Dallas ? The Dallas Mavericks were bracing for a Shaq attack. Instead, they broke open Game 2 of the NBA finals with a Stack attack.

In a span of 79 seconds, Jerry Stackhouse single-handedly turned a close game into a rout, putting together a 10-0 run with a rare four-point play and two other four-pointers to close out the first half.

“When you’re feeling good,” he said, “you let it ride.”

Stackhouse’s flurry sent the home crowd into a frenzy, the Miami Heat into the locker room with slumped shoulders – and propelled the Mavericks to a 99-85 victory Sunday night and 2-0 series lead.

“That was big,” coach Avery Johnson said. “We didn’t want to come out and settle for threes, but if they were there, we wanted to take them and take them with confidence.”

Stackhouse finished with 19 points, outscoring the entire Miami bench by himself for the second straight game.

He started slowly, though. He had only two points – on a jumper so long that initially three points went up – until there was 1 minute, 19 seconds left in the first half.

“It was like he wasn’t there at the beginning because he wasn’t getting any looks,” teammate Darrell Armstrong said. “Then, all of a sudden – bam!”

“This game is all about confidence,” said Stackhouse, who helped build his with a half-hour shooting session around 10 p.m. Saturday night. “Seeing the ball go in is huge.”