portland and usually after a game like that we respond pretty well.”

The Sixers might only be 2-4, but they boast one of the league’s more under-appreciated talents in Andre Iguodala. The small forward is averaging 20 points, six rebounds and four assists. Avery Johnson called Philly “dangerous.”

“We’ve had the dangerous teams like this and hadn’t fared well,” he said, referring to losses at Atlanta and Portland. “The so-called games that we’ve really been up for like the Clevelands and the Golden States and the Houstons, we’ve fared well in some of those games. We can’t overlook them. It’s a home game for us and we should be in bounce-back mode tonight.”