What can I say, it was Rocket-esque
btw it's official that Diop & JJB are signed to stupid money contracts. So we're all set for a threepeat dynasty run.
at least we aren't getting "we love our team" shoved down our throats. we're just getting silence and the occasional mumbling of some nebulous trigger points that probably don't exist.
Call me crazy, but I think if that rumored VC to Dallas deal went through we'd be set. We'd have the legit 2 guard we were lacking and another shooter. Some may not agree but the Diop signing was a big deal to me, you could tell that lacking his defensive presence really hurt us. I'd even go so far as to say he was the 4th most important player on the 2006 team that went to the championship, without his late game defense on Duncan there's no way we get past the Spurs. Plus, giving minutes to Green and Foster can't be any worse than Suckhouse, breath, or Eddie Jones.
I'd love for that to happen, but I have this horrible feeling that Donnie & Cuban are so blindly in love with the roster that they think Avery was the only problem and that Carlisle fixes everything.
i definitely think that having Diop back is going to be a major improvement. teams seemed to go on runs far too often as soon as Damp came out of the game, thus causing a good young player in Brandon Bass to constantly have a poor +/- stat line, when it really wasn't his fault. and another thing people forget, is we still havent gotten to see the way Kidd makes his teammates better, due to the awful system of Avery. we definitley saw some glimpses of what he can bring to the table when he is allowed to just do his thing (he even made Dampier look like a very solid center, Terry thrived on fast breaks, Dirk got lots of easy buckets, Howard was being found for alley-oops). unfortunately we didnt get to see that side of him often.
I have no optimism whatsoever regarding the upcoming season. Donnie and Cubes seem clueless. The whole midlevel for Diop, for five years????!!!!??
o well the dumb s in the FO tried..
http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/200...ummer_lea.htmlMavs offered Stack to Nets for Gana Diop
Looks like Gana Diop got his big payday -- bigger than a guy with a 1.8 ppg scoring average deserves, perhaps - but we're happy for him.
And as it turns out, those reports that Dallas solicited the Nets' help in landing Diop for a shorter term were right, but the details were sketchy.
The story goes like this: About a week ago, The Mavs called offering a S/T deal involving Diop, with Stackhouse coming back this way. The Nets ran it up the flagpole in their meetings, but nobody saluted it: Stack ($7.0M this year, $7.25M next year) would never want to deal with a rebuild, and the Nets thought they'd get the same kind of return from one of the kids in-house, notably Chris Douglas-Roberts.
So they declined, leaving Dallas with no choice but to throw an absurd amount at Gana.
Seemed to me like we saw more of those things at the beginning, then Avery's micromanagement and control came into play and slowed Kidd down. I know Kidd brought out the best I had seen in Dirk in the past year, he was sort of struggling up until Kidd came in. That there is at least room for a little hope, when you know Kidd is going to make your best player better. The team already rests on Dirk's shoulders.
that is beyond pathetic.
Guys, stay positive. Just look at Dampier's contract and all of the sudden Diop looks like a of a bargain!
Now all we need to do is get his ass in shape so he can play more minutes and become the primary center..
The Mavs front office has become a comedy bit at this point.
I think the reason i have optimism is because I am just so anxious to see what Kidd can do for this team. we had a lot of expectations for him that led to optimism, and we didn't get to see those things because of Avery. and this isnt very far from the team that got cheated out of a championship 2 years ago. this team obviously has the ability to go far, and we beat a damn good spurs team that year (and that spurs team is definitely better than any team that was in the league just this past year and IMO was quite possibly the best of all the Spurs teams during their championship runs. of course since they didnt win the championship they wont get that kind of credit, but i think they were a better team than they were the year before when they did win the le, as well as the next year when they won it all)Guys, stay positive. Just look at Dampier's contract and all of the sudden Diop looks like a of a bargain!
Now all we need to do is get his ass in shape so he can play more minutes and become the primary center..
A year from now we'll ask the following two questions -
1) Were the Mavericks a failure this season?
2) Is Josh Howard still on the team?
Those two questions are tied together because they will have the exact same answer.
I dunno about ya'll, but I'm optimistic about the upcoming season. I'll go as far as to guarantee ATLEAST 55 wins and ATLEAST a trip past the first round!
Well, that settles that... lock in the Mavs
lol, just givin my personal opinion. Of course, a lot is to be undetermined so its a premature prediction.
All we have to do now is trade for Ron Artest. Our team would be pretty badass when you think about it, especially our starting 5, assuming Josh can play 2:
PG Jason Kidd - Can't get more badass than beating up your wife and going to jail. Plus he just looks like a in badass!
SG Josh Howard - He's a dope crazed maniac who says what he wants, whenever he wants to say it. And he hits people in the back of the head without warning!
SF Ron Artest - This guy is just too badass for words. The best serial killer to ever play the game of basketball, other than Rodman.
PF Dirk Nowitzki - He's German, and that's just badass. Someday we will see the triumph of his will!
C Desagana Diop - He's from Senegal, he has probably killed multiple people will machettes. He's just a badass mother a
The Mavs are ing stupid if they decide to do only a little tinkering to this roster. I want Josh Howard's punk ass gone. That stupid son of a is a ing worthless scrub in the 4th. He is scared to ing shoot and a player like that who s himself in the 4th shouldnt be on this ing roster.
In terms of signing Diop for the MLE...whatever. The Mavs werent going to land an impact player for the MLE and anyone they sign was only going to slightly help matters. Double team him in the 4th and the best help he has is Stack or Terry.
Kidd needs to go and we should be able to get something in return with his expiring contract. Everyone not named Dirk Nowitzki needs to be traded. It is time to revamp this team. The bleeding cant be stopped.
I wish Dirk would call out the Mavs FO Kobe style so badly. Dirk doesnt deserve any of this ing bull . His prime years are being pissed away. If the Mavs are unable to help Dirk, then blow this whole ing team up. They had their chance in 2006 with this core and they couldnt get the job done. They have gotten worse since then.
Revamp the supporting cast for Dirk or revamp the entire Mavericks roster.
I will go to the grave believing the Mavs should've won in 2006 and were robbed, but what's done is done.
The Mavs had another chance though, in 2007, and Dirk's poor play in the opening round, although it didn't help that the Mavs lacked a low post scorer and Harris got absolutely schooled by Davis, was a contributing factor in the burnout. Much of the Dirk criticism is untrue and unwarranted, but let's not act like he's never had help ever... Mavs won 67 games that year.
Yeah they won 67 games in the REGULAR SEASON. In the playoffs, the tempo and strategies are very different. They took Dirk out of all of his comfort spots with doubles to go with knowing that the rest of the team wasnt going to be enough to beat them. Josh Howard being a worthless piece of as a 4th quarter player was a serious issue. Relying on Stackhouse/JET and to extents Harris to fill that 2nd option role is a bad thing.
When push comes to shove, Dirk hasnt had the help he needed. ty perimeter defense also didnt help matters either. Again the Mavs front office are ing idiots if they decide to keep this same core together. They werent good enough in 2006. They werent good enough in 2007 and they sure as werent good enough in 2008.
THIS IS A BROKEN TEAM THAT CANT BE FIXED UNLESS TRADES ARE MADE! YOU MAVS FRONT OFFICE FOR PISSING DIRK'S PRIME AWAY! YOU!
I disagree about 06 Dirk, the Mavs were the best team that year.
i believe the correct word is BAMF
I wonder which finger Donnie has shoved up his ass this week, since he obviously isn't doing much else.
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