Amid all the chaos and upheaval the Dallas Mavericks (33-33) have faced lately remains one constant. The Mavs continue to have the San Antonio Spurs’ (26-37) number, after pulling out a seventh straight win over their in-state rivals on Monday, 133-129, at Frost Bank Center.

Four of eight active Mavericks players scored at least 22 points in the win. Spencer Dinwiddie led Dallas with 28 points to go along with seven rebounds and six assists, Klay Thompson scored 26 points for the second-straight night, Naji Marshall exploded in the fourth quarter for 15 of his 23 points and Kessler Edwards had a career night as his time with the Mavs winds to a close for the season. Everybody had a hand in the much-needed win for this bunch that deserved a break after losing five straight games coming into Monday.

Harrison Barnes turned back the clock to lead all scorers with 29 points for the Spurs in the loss. Keldon Johnson scored 20 of his 28 points in the second half as well. Here are six more stats that tell the tale of the win that throws a little bit of a wrench in the tank treads for the Mavericks.

14: First-quarter points from Devin Vassell

After a slow night (13 points on 4-of-8 shooting in a team-high 33 minutes) at the office in Sunday’s 141-124 track meet loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Spurs’ forward Devin Vassell started hot in Monday’s loss to the visiting Mavericks. Vassell shot 6-of-8 from the field in the first quarter on his way to a game-high 14 points, and he did it by brute-forcing his way to the bucket. Five of his six buckets came on strong drives to the hoop against the shorthanded Dallas defense. The Mavs appeared at times to be wary of getting into foul trouble with just eight players available on the roster.

Vassell’s sixth make was one of just two made San Antonio 3-pointers in the first quarter. That came before the game was even two minutes old and put the Spurs up 7-5. San Antonio took a 34-28 lead into the second quarter.

18: Spencer Dinwiddie first-half scoring

With a roster as thin as NBA rules allow, the scoring had to come from somewhere for the Mavericks. In the first half on Monday, it came from Dinwiddie and the chip on his shoulder. He yelled “And-1” in the general direction of a referee on a reverse put-back inside late in the second and was called for a questionable technical foul. He responded with a contested 3-pointer and a slashing runner in the lane on the next two possessions. He got the foul call on that second drive to make it eight straight Mavericks’ points with 3:03 left before halftime. The ensuing free throw put the Mavs in front 58-57, but San Antonio battled back for a 63-60 lead at the half.

Dinwiddie scored 10 points on 3-of-4 shooting in the second on his way to a game-high 18 points at the break. He came into the game averaging just over seven points per game since the All-Star break.

6: Keldon Johnson consecutive points with Vassell writhing on the ground

In one of the most bizarre sequences of the game, Vassell took a hard fall on his tailbone on a third-quarter drive-and-dish to Johnson, who banged home his first 3-pointer of the game on the other end of the dish to pull the Spurs back in front, 83-82. Dwight Powell obviously fouled Vassell on the drive, but it went uncalled. As Vassell lay writhing on the ground, grabbing at his lower back, Dallas raced back the other way off the made basket for a possession that ended with a throwaway by Cormac Karl “Max” Christie with 6:36 left in the third.

The next time down, Chris Paul found Johnson wide open along the wing for another 3-ball while Vassell remained nearly motionless on the ground in the lane. At no point did the officials stop play, as much of the action on both ends of the floor came on the break. The Spurs pulled ahead 86-80 on those two possessions, during which they easily outplayed the Mavs while facing a 4-against-5 deficit. Johnson scored 15 points in the third to help San Antonio pull back in front briefly, before the Mavs battled back to a 101-101 tie at the end of three.

13: Klay Thompson third-quarter scoring

Dallas battled back to tie the game headed into the fourth quarter behind 13 big points from Thompson in the third. Thompson shot 4-of-6 from the field, including two 3-point makes in the frame. His mid-range jumper with 7:05 left in the third put Dallas ahead 82-80 and both of his 3-pointers earlier in the quarter gave the Mavericks brief leads as well. His 13 third-quarter points gave him 22 for the game entering the fourth. He scored 26 — remember — in Sunday’s 125-116 loss to the Phoenix Suns.

But every time Dallas battled back to grab the lead, they failed to string together stops on the defensive end. San Antonio was shooting 57.8% from the field through three quarters. The Mavs had plenty of guys willing to step up to fill the gaping maw of talent missing from the Dallas roster on the offensive end — they just didn’t play good team defense on the other end for the first three quarters in San Antonio.

22/11: A career night for Kessler Edwards

Edwards was solid all night long for the Mavs in his 35 minutes, and it resulted in a new career-high scoring mark against the Spurs. He scored eight of his 22 points in the first quarter as the rest of the Mavs roster struggled to get going.

Edwards’ tip-in after a missed Naji Marshall 3-pointer early in the fourth put the Mavs up 108-105 with 9:35 left to play. His cutting jam along the baseline on a find from Dinwiddie with just over three minutes left to play put the Mavs up 121-116.

Edwards’ 11 rebounds is a new career-high mark for the fourth-year forward out of Pepperdine as well. After the win over the Spurs, Edwards is only eligible to play five more games in a Dallas uniform this season as a result of being on a two-way deal.

12-of-14: Harrison Barnes shooting from the field

On a night when De’Aaron Fox (14 points on 6-of-13 shooting, 1-of-4 from 3-point range) was nearly nonexistent for the Spurs, Dallas had to survive the best game of the season from Barnes, the former Maverick. Barnes shot 12-of-14 from the field on his way to a season-high 29 points to go along with eight rebounds in the loss.

His only two misses came from beyond the 3-point arc, where he still shot 4-of-6 on the night. He killed the Mavs until the final buzzer, as he banged in his fourth 3-pointer with just two seconds left on the clock to pull San Antonio to within 131-129.

The Mavs also had to survive five fourth-quarter turnovers to pull out the 133-129 win against the Spurs.