DALLAS -- Wesley Matthews has taken greater responsibility with Dirk Nowitzki out of the Dallas Mavericks lineup much of this season.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.Manuel Rodriguez Jersey Cubs . 8 Kansas to a 64-63 win over Texas Tech on Tuesday night. The freshman from Vaughan, Ont. David Justice Jersey Braves . 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"Demp (Ryan Dempster) came out before he went to the bullpen and was just yelling that they lost.Top-order batsman Sam Curtis and swing bowler Holly Huddleston have earned recalls in New Zealand Womens squad for the seven-ODI tour of South Africa in October. Middle-order batsman Sara McGlashan, however, was left out of the 14-player squad.Curtis has played just seven ODIs, the last of which was in September 2014, but had a decent domestic one-day season for Auckland, with a tally of 289 runs from 10 innings with three half-centuries, including an unbeaten 65 in the final they won against Wellington. Huddleston took 5 for 36 against West Indies in her second ODI, but played only four more thereafter. Like Curtis, her last ODI was in September 2014, but she has since done well in domestic cricket. In the recent NatWest Womens T20 Cup in England, she took six wickets in five matches, at an average of 18.17.Coach Haidee Tiffen said both players had been selected due to their strong work ethic in the off season.Theyve worked hard for their recalls, Tiffen said. Sam wasnt selected at all last summer but offers us useful top-order batting and spin-bowling value, and Hollys swing bowling is something we see as beneficial to our goal of hitting the ground running at next years Womens Cricket World Cup in England.Tiffen also confirmed that as they seek to build a side with an eye on next years World Cup, the likess of McGlashan and offspinner Anna Peterson unfortunately missed out.ddddddddddddWith the World Cup on the horizon, weve selected both the touring squad and those to be offered annual contracts on the basis of our ODI performance in particular, and in this regard, some players have clearly been unlucky, Tiffen said.All 14 players in the squad were among those offered new, enhanced contracts for the 2016-17 season, under a new Memorandum of Understanding between New Zealand Cricket and the New Zealand Cricket Players Association. A fifteenth player, Liz Perry, was also offered a new contract but was not included in the touring squad due to a shoulder inury. Neither McGlashan nor Peterson were offered the new contracts.New Zealand will have a pre-tour camp in Tauranga next month, before departing for South Africa, where the first ODI takes place on October 8 in Kimberley. The first three of the seven ODIs will carry ICC Womens Championship points.New Zealand Women squad: Suzie Bates (capt), Erin Bermingham, Sam Curtis, Sophie Devine, Holly Huddleston, Leigh Kasperek, Katey Martin, Thamsyn Newton, Morna Nielsen, Katie Perkins, Rachel Priest, Hannah Rowe, Amy Satterthwaite, Lea Tahuhu ' ' '
