Even after what coach Jason Kidd called a low-energy loss at Phoenix, the Dallas Mavericks might be excused for being somewhat distracted at home against winless Utah on Monday night.

Especially as Tuesday night’s quick rematch of the Western Conference finals looms in Minneapolis.

While Luka Doncic struggled for a 15-point performance on 5-of-22 shooting, Dallas couldn’t shake Utah, but Dereck Lively II and Spencer Dinwiddie woke up the Mavericks’ dormant bench score and provided a 110-102 victory for the team. a sold-out crowd at the American Airlines Center.

Dinwiddie, scoreless at halftime, scored 11 points in the third quarter. A put-back dunk by Lively and a 3-pointer by Dinwiddie energized the crowd and gave the Mavericks (2-1) an 82-70 lead entering the fourth quarter.

“Just electric, when my teammates stand up and the fans stand up, the team just gets going,” said Lively, who finished with 14 points, four rebounds and three blocks.

The Mavericks also got a boost from Kyrie Irving (23 points), Klay Thompson (18 points) and PJ Washington, who rebounded from a 5-point, 2-for-10 performance in Phoenix two nights earlier by finishing with 12 points and 11 rebounds. .

“I feel like we’re going in the right direction, but we still got to get better, man,” Irving said. “We are nowhere near our championship habits at this point. We’re in that stage of development and trying not to get too frustrated, but also stay encouraged; stay motivated.”

All the help was needed on a night in which Doncic made just one of his nine three-point attempts, though he did finish with nine rebounds and eight assists.

“He’s human and we saw that tonight,” Kidd said. “But I thought he really leaned on his teammates to be able to create plays and wide open looks.”

The Mavericks can only hope for a better performance against the Timberwolves, and they probably didn’t expect their starters to play such heavy minutes on Monday: 35 from Irving and 33 apiece from Doncic and Washington.

Dallas shot 45%, but limited the Jazz to 37%.

“We’re not shooting the ball well right now, and we’re getting wide open looks that just weren’t falling,” Kidd said. . . ‘It’s early. If we get these opportunities throughout the season, we believe we will become one of the best attacking teams in the league.”

Utah’s presence, coming off a 41-point home loss to Golden State, seemed like it could provide deodorant for Dallas’ early-season inconsistencies.

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The rebuilding Jazz lost by 50 points here last December and entered Monday after seven straight losses in Dallas. Coach Will Hardy admitted he was concerned his young players would overreact to great play from the likes of Doncic, Irving and Thompson.

“It’s a morbid way to approach the game, but when you play against players of this caliber you almost have to decide how you’re going to lose,” Hardy said. “Like, ‘Hey, if we leave the arena tonight and this is the way they beat us, we’re okay with that.’”

Thompson’s early fit was almost seamless. In Dallas’ first two games, he averaged 20.5 points and shot 14 of 29 from the field, including 11 of 22 from 3-point range.

For fellow newcomers Naji Marshall and Quentin Grimes, the transition hasn’t been as smooth, at least offensively. They were brought to Dallas primarily for their defense, but when they shot a combined 3-for-17 and scored six points in the first two games, it raised eyebrows, if not more concern.

Things didn’t get off to a better start on Monday, as Marshall went 0-for-2 in the first half, making both three-pointers, including an airball.

In Saturday’s loss to Phoenix, Dallas’ bench players were outscored 23-9 and shot 4-for-13. Against the Jazz, with Maxi Kleber out with a hamstring injury, Dallas’ bench was only outscored 10-8 in the first half — but all those points came from Lively.

“Look at Naji and Q, those guys have to get used to playing with Luka,” Kidd said. “And unfortunately we didn’t have Luka in preseason.

‘So it will take some time to get used to each other. . . That question is more around Christmas where we are with relationship building.”

Marshall and Grimes each scored four points in the second half, and Marshall added six rebounds for the night to help Dallas stave off the Jazz. The Mavericks finished with 33 bench points.

“Get out and run,” Lively said. “And throw the ball forward and just keep doing what we’re doing. . . I feel like we did a good job of moving the ball around and finding the open shot. Sometimes we were a little too unselfish, but that’s a great team to have.”

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