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 | | Commentary: Kobe Bryant? Well the Mavs preseason just got a WHOLE LOT more interesting...
Posted by paul on Thursday, October 18 @ 14:54:01 EDT (1676 reads)
Topic Mavs News
| The rumors are swirling around the player once known as the Drama Queen. The LAkers star is rumored to want out of LA, and guess which team is the #1 on his list? The Mavs. The Mavs would need to part with Josh Howard, JET and more to do it, but imagine Kobe Bryant in a Mavs uniform on the floor with Dirk...Weirdness abound. BTW, if this deal does go down, the hotel managers around Big D need to talk to all of their female employees regarding their behavior around a potential #8...
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Commentary: Nellie, Oden and Harris...
Posted by paul on Friday, September 14 @ 12:29:57 EDT (2572 reads)
Topic Opinion
| Nellie: Nellie has always been about the money. This is no secret, and now the Warriors are starting to see this. Nellie will back with GS, and if he decides to hang it up, he will have a consulting deal for 5 years after he leaves. Sound familiar?
Oden: Microfracture surgery for the #1 pick in the draft. His rookie season? Well, that MIGHT be the 2008-2009 season now it seems. Portland is now up there with the Celtics as a snake-bit franchise...
Devin Harris: Devin needs to show a consistent jump shot if he is to be the permanent starter at the point. He has the speed, and the ability to finish near the basket. But as long as his jumper is off, teams can negate that. That being said, it is good that he is locked up contract-wise. One less distraction.
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Commentary: Finals thoughts...
Posted by Paul on Friday, June 15 @ 12:00:40 EDT (4199 reads)
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| What a mismatch. To be honest, the Cavs really never had a chance against the Spurs, who were too professional, too determined, and too unshakable to be beaten by anyone (save an MJ lead 1997 Bulls team). So, on to the draft. Which may be interesting for the Mavs who are rumored to be interested in everyone from Grant Hill to Kobe Bryant to Rashard Lewis to Mike James...Wait, never mind the James thing, he is gonna be a Rocket...
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Commentary: Update
Posted by paul on Tuesday, June 05 @ 22:33:35 EDT (3024 reads)
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| Don't expect too much until after the finals. Still messed up in the head...
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Commentary: Can the Mavs make the Warriors play the Mavs style?
Posted by Paul on Tuesday, April 24 @ 11:43:05 EDT (5580 reads)
Topic Opinion
| Big vs. Small has been the talk of the town in the aftermath of the Mav's Game One loss to the Warriors. Did the Mavs play into Nellie's hands in Game One? Can Dampier and Diop make the difference? That remains to be seen on Wednesday, which is looking very much like a must win game. Sure, even if the Mavs drop Wednesday, they have at least two more games, but the next two would be in Oakland where the Warriors are almost as good as the Mavs at home (until Game One). Going in there down 0-2 would be a disaster and a recipe to get swept out of the playoffs as a #1 seed against a #8, and to make this historic season infamous...
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Commentary: Are the Mavs done? Knee-jerking?
Posted by Paul on Monday, April 23 @ 12:17:31 EDT (3597 reads)
Topic Opinion
| If there is one team in the NBA playoffs that can give the Mavs fits, it is the Golden State Warriors. Sometimes, an opponent with no discernible strategy are tougher to beat than a methodical team with superior skills or personnel. I wonder if this is the case with the Mavs vs. the Warriors. GS is a team of excellent improvisers. They play very well in chaos, like a very good pickup team at the local rec-center. They don't need to run a set offense. They make it up as they go along, and they do a damn good job at it. In Game One, do you think those huge three's that Baron Davis hit were drawn up by Nellie? Or that block by Richardson (and his dirty collision under the goal on the much smaller Devin Harris) that lead to another killer three by the Last of the Californian Mohican's? The question at hand though, is "Are the Mavs done?" Not yet. As the Dallas radio talkers are emphasizing, it was only ONE GAME. Sure, it was a tough way to lose, but it was still one game and there will be another one on Wednesday. That being sad, if Game Two is a repeat of Game One, the odds of the Mavs being finished are a hell of a lot better.
As for the local knee-jerking: "Fire Avery!" "Trade Stackhouse!" "Shoot Dirk!" People, calm down. Like I said above, there is another game on Wednesday. But, if the Mavs lose that one, I will probably be in there with the knee-jerkers.
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Commentary: Joey Crawford done? Why not hire him?
Posted by Paul on Wednesday, April 18 @ 12:29:51 EDT (5226 reads)
Topic Opinion
| Joey Crawford, a good ref, but saddled with a bad temper and a huge ego, is suspended indefinitely. The popular opinion is that he is done as an NBA referee. His confrontational style and general attitude towards the NBA authorities (read David Stern) may keep him off of the floor forever. Ok, I can see it. Crawford has always had a bug up his butt. Not sure why, but he did. No one says he is a bad ref, but he sometimes made himself part of the game instead of just enforcing the rules. As I was driving into my day job, the thought occurred to me: Why not hire Joey as a consultant to the Mavs? He knows all of the current officials very well (and makes no secret of his dislike of some of them), he is considered an excellent referee rules-wise. His insight might be valuable in games. Mark Cuban has always said he wants to arm the Mavs with the best information possible. That is why he trends the officiating. It makes a lot of sense, to me at least, if a person who can provide valuable insight into the minds of the majority of officials in the NBA is available to hire, to hire said person. If he is truly done as an NBA official, and if Joey Crawford is bitter about the way Stern treated him, don't you think he would consider a gig working for a man who is a pain in Stern's side. A job that would allow him to spill the beans on some of his former colleagues who he dislikes?
Or is it just me?
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Commentary: Foot off the gas?
Posted by Paul on Monday, April 09 @ 11:47:21 EDT (3059 reads)
Topic Opinion
| Is it now the time for the Mavs to ease off the accelerator until the playoffs? One win locks up the top seed in the West. How many minutes should the Mavs be giving Dirk and Josh's ankles? And Stack's knees? And Damps shoulder? The Clippers are in town, the current candidate for the #8 spot in the West and the Mavs first round opponents. Is it time to give Mo Ager, Jose Barera, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, and Austin Croshere more minutes? How about easing Kevin Willis into the rotation to see how much he has left in the tank? Six more games until the real season begins....
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Commentary: How good are the Mavs truly?
Posted by Paul on Wednesday, January 24 @ 13:00:55 EST (5365 reads)
Topic Opinion
| They are approaching their THIRD double digit win streak. When faced with a tricky Orlando line-up, Avery Johnson turned Dirk Nowitzki into a point-forward and it got the Mavs a win going away on the road in Orlando (where the Mavs are 2-7 after last nights game). Oh, and Dirk flirted with a triple double. Oh, and the Mavs are 35-4 since going 0-4 to start the season. I see all of this, and the high level that the Mavs have been playing, and the fact that the NBA regular season is only half done and the Mavs are five wins short of 40 wins already. I see it and I wonder how good is this team really? How long can they keep this pace up? Are they peaking too soon? Or are they simply that good? I see Avery making heavy use of his bench, not over working the big names. I see JET in a slump, but the Mavs are STILL winning at a torrid rate. Is this Mavs team that good? Are they the LAkers or Bulls, you know, those teams that had 70 wins and won rings easily? Did that step back in the Finals give these Mavs what they needed to take two huge steps forward? I hope so.
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Commentary: LAkers, Jazz, Blazers, Webber, Iverson and Steve Francis?
Posted by paul on Thursday, January 11 @ 00:08:46 EST (4349 reads)
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| What a weird month January has been. Another 12+ game winning streak. A last second loss to the hated LAkers which ended that streak. Big wins against the Spurs, Suns, and Jazz, the best of the West. Now, there is word that Chris Webber, a former All Star, now on the last legs of his career, and not liking his role on a bad Sixers team, is going to be bought out and may look at the Mavs. The NY Knicks may be cutting Steve Francis loose as well. The Mavs could get either of them to strengthen their bench. I don't like Francis, but he is a better option than Anthony Johnson, if he can get his head on straight. I like Webber more, but he is banged up. Despite his banged up-edness, Webber would be a better option off of the bench to back up Dirk than Austin Croshere (no matter what Austin did to the Blazers). Mostly, I just don't want the Spurs or LAkers or Jazz or Suns to pick them up and get more dangerous.
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