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How the West Was Won

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On the count of three, DRAW!!!

[Solid D]

People are saying the Spurs have to stop Dirk...and they do....but watch out for this guy!!!

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Early start time, 7:00 PM Central, (8:00 Eastern) on ESPN2 and KENS

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Parker feeds low post, TD short hook in the lane, yes.

Miss by Dirk, Rasho miss leaner in lane.

Stack uptempo jumper, good. Rasho misses 15 footer, so does Bowen, Stackhouse left wing jumper from 20 good.

Bowen from corner. 2 good.

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Finley good.

Parker misses long three from rt wing. Hustle rebound by Gino in lane, 7 foot fader good. 6-7

Rasho bothers Henderson's shot (Henderson playing C instead of Dampier - injured)

Tim makes 1 of 2 FTs.

Finley long jumper, good 7-9.

Bowen misses left corner three, Finley long jumper good. 7-11

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Bowen fouled, makes 1 of 2 FTs - 8-11.

Manu forces steal, Bowen loses loose ball picked up by Manu, layup Manu!!! 10-11.

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Jason Terry dribbles baseline, nothing there. back out while other 4 watch, 21 foot jumper swish, by Terry. 10-13 Timeout Spurs.

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Manu posts up misses, Bowen rebounds loose ball - back to Gino for threeeee!!!

13-13

Airball o/b for Dallas. Horry misses reverse layup. Finley long jumper over Bowen from top swish.

Tim banker from left logo, Yes! 15 - 15

Dallas misses , Duncan short hook good! 17-15.

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Timeout. Duncan out 3:42, Rasho back in for Tim. Standard substitution. with 3 left in 1st.

Turnover off dribble by Bowen.

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AJ giving some strategy in Mavs huddle...doing some of the talking.

Barry in for Gino.
Rasho, Horry, Bowen, Barry, TP

Nowitzki misses long corner shot.

Bowen upfakes Dirk and draws shooting foul. 2 FTs 19-15

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Bradley in the game, misses leaner in lane short

Bowen misses left corner three. Calvin Booth turnaround jumper from baseline. good.

Horry gets ball deep under basket and forces it up hard and makes layup! 21-17.

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Dirk drives into Horry and he looks like he is groggy and lays on floor. Hurt Head?

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Timeout. Horry has hard time getting up and is just standing there. He may have had his bell rung pretty strong, by the looks of it. Timeout. More attention needed.

[Manu20]

I think he hit Rasho with his back of his head.

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Stackhouse makes tough turnaround baseline jumper 21-19.

Horry getting treated in locker room. Gino fakes three and drives with time running out in 1st, misses but Rasho rebounds and forgets clock is running out. Doesn't take it back up but dribbles out for a better look. :( :( :( Quarter ends.

[ChumpDumper]

I don't think Rasho was near the impact, though he fell over both after they went down.

[Solid D]

Sorry, I had to step away.

Beno, Manu, Barry, Malik, Tim start 2nd.

Gino dribble drive layup. Malik in lane yes. 28.

Dirk transition wide open 3 swish.

Udrih blocks Dirk's fadeaway!!!

TO Beno, Dallas misses layup.

Feed to Malik in traffic taken away.

Finley jumper good. tied 28-28.

Duncan goes baseline and dunks!!!!30-28

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Stack hits jumper good.

Udrih gets save away from Finley, layup good by Udrih!34-30

Miss by Dallas. Bowen gets missed shot for easy layup! 36-30.

6:01 left in 2nd Timeout.

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Devin in now for Gino. Rose good footwork after feed from Beno for layup, in traffic twisting. 38-30.

Spurs foul. Timeout.

[1Parker1]

On a side note, Indiana ahead of the Suns by like 10 in the 4th Q :) GO PACERS!

[milkyway21]

People are saying the Spurs have to stop Dirk...and they do....but watch out for this guy!!!

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Early start time, 7:00 PM Central, (8:00 Eastern) on ESPN2 and KENS...made that happen...so far dirk only 3 pts. :spin

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DIrk has 3 point so far. Henderson makes 1 of 2 FTs.

Beno starts into lane, stops and pops, 12 footer, yes!

Malik feeds Rasho off high-low and just a bit high and O/B. :(

Dirk makes short banker from left. 40-33

[1Parker1]

Damn Malik is a turnover machine tonight, he's played six minutes and has 3 TO's !

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Another TO by Malik. TP back in for Beno with 4:10 left in half.

Dirk off switch in lane over TP, good and 1. FT good 40-36

[1Parker1]

Great, as soon as you guys pointed out how Dirk has only 3 pts, he goes on a shooting spree and now has 10 pts :(

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Horry back in. That's good news!

Loose ball picked up by TP, to Devin mid-lane leaner, swish!

Dirk into lane, miss over Tim, but tipped back in by Dirk.

TO by Tim, Missed brick by Booth from 14.

Parker fouled by Terry splitting double team. Timeout. 42-38.

[Solid D]

Great, as soon as you guys pointed out how Dirk has only 3 pts, he goes on a shooting spree and now has 10 pts :(

:rollin I was just thinking the same thing. :pctoss

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2:10 left in 2nd.
Lineups
Tim, Horry, Devin, Manu, TP
Bradley, Booth, Dirk, Finley, Terry

Stephen A. Smith bagging on Rasho. It's been somewhat deserved, though.

Tim fouled. 2 FTs good 44-38.

Bradley leaning 5 footer over Tim good.

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TP misses on drive.

Dirk posting up Devin. TO on entry.

Tim hits bank shot leaner from left mid-block area. 46-40.

TO Tim on pass to TP.

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Clock running down to 10 sec. and Dirk takes it to the hole over Devin but Horry goaltends. 46-42.

Devin gets the ball immediately as designated scorer. Dribble penetrates and gets fouled in lane with 3.7 left. 2 FTs goood. 48-42. Timeout Dallas.

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Spurs Full court press but very loose.

Dirk swishes from halfcourt at horn!!!

48-45 Spurs at the half.

I'm not sure why the Spurs bothered to press because it was a psuedo press in actuality.

[milkyway21]

Spurs Full court press but very loose.

Dirk swishes from halfcourt at horn!!!

48-45 Spurs at the half.

I'm not sure why the Spurs bothered to press because it was a psuedo press in actuality.damn! if the Spurs going to lose this game, it will be played over & over again tonight!!! We don't need another T-mac, Ok? :oops

[Solid D]

The biggest problem in closing out the quarter was the mismatch of Dirk defended by Devin Brown. Dallas went big and played Dirk at the 3.

Devin played way too soft on him - even on the last shot at the half.

[milkyway21]

i want Barry to show some 3s in the 2nd half. Or Bowen. We could lose on this one...too many trunovers and 3pts only for TP?

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Start 3rd.
Tim, Horry, Bowen, Manu, TP start 2nd (Rasho sits)

Horry from top of arc, THREE!!!

Terry around screen, 16 foot leaner, good.

Duncan misses bank from left, reb. Horry, Manu in corner fakes drive, shoots corner 3 !!!! 54-47.

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Dirk misses, Tim for the alley oop, can't quite conrol.

Horry misses jumper, MAvs reb. but Manu strips.

Tony tries to feed Tim- loose ball but TP gets and lays it in. Timeout.

56-47 9:04 left in 3rd.

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No subs yet. Finley moving underneath gets pass and fouled going up by Tim. 2 FTs good.

Tim gets ball pulled away, Dirk misses, fast break they call foul on TP, didn't see that :(

Terry hook shot good. 56-51.

[milkyway21]

TP/TD 3 fouls? :depressed

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TP drives and dishes to Horry, Horry 17 footer no good.

Terry misses in traffic after ball bounces all over the place.

TP drives uptempo and draws foul from Booth, yes and 1. FT good. 59-51.

Dirk misses on the baseline in traffic.

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Tim gets ball after screen/roll on logo. Fouled by Dirk.

Duncan gets feed in lane, overhand rt. good!

Jason takes it to hole and makes circus falling down hope shot.

Duncan gets loose TP pass, bankshot layin. good. 63-53

Long 3 missed Reb Dirk Finley good. 65-55

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4:50 still no subst.

Manu from 3 on left wing. no good. Stack o/b

Now Barry comes in for Manu with 4:34 left. Rasho in for Tim.

Horry misses fall away, Henderson misses.

TP misses fadeaway drive. Sloppy play by dirk on drive o/b but Mavs ball. :(

Dirk gets ball and goes hard to hoop again and draws foul this time. 1 FT good, timeout Spurs. Adjustment time I guess, since Dallas is obviously going hard to the basket on almost every trip. Esp. Terry, Stack and Dirk.

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2nd FT good by Dirk 63-57.

Parker streaking gets feed from Barry, set play. layup good.

Mavs miss but Dirk and Bowen grab rebound at same time. Foul called on Bowen. Pop talks to ref.

Dirk makes both FTs. 65-59

Parker up and under misses layin on Devin Harris but Rasho tips it in!!! FInally! 67-59

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Dirk bombs away from 21 on right wing, off-balance. swish! 67-61

Barry goes baseline and misses from side but Rose fouled by Booth on reb.

TP penetrates and out to Manu for 3 on left side, THREE!!!

Devin Harris from top of key sizes up and drains the three. good.

Parker gets into middle and dishes to Rose from side 12 footer, good.

Finley miss, Manu saves but to Dallas, layup good.

TO double dribble TP.

Harris misses 3, Manu drives and is fouled. 2 FTs good.

Beno in, no that's Wilks in for Parker with 4.8 left.

Finley shoots from near halfcourt at buzzer, hard off glass wide. no good.

74-66 at end of 3rd.

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Beno in with Manu, Devin, Rose and Rasho.

Devin misses 3 but rebound Devin jumper good!

Henderson misses hook.

Rasho goes across lane and banks in hook shot hard off glass!!!!

Blocked by Rasho, Dirk swishes wing fade-away over Devin Brown.

[milkyway21]

no rbds,4 pts, get Malik out! put TD back in

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Devin blocked inside by Terry. Finley fouled.

Tim comes in for Malik.

Fin makes 1 of 2 FTs. 78-69. Rasho flashes out and Rasho throws o/b trying to hit Beno. misses signals.

Spurs double stack with Devin and Rasho in corner. Dallas has to call timeout. Nelson is mad at Henderson in huddle.

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Bad inbounds pass by Dallas, shot clock goes off. TO Dallas.

Beno enters offense, handoff to Manu drives baseline and out to Devin on rt wing for 3!!!!!!!

Terry bounces in short shot.

Timmy good, from Devin!

Dirk jumpshot good.

Beno drives baseline and misses but Rasho tips it in!!!!!! He's on fire :)

[1Parker1]

Damn, Rasho is comming alive in the 4th Quarter. He scored a basket, blocked a shot, got an offensive rebound and a tip-in. GO RASHO!

[milkyway21]

Rasho is hot! half-time Pops Blah Blah, Rasho? :blah

[xcoriate]

Thanks oncew again for the updates Solid, really enjoying your commentary

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Bowen back in for Manu.

finley misses, reb Devin.

Duncan misses baseline hook.

Rasho blocks Stackhouse!

Devin misses pick and roll jumper.

[Zmaj]

Thanks oncew again for the updates Solid, really enjoying your commentary

Yep tnx from me as well, can almost see the game in my head
:spin

[milkyway21]

i'm just happy Dirk kept on missing those shots. he's doing it all! if he made all that-we're toast! :angel

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Stack takes it hard to try to draw foul layup good. 85-75

Beno misses hard-driving layup just curls off the rim.

Dirk misses fadeaway, Rasho rips rebound away.

TO Beno. Armstrong gets it. Foul on Devin on dunk attempt by Armstrong. Make that Stackhouse. 2 FTs good. 85-77. 5:47 left

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Manu cuts backdoor, shut off but good footwork and hooks it in!!!

Manu blocks layup uptempo by Stack!

RAsho fastbreak running floor in lane leaner good!!!!!! 89-77 :wow

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Parker steals, then Rasho loses ball. Dirk fastbreak fouled by Rasho. 2 FTs good. 89-79.

Manu into the lane, misses runner o/b Spurs ball.

Bad inbounds pass, over and back Manu stepped on line trying to catch pass from TP.

[1Parker1]

oh no, this game is reminding me of Houston...

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Terry back in for Armstrong. Inbounds to Dirk for a long arching 3 from left wing!!!

Parker misses runner layup.

Uptempo Dallas Stack to Finley hook shot in lane good. Dallas cuts lead to 5. 89-84.

Miss by Duncan on layup, Rasho misses Tip. dirk misses short shot from side well defended by Bowen. Tim hook in lane no good but fouled hard. Timeout with 2:22 left in game. 89-84.

[1Parker1]

Parker has a TO, Dirk makes a 3 pointer, Parker misses shot at the other end and Finly answers with a layup and all of a sudden a 10 pt lead is cut to 5

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Rasho, Tim, Bowen, Manu, and Parker still in after timeout. Duncan at line for FTs.
Tim 2 FTs good!!! :elephant 91-84.

RAsho goes out between FTs and Devin in.

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Tough D by Spurs, Gino fouls Dirk on shot. 2 FTs good by Dirk 91-86.

Pick and roll Tim and Manu, Tim jumper missed shot clock violation.

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1:46 left Armstrong takes it off screen easy layup!!!

Bowen takes it twisting in lane and lays it in, almost a Tim goaltend.

Dirk from outside, swish! TP from left wing, SWISH!!! 95-90 timeout Dallas.

[milkyway21]

Who's actually guarding Dirk? Devin again?

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Replay shows Tim touched Bowens layup but no goaltending called.

Jason Terry from left wing for three!!

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95-93
Manu misses wing three attempt but Devin Brown hustles into the middle of lane and wrestles away rebound.

15 sec. left TP dribbles and Dallas has to foul him. Foul on TP, timeout.

[1Parker1]

We were up by 10 with a little over a minute! Spurs really need to work on how to close out games better.:(

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Beno in. Inbounds pass to Gino, Dallas fouls him. Manu shooting FTs.

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Manu makes 2 FTs!!! 97-93 :elephant. 12:5 sec left. Timeout Dallas.

[milkyway21]

the Mavs is killing us, Dampier is not even playing. Jason Terry is good. But I think we can pull on this one. Go Spurs!
Dirk 2 pts. Spurs lead by 2. Hope not another Tmac huh?

[myhc]

This game isn't over yet (i say that now every time after the rockets game) but we'll probably pull it out. Combined with the suns loss tonight, we can pick up another game! :elephant

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Spurs have Tim, Bowen, Devin, Gino, TP in.

Dirk drives and spins, kick out to Armstrong no good for 3.

Ball o/b off rebound to Mavs.

Pass into Dirk, jumper over Tim from left wing, good. 97-95 with 2.7 left.

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Great game. 2.7 left Spurs ball. Lots of excitement. Mark Cuban goes over to Scorers table asking something. ???

[jalbre6]

Cuban went to bitch about Duncan not being called for goaltend (Dallas ESPN radio)

[jalbre6]

whew 90 footer miss!!!!!!!!!

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Horry in. Passes in to Gino running away in backcourt trying to get away from Armstrong. Darrell fouls him with 1.0 left.

Manu front of rim, backboard and in!!! misses second FT and Dirk rebounds and fires it court length and hits top of backboard!!! Game over.

[myhc]

This is me right now :elephant

This is me realizing we just picked up another game on the suns!! :elephant :elephant :elephant

[jalbre6]

Wow Rasho 8 points, 12 boards, 4 blocks

[Solid D]

Wow, Dallas really battled it out and played the Spurs tough. Lots of TOs for the Spurs. Spurs caught a couple of breaks but got some really questionable calls also.

98-95. What a game by Dirk!!!

[milkyway21]

Mark Cuban finally figured on how to limit TD, but he cannot stop him tonight. Great game from Dirk 36 pts-13 rbds? Still Spurs RULE!!!!! :elephant :elephant :elephant

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Spurs outshoot Mavs 50% to 43% and Spurs shoot 85% from the FT line (17-20) and needed every one of them. Whew!!!

[boutons]

Der Kraut is such a stud. Scoring, defending, hitting big shots, 13 boards, a real leader. He really outplayed Duncan tonight. Tim gets 6 RBs? I think Tim should start deferring to Rasho.

[ALVAREZ6]

This was a great game, Manu had a great game, nice block, nice 3's...

[milkyway21]

Wow Rasho 8 points, 12 boards, 4 blocksYeah! he's HOT tonight! :elephant

Hey! Slovenian guy tell Rasho to keep it up okay?

[ChumpDumper]

Probably the best D Dirk has played on Duncan.

Will this team ever play up to its potential?

[ChumpDumper]

Rasho's sweeping hook might even make a highlight reel.

[Manu20]

How about Parker with 9 assists and also hit a clutch jumper down the stretch.

[milkyway21]

Der Kraut
.who's he? Dirk?

Is that his German name?

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Manu being interviewed on WOAI radio as player of the game.

Manu says it was really hard tonight. Dallas scored really tough shots and played tough to very end. Manu loves playing 4th quarters in crunch time. Drive the lane, make shots or FTs. Says the Houston game next reminds of the last time they played. "It was the toughest loss of the season." We have to be ready.

[ChumpDumper]

We should watch out -- Houston is healthy and 7-3 it's last 10.

[ALVAREZ6]

Rasho's sweeping hook might even make a highlight reel.
ugliest hook shot ever,...

but i loved it.

First time i saw Rasho laugh/smile. :smokin

[boutons]

yep, HOU will be very tough.

On different nights this week, Sura and Howard had huge games, taking the pressure off TMac. HOU scored 124 pts @DAL. When was the last time a JVG team got 120 points?

[Solid D]

Props to Devin for that offensive rebound he stole after Manu's missed three with 15 seconds left. What a great effort play that was. That was probably the key play in the game.

[jalbre6]

they won't shut up about the Bowen lay-in TD non-tip play on Dallas radio...they were already down three before the play and the ball was going in anyway. Replay is kinda sketchy on TV

[maxpower]

what station in dallas..and do they stream online. Usually they have a postgame on the ticket but for some reason not tonight.

[jalbre6]

http://www.espn1033.com

[GoSpurs21]

Der Kraut is such a stud. Scoring, defending, hitting big shots, 13 boards, a real leader. He really outplayed Duncan tonight.Its easy for irk to do that when $tern and the refs let him do whatever he wants and call all kinds of touch fouls on his opponents. Its like irk is the second coming of MJ. When is the "Special" treatment going to end?

That foul on Tony in the 1st half was clearly shown from an angle that showed Tony didnt come close to touching irk. Too bad BSPN chose to ignore showing that angle. And the block by Horry was shown over and over, I'm still waiting to see an angle that shows the ball on its way down prior to Horry blocking it.

[Experiment2100]

what station in dallas..and do they stream online. Usually they have a postgame on the ticket but for some reason not tonight.


Isn't the postgame on WOAI?

[Rummpd]

"Dirk played great D on Duncan"

Duncan scored 25, missed few shots, made the FTs - did what was needed.

Do you all agree that Dirk played really good D on Duncan?

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[ChumpDumper]

Actually the quote is "Probably the best D Dirk has played on Duncan."

It's all relative. The simple fact that Dirk effectively fronted Tim burned alot of the Spurs' 24 second clocks in the fourth.

[SequSpur]

Spurs won. Nice D Dirky!

[Solid D]

Der Kraut is such a stud. Scoring, defending, hitting big shots, 13 boards, a real leader. He really outplayed Duncan tonight. Tim gets 6 RBs? I think Tim should start deferring to Rasho.

Dirk was not getting off well at all until later in the 2nd. Dallas created a mismatch by going big, as noted in this Blog, with Dirk playing the 3 spot and defended by Bruce, Devin, or whatever Pop could come up with (that didn't work).

It wasn't really Tim on Dirk that much at all tonight.

[grjr]

I thought the Mavs got a lot of home-court calls tonight. The game WAS in SA wasn't it? It sure looked a lot like our court colors.

jr

[Experiment2100]

Just to go a little OT: Did anyone notice decreased sightings of Mark Cuban, they used ti show him every time that they played but On ESPN I saw him once. Looks like everyone's favorite owner has lost some luster.

[JohnMcClane]

Mavs fan here... just thought I would offer up one Mavs fan perspective...

First of all.. good game. I don't think tonights score is indicative of how much better you guys are than us right now. Your team looked bored with us.. even with a full roster I think your team would have been bored because you beat us twice already.. even though we had injuries then and our team is still developing after being totally reformed.

But regardless... even if we were at full strength and playing our best baskeball I still think you guys are much better right now.


That foul on Tony in the 1st half was clearly shown from an angle that showed Tony didnt come close to touching irk. Too bad BSPN chose to ignore showing that angle.

This call was a make up call. Dirk was fouled the previous possession and should have gotten a 3 point play. I hate make up calls, though. I don't think they should do it. But that is why Dirk got that call.


And the block by Horry was shown over and over, I'm still waiting to see an angle that shows the ball on its way down prior to Horry blocking it.

I was watching the national ESPN broadcast and they showed that shot clearly.. it was coming down when Horry got it.

And just for the record.. Dirk does not get freebie calls. Before this season he was probably the least respected star in the league. I saw LeBron James get 10 times more respect in his VERY first NBA game than Dirk had gotten at any point in his career.. and Dirk led his team to the WCF and a 60 win season.

Dirk is finally starting to get some calls this season.. but it still depends on who is officiating him. The reason he is getting so many calls this season are many.. first of all we got a 1/4-way-decent center in Dampier.. something we never had before. This allows Dirk to exclusively play power forward.. where bigger guys have no chance of guarding him. And because Nash is gone Dirk is carrying more of an offensive load.... And most importantly because the league is enforcing more foul calls on perimeter defenders to open up the offense more league wide

[samikeyp]

Tim got away with one on the offensive goaltending. You will forgive me, however, if I have no sympathy for Dirk getting no calls, as someone who has watched Duncan since his rookie year. Besides refs don't decide games, players do. I know John you were not saying that but I just peeked in at DallasBasketball.com and its all about the refs over there.

[JohnMcClane]

You will forgive me, however, if I have no sympathy for Dirk getting no calls, as someone who has watched Duncan since his rookie year.

No sympathy needed. :) I'm just sayin, Dirk is not given any preferrential treatment. But he is finally getting some respect.


Besides refs don't decide games, players do. I know John you were not saying that but I just peeked in at DallasBasketball.com and its all about the refs over there.

I agree. I believe that even if the Mavs had gotten more calls.. the Spurs would have probably just turned it up enough to beat us. Like I said.. I think they were bored and played down to the level of their opponent.

Even though I do think the Spurs have over-acheived some this season they are still much better than the Mavs have shown to this point. By the end of the season who knows? I don't know how good this Mavs team can get. I doubt we will get to be as good as the Spurs though because we are still not right in our roster AND the Spurs are so much more experienced as a whole.

[maxpower]

Dirk's style of play keeps him from drawing many fouls that post up players usually draw. Also he tends to overexagerate when contact occurs. Case in point when he tried to bring the ball over Manu and he poked his own face and acted like he had been shot. He does have sick game but a 7 footer doesn't need to throw himself around to get ref help.

[samikeyp]

ugliest hook shot ever,...
never ugly when it goes in, right? :)