Dallas ? When Dallas’ Big Three is rolling, not even career nights by All-Stars Kevin Garnett and Wally Szczerbiak can slow the Mavericks down.

Dirk Nowitzki, Michael Finley and Steve Nash forced the all-out tempo they love, running and shooting the Mavericks past the Minnesota Timberwolves 122-110 Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in the first-round playoff series.

Detroit's Ben Wallace dunks in the second half of Wednesday's game. Wallace scored seven points and pulled in 15 rebounds in a 96-91 win over Toronto.

Nowitzki had 31 points and 15 rebounds, Finley had 28 points and eight rebounds, and Nash contributed 17 points and 10 assists.

The league’s highest-scoring team also got a boost from its two late-season additions as Nick Van Exel scored 17 points and Raef LaFrentz had 14 points and 12 rebounds.

With so much coming from so many, Dallas was able to easily withstand Garnett’s 31 points and 18 rebounds, and 25 points by Szczerbiak. Both were their best in a playoff game. Chauncey Billups also had 25.

The Mavericks will go into Game 3 on Sunday in Minneapolis looking for the knockout punch. They surely know their work isn’t done, though, after themselves pulling off a comeback from an 0-2 deficit against Utah last season. It was only the sixth time its ever been done in a best-of-five series.

Still, the Timberwolves’ heads must be spinning. They thought they would break through after dominating Dallas in many key statistical areas in Game 1, then came out and played a superb first half, even hitting seven straight shots to open second quarter, yet found themselves down by four.

The Mavericks stretched their lead to 13 midway through the third quarter behind a 19-7, highlight-filled spurt.

Some of the best were Nash spinning around Billups and feeding Eduardo Najera for a layup, and Finley making a steal on one end and a thunderous dunk on the other.

Minnesota called timeout twice during the run to try breaking up Dallas’ momentum and it didn’t work either time, not when the American Airlines Center crowd of 20,084 was as loud as its ever been this inaugural season.

The fourth quarter turned into a coronation. Finley opened with a 20-footer, then Dallas’ next five baskets were 3-pointers, starting with one by Van Exel that put the Mavs over 100 with 9:25 left. Dallas was 11-of-22 on 3-pointers, with Nowitzki going 4-for-5.

The Timberwolves didn’t get to triple digits until 2:52 left on a jumper by Billups, but it only cut a 19-point deficit to 16.

Pistons 96, Raptors 91

Auburn Hills, Mich. (ap) Jerry Stackhouse showed he can still carry the Detroit Pistons with his shot.

Stackhouse scored a playoff career-high 31 points as the Pistons became the first team to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA playoffs with a 96-91 victory over Toronto.

Stackhouse scored 13 points in the third quarter to help the Pistons take the lead for the first time since 1-0, and made three 3-pointers in the final 5:17.

The seventh-year pro said it wasn’t difficult to be aggressive on offense, after evolving into an all-around player this season.

“That’s been my mentality all my life, so it was not hard to revert back to that,” Stackhouse said.

Stackhouse scored nearly 30 points a game during the 2000-01 season, but the Pistons won just 32 games. This season, he averaged 21.4 points, a career-best 5.3 assists and 4.1 rebounds in 35.3 minutes as Detroit won 50 games and the Central Division.

The shooting guard took almost seven fewer shots per game and played nearly five less minutes than last season.

“We’ve asked him to change his game more than any star player I can remember in the last 15 years,” Detroit coach Rick Carlisle said.

Toronto coach Lenny Wilkens said Stackhouse did what great players do down the stretch.

“Just because he’s making other people better doesn’t mean that he should give up his offense. That would be stupid,” Wilkens said. “But it’s using the offense at the right time, and that’s what he’s doing.”

Chris Childs had 22 points and 14 assists for Toronto.