<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>DALLAS (AP) -- Avery Johnson has grown tired of hearing how close the Dallas Mavericks came to winning an NBA title.The Mavericks' coach is ready for the next mission: learning from, and then forgetting about the team's collapse in the NBA finals. Miami won four straight games after falling into a 2-0 hole and trailing by 13 points midway through the fourth quarter of Game 3."That's all I heard all summer: 'Almost, coach,'" Johnson said Monday on the eve of the team's first training camp as the defending Western Conference champion. "How do we go from almost to all? If they are telling you almost, you probably didn't get what you are looking for."The Mavericks said they aren't suffering a hangover from a devastating Game 6, when they blew a 14-point first-half lead and opened the second half by missing 14 of 16 shots. But some of those thoughts clearly linger.</div>Click the link below to read the entire article:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BKN...EMPLATE=DEFAULT
