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DALLAS -- Wesley Matthews has taken greater responsibility with Dirk Nowitzki out of the Dallas Mavericks lineup much of this season. Wholesale Jets Jerseys .Matthews scored 20 of his 26 points in the second half of Dallas 107-82 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night.Matthews was the star of the game, obviously, Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. He is our leader right now with Dirk out. He really sets the tone for us in the locker room and on the floor. He is just the vocal guy.Matthews has accepted the expanded role as Nowitzki has been limited to five games by a strained right Achilles tendon.I feel like thats one of the reasons why they brought me over here (from Portland). Through this rough patch, injuries and everything, everybody had to mold together. Its almost like we had to restructure ourselves. I think everybody has embraced that.Harrison Barnes scored 17 of his 22 points in the first half to help Dallas improve to 4-15.Chicago was coming off a 111-105 victory over defending champion Cleveland on Friday night.Jimmy Butler led Chicago with 26 points.I dont think anybody played well tonight, Butler said. We didnt play with energy on either end of the floor.Barnes powered the Mavericks to a 17-point first-quarter lead with eight points.They came out and threw the first punch and kept throwing, and we could just never recover from that, Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg said. We did expend a lot of energy (Friday) night.Dwight Powell (17) and rookie Dorian Finney-Smith (11) had career highs in scoring, and Deron Williams had a season-high 15 assists with only one turnover.The biggest thing was we were even (43-43) on the boards, Carlisle said. Andrew Bogut had a game-high 11 rebounds, and Powell grabbed eight.Neither team scored in the first 2:15, but Dallas went on a 7-0 run over the next 1:20. The Mavericks led 23-6 with 3:17 left. The quarter ended with Dallas leading 29-18. Bogut had six points and eight rebounds.Chicago pulled within six points three times in the second quarter, but Dallas finished the first half with a 57-45 lead. In the third quarter, Matthews had 14 points, and the Maverick led by as many as 21 points.TIP-INSBulls: C Robin Lopez has a career-high 11 straight games with 10 or more points. He scored 15 against Dallas. ... F Jimmy Butler has reached 20 points in 17 of 19 games. He scored on a drive with 1:00 left in the third quarter, but was charged with a technical foul for arguing that he had been fouled.Mavericks: G Wesley Matthews made 7 of 11 3-point attempts. ... C Andrew Bogut fouled out, but had 11 rebounds and a season-high eight points. ... The Mavericks 29 first-quarter points were a season high. ... Their largest margin of victory before Saturday was 12 points.WADE RESTSBulls G Dwyane Wade missed his second game this season, both to rest. He stayed in Chicago after Fridays win over Cleveland. Their flight landed in the DFW Metroplex at 2:30 a.m. for the second game in a stretch of four games in five days. Nikola Mirotic started in Wades place and was scoreless in 13 minutes played.NOWITZKI INDEFINITEThe Mavericks said that they no longer will keep a timetable for when F Dirk Nowitzki (strained right Achilles tendon) would play. Instead, his return will be listed as indefinite. He has played in only five games this season.We said Im still a few games away, but luck can change, so I just have to go day by day, Nowitzki said.At this stage in my career, I dont move well anyways, so if Im out there at like 80, 90 percent, I dont think Im a big help, so I want to make sure my bodys responding the right way and well go from there.UP NEXTBulls: Return home to play Portland on Monday night. Chicago won at Portland 113-88 behind Jimmy Butlers 27 points on Nov. 15.Mavericks: Host Charlotte on Monday night in the second game of a four-game homestand. Dallas lost to the Hornets on the road Thursday night. Jeremy Clark Jersey . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite. DeAngelo Henderson Sr. Jersey . - The Oakland Raiders re-signed offensive lineman Khalif Barnes on Friday. http://www.cheapnewyorkjetsjerseysauthen...j-mosley-jersey . Catch all the action on TSN2 at 11pm et/8pm pt. The nine-time Big 12 champion Jayhawks are positioning themselves for another title, as they have run out to a flawless 6-0 mark in conference play thus far. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Brandon Marshall was downright frustrated -- by another tough loss and increasing questions about his struggling quarterback.Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three more interceptions, giving him nine in the last two games, and the New York Jets couldnt get much going on offense in a 27-17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.I am shocked, a dejected Marshall said. I expect more out of our offense. Every year is different. Its a little deflating, man. You think youre really close and right when you think its going to be easy, whether in sport or life, you get slapped in the face and humbled. Its disappointing, but thats just the story of life. Its never easy.This is hard, football is hard. Its not for the weary.With all the turnovers the past few weeks, its easy to point fingers at the quarterback first.Marshall, however, insisted that his confidence in Fitzpatrick has not wavered, even with the Jets 1/3 and staring at the season possibly spiraling with road games up next against Pittsburgh and Arizona.Im standing in the ship with him, Marshall said of Fitzpatrick. Obviously, right now, were all looking each other in the eyes and holding each other accountable and pushing each other. At the end of the day, Im going down with the ship with him. I dont like how any of us are playing. Him, myself, all the starters. Weve got to pick it up and play better.Marshall, who had four catches for 89 yards and his first touchdown of the season , bristled when he was asked if the Jets need to assess the quarterback spot. New York also has former starter Geno Smith on the roster, along with 2015 fourth-rounder Bryce Petty, whos recovering from a shoulder injury, and Christian Hackenberg, the Jets second-rounder this year.I am. Going down. In a boat. With Ryan Fitzpatrick. OK? You got it? said Marshall, measuring his words. So can you not ask me any more questions about that? I am. Going down. In a boat. With No. 14.Fitzpatrick was re-signed just before training camp opened in July to a one-year, $12 million deal after a contract stalemate between the quarterback and the team dragged for months.While he threw 31 touchdown passes to set a franchise reccord last season, critics of Fitzpatrick also pointed to his up-and-down tendencies -- and the fact he has never made it to the postseason in his 11-plus NFL seasons. MyQuon Stout Jersey. He and the Jets offense will need to get better in a hurry if they have any plans on playing in the playoffs this season.Im still confident in our guys, and Im still confident in our offense and the things that we can do, Fitzpatrick said. We just didnt put it together in the second half, and that was unfortunate because we did have a little bit of momentum in the first half.The Jets trailed 14-10 after two quarters, helped by Fitzpatricks 17-yard TD toss to Marshall with 13 seconds left. They had 229 yards of total offense at halftime, but gained just 76 the rest of the game.I think were out of sync right now, said Matt Forte, who was held to just 27 yards on 14 carries. Were not really hitting on all cylinders, so to speak.Fitzpatrick threw three fourth-quarter interceptions against the Seahawks. The second came on a throw intended for Robby Anderson that was picked off by Earl Thomas and led to a 53-yard field goal by Steven Hauschka that put Seattle up 27-10.On the next drive, Fitzpatrick was sacked by Cliff Avril and fumbled, but rookie wide receiver Charone Peake picked up the ball and ran it in for a 42-yard touchdown on a fluke play that cut the Jets deficit to 27-17.New York got the ball back with 1:41 and had a chance to get closer, but the comeback attempt was short-circuited when Fitzpatricks deep pass intended for Marshall was intercepted by Richard Sherman, who had two on the day.I dont worry about questions about his play, Bowles said of Fitzpatrick. I just worry about turnovers. He knows he cant have turnovers. Some of them are unfortunate and not the quarterbacks fault, but nevertheless, the quarterback runs the offense, so he cant turn the ball over.Then, Bowles was asked about his confidence level in Fitzpatrick.No different, the coach said, than when the season started.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL Wholeslae Jerseys NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale NBA Jerseys Cheap NHL Jerseys Cheap MLB Jerseys Wholesale Soccer Jerseys Cheap College Jerseys Cheap Football Jerseys Cheap Basketball Jerseys Cheap Baseball Jerseys ' ' '