The Dallas Mavericks are currently scoring 116.7 points per 100 possessions, which is on pace to be, and pretty easily, the best offense in NBA history. Rounding out the top five is one of Magic’s Lakers squads, an early MJ Bulls team, a Larry Bird-led Celtics group, and NBASavant.com, the Mavs’ perimeter shooters are getting a ton of space on their jumpers because of their ball movement. On Jameer Nelson’s 89 shots, he’s getting on average 5.5 feet of space (distance from the closest defender). Somehow, Dirk - maybe the best shooting big man ever - is getting 4.7 feet of space on his shots. And his average touch time is 1.92 seconds. If you’re that far away and Dirk makes decisions on passing and shooting that quickly, defenses have literally no chance.

Their schedule does get harder and they’re in the Western Conference, but this team is currently firing on all cylinders. At what pace – be it historic or regresses – the Mavs' offense continues to run will be quite the storyline this year.