Dalembert gets benched for missing shootaround

Samuel Dalembert missed the Mavericks' shootaround Monday morning when he overslept and Rick Carlisle used both DeJuan Blair as the starter and Bernard James as the backup center before putting Dalembert in the game at the start of the second quarter.

"I'm very disappointed at myself," Dalembert said. "I let my teammates down. I don't have an excuse. And it shouldn't have happened."

Said Carlisle: "Sam missed shootaround this morning because he overslept. So the two guys that were there got the first two rotations."