Killer crew

Take this group: Jason Terry, Jerry Stackhouse, Erick Dampier, Brandon Bass, Trenton Hassell, Juwan Howard and JJ Barea. How’s that for a bench?

“It’s killer,” Devin Harris said. “Are you kidding me?”

That doesn’t count Eddie Jones or Devean George, who could begin full practices in the next few days. Getting a consistent play from the second unit has been a priority this season. Through nine games, Dallas reserves have outscored the opposition seven times.

“I’m trying to establish the bench,” Avery Johnson said. “That’s one of the things I really want to do this year. When a guy goes down, if we can pull somebody from that 11th or 12th man situation and start them and make it work, that’s something that we like to do. I want to keep Jet and Stack and Bass and Damp and Juwan Howard and Tennessee Hassell coming off the bench.”

Terry and Stackhouse have set the tone in establishing an attack mentality.

“We take pride in what we do and that’s being able to come in the game and not having a drop off,” Terry said. “If anything make the intensity go up to another level. We just take pride in it.”