All good things must come to an end, and the Warriors’ four-game winning streak did just that in a wildly entertaining 141-121 home loss to the Dallas Mavericks.

The Warriors’ previous matchup with Dallas was about as one-sided as an NBA game will ever get. The Dubs went into American Airlines Center and were run out of the gym basically as soon as the game started. Luka Dončić did basically whatever he wanted, posting a 35-point triple-double in just 25 minutes of action. The whole game, the Mavericks couldn’t miss. The Warriors, playing with just eight active players, couldn’t score or defend as the Mavericks did whatever they wanted en route to a 142-94 beatdown of Golden State.

From the jump on Saturday evening, it was clear that the much healthier Warriors wouldn’t let that happen again. Their offensive work was brilliant. Unfortunately for them, the Mavericks’ was as well. Both teams moved the ball well, avoided turnovers and shot lights out. The defensive effort and execution actually wasn’t bad by either team. The offenses were just on fire in the first half. The Mavericks shot 54.3% from the field and 57.7% from three. For the Warriors, those numbers were 60.4% and 56.5%. After one quarter, the score was tied at 41. For context, the Warriors scored 43 points in the entire first half of the previous night’s game against the Suns.

In the second quarter, the offense didn’t let up. Both teams remained red hot as the Warriors led 74-72 at the halftime break. But the Mavericks are one of the best offensive teams in the NBA. The Warriors are not. So it’s not surprising that the Mavericks were able to maintain their shooting clip while the Warriors weren’t. What is somewhat surprising, however, is how dramatically it happened. In the first half, the Warriors had played decent defense while Dončić and company made tough shots. In the second half, the Warriors defense didn’t cover and rotate nearly as well. To be fair, it’s unclear how much the Warriors could have done to prevent the Dallas onslaught. The bigger reason for the loss was what happened to the Warrior offense. Over the past few seasons, the defense would have bad nights from time to time, but the offense could go shot for shot with any team in the league. This year’s offense doesn’t have the talent to do that for 48 minutes. In the third quarter, the shots that were falling in the first half started missing. The Warriors went crazy from three-point range in the opening half — but ultimately, they are not a three-point shooting team. But they kept firing away and taking jumpers and the inevitable regression to the mean came swiftly and aggressively. In the third quarter, they shot just 32% from the field and 30% from three while Dallas posted marks of 68.2% and 58.3% respectively.

After three quarters, the Warriors had dropped nearly 100 points — respectable, even good by NBA standards. Yet they trailed by 19 and failed to make a dent in a fourth quarter consisting mostly of garbage time.

Amidst the craziness of the first half, several players rose up in particular. Marquese Chriss demonstrated his inside scoring prowess by posting 16 points which included several alley-oop dunks. Damion Lee continued his recent streak of hot performances with 18 points and some more terrific rebounding work, snagging 12 boards for his fifth straight game with at least seven. And most notably, D’Angelo Russell went off. He scored 18 points in the game’s first seven minutes and continued to hit wildly entertaining shots with incredibly high levels of difficulty. In total, he scored 30 points in the first two quarters, a career best for one half, and finished with 35 for the game. And more importantly, he avoided any major injuries after a scary second-half collision with Dončić that led the training staff to bring out a stretcher. But he walked off under his own power with a shoulder contusion and eventually returned to the action.

This game highlighted one of the Warriors’ fatal flaws: they don’t have the offensive ability to match up with any team having a hot night. They have to rely on defense or breaks from a cold-shooting team, and they didn’t get nearly enough of either on Saturday.