After Chris Paul put up 35 points in game one, Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson said he'd throw more double teams at CP3, in an effort to get the ball out of his hands.

It didn't work.

Paul scored 32 points and tallied a team playoff record 17 assists in game two, as the Hornets beat Dallas by 24.

The Hornets put together their most complete performance of the season Tuesday and went up 2-0 in this best of seven series. But head coach Byron Scott still doesn't think the hornets have accomplished very much.

"We've just held serve,” Scott said. “We did what we need to do to hold on to home court advantage. That's all we've done in this series."

As the series shifts to Dallas, all of the momentum is on the teal team's side, but history is not. The Hornets haven't won in Big D since January 1998, when Tyrone "Mugsy" Bogues ran the point.

“We have a great opportunity to go in there and go up 3-0,” Paul said. “We just got to accept the challenge and play the game."

"We're going back to Dallas,” Johnson said. “We’ll be back in front of our crowd. We’ll look at some things, but we have to have a better effort than what we had Tuesday."

"They're pretty good at home,” Scott said. “I know we haven’t won there in a while. We're expecting to go in there and have two very difficult games."

The Mavs appeared to be dumbfounded throughout Tuesday's game. As Jason Terry put it, they were “outplayed, outfought and outworked.” But they promise to give the Hornets a better challenge next time.

"Hopefully we can pull game three out and put some pressure on them,” Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki said. ”We have what it takes; we just have to get out there and prove it."