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DALLAS - With a couple of days off after his best scoring night of the season, Goran Dragic was ready for a fast start against the Dallas Mavericks.Now, Dragic and the Phoenix Suns have to find the energy to sustain it after winning the first of four games in five nights.Im not saying its going to be easy, Dragic said. We have a long bench. Some guys are going to need to step in and do their best.Dragic had 28 points and a season-high 13 assists, Markieff Morris scored 22 and the Suns beat Dallas 118-106 Friday night, ending the Mavericks five-game winning streak.Eric Bledsoe had 19 points for the Suns, who ran out to an 18-point lead in the first quarter and held on after Dallas pulled within five in the fourth.Monta Ellis scored 33 points for the Mavericks, who couldnt match their best winning streak of the season after going 4-0 on an Eastern Conference road swing.The Suns looked fresh from the start, shooting 70 per cent in the first quarter and setting a season high for points in a half while taking a 69-57 lead at the break.Phoenix goes to Houston on Saturday night, takes a day off and then plays at the Los Angeles Clippers and at home against Miami.I think theyre all like 23, 24, 22, Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. I think they should have enough energy. They need to look at the bright side — at least its not practice.Phoenix shot 56 per cent for the game and won for the 26th straight time when shooting at least 50 per cent. The streak dates to the start of the 2013-14 season.Three nights after they set season highs in scoring in the same game against Indiana, Dragic and Bledsoe picked up where they left off. Each had 10 points in the first quarter as the Suns took a 36-18 lead with 3 minutes left in the quarter.We were in such a big hole, then you have to pitch a perfect game, Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. Youve got to make all your shots, you cant turn it over and youve got to keep getting stops. We did none of the above.Dirk Nowitzki got two nights of rest on the Mavericks perfect road trip, but it didnt help the 36-year-old in his 17th season much against the Suns. He scored a season-low 10 points on 2-of-10 shooting.___TIP-INSSuns: G Isaiah Thomas missed his fifth straight game with a right ankle injury. ... Gerald Green had 15 points before fouling out with 2:56 remaining. ... Morris had his fifth double-double of the season with 10 rebounds. ... Dragics season high against Indiana was 34, while Bledsoe scored 27. ... The Suns won in Dallas for just the second time in 13 games.Mavericks: Dallas swept four East teams on the same road trip for the second time in franchise history. The other was a five-game streak in March 2007. ... Tyson Chandler had his 11th double-double of the season with 15 points and 18 rebounds. ... Phoenixs 118 points were a season high against Dallas.GAME-SEALING RUNDallas was down eight early in the fourth when Nowitzki missed badly on a jumper and Dragic took a long rebound the length of the court for a layup. Less than a minute later, he easily dribbled through the defence for a layup that capped a 10-1 run for a 103-89 lead.ELLIS STILL ROLLINGEllis, who had three free throws near the end of regulation in a double-overtime victory at Chicago and hit a buzzer-beating winner in Milwaukee, kept the Mavericks in the game with 18 points in the first half. He had at least 30 points for the third time in five games and the fifth time overall. All five have been in the past 10 games.UP NEXTSuns: At Houston on Saturday.Mavericks: Milwaukee at home on Sunday, the second of two games in five nights against the Bucks. Cheap NHL Jerseys China . -- The Sacramento Kings and guard Jimmer Fredette have completed a buyout of his contract, clearing the way for the former BYU sensation to become a free agent. Cheap Jerseys Online . 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Mickelson could have fired up a private jet to head home after he signed his card, except that the Masters changed its cut policy this year. The top 50 and ties -- up from the top 44 -- made the cut. "Its right on the bubble," he said before the cut was decided. "I dont want to be looking for the leaderboard, but Im always fighting to make the weekend, it seems like." Lefty came up short this time. Mickelson was chipping from about 30 feet away on No. 7 in the opening round when it rolled off the green and led to a triple bogey. And then on Friday, watching him play the par-3 12th hole was like watching a tennis match. His tee shot cleared Raes Creek -- typically the first big concern -- and found the front bunker. His next shot sailed over the green and fell into the side of the back bunker. From there, he blasted through the green and back into the same bunker where his troubles began. He got that out to about 18 feet and two-putted for a triple bogey. Throw in that double boogey on the par-5 15th in the opening round when his wedge spun back off the green and into the water, and its clear why Mickelsons bid to join Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer with a fourth Masters title dissolved rather quickly.dddddddddddd "What happened at 12 was I hit in the front bunker, and there was no sand where I was at," Mickelson said. "I caught the liner of the bunker and bladed it across the green and the same thing happened on the other side. It went back and forth, three bunkers, before I finally got it to stay on grass." Mickelson, who withdrew after two rounds at Torrey Pines because of a sore back, pulled out on the weekend of the Texas Open with a pulled muscle in his oblique. But he said injuries were not the problem this week. What concerned Mickelson was not playing enough going into the Masters. He said he was worried that he might not be sharp, and he was right. "Thats what Ive been nervous about is having a hole like 7 (Thursday), a hole like 12 today," Mickelson said. "... Instead of one sliding, two or three are going away. Thats the kind of stuff when youre playing tournament golf and youre mentally sharp you dont do." Mickelson last missed the cut at Augusta in 1997, the year Woods won by a record 12 shots. He said hell likely watch the rest if tournament on television. "Its an exciting tournament. I probably will," Mickelson said. "Kind of be my punishment." ' ' '