Mavs plan to give Seth Curry more minutes at PG

Move over Yogi Ferrell, the younger Curry brother is coming to take your job.

Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said as much Thursday, after he started Seth Curry at the point in Dallas' 97-95 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.

"We've got to look at Curry at point with a really conventional team out there," Carlisle said, according to ESPN's Tim MacMahon. "We're going to give this a look. I don't know how many games it's going to be. It may be the rest of the year, it may not."

Ferrell slid out of the starting lineup with Curry assuming point guard duties and Nerlens Noel getting just his second start as a Mav in the frontcourt. Curry finished with 23 points and four assists.

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"There's a certain aptitude and understanding of the game that goes with being a point guard," Carlisle said. "He's demonstrated those abilities on a lot of occasions, but until we put the ball in his hands and really take a look at it, we're not going to know for sure. Now is the time to do it."

While Ferrell has been a revelation for the Mavericks in his own right, the team sees him as more of a backup, according to MacMahon. Curry has been on a tear of late, averaging close to 17 points a game on 51.7 percent shooting. That said, he sounds comfortable as a playmaker.

"It's just natural to me to make the right play," Curry said. "If I know I'm bringing the ball up the court and I'm going to touch it, then I don't think that I've got to attack, that I've got to score right here. At times when I'm at the two, I'm thinking every time I touch the ball I'm going to look to score. When I'm at the one, I feel like I know I'm going to have the chance to get shots up, so I'm just trying to not force it."

The Mavs are three games out of the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot with 11 to play.