At least our D-League team is going to kick everyone's asses.
The Bulls have discovered some interest in guard Larry Hughes with the obvious caveat of exchanging troublesome contract for troublesome contract. Since the Bulls need to thin out their backcourt, some possibilities could include Portland's Joe Przybilla, New York's Jared Jeffries, Dallas' Erick Dampier, or Denver's Kenyon Martin.
http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_ar...est_in_hughes/
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First To Worst: Where's Dallas Headed?
By: Bill Ingram Last Updated: 7/30/08 12:23 AM ET | 1566 times read
It's amazing what a difference a trade can make. A trade can take a team from being an also-ran to the NBA Finals, like it did for the Boston Celtics and LA Lakers. It can take a team from the lottery to potential playoff berth, as the draft-day trade that landed Jerryd Bayless will likely do for the Portland TrailBlazers. It can also take a team from being a perennial championship hopeful to being on the bubble in terms of making the playoffs at all.
The last category is where the Dallas Mavericks now find themselves.
Before the team traded Devin Harris and Gana Diop to the New Jersey Nets in a package deal that returned Jason Kidd to a Mavericks uniform, Dallas had the best record in the NBA against the Western Conference. They were two years removed from a Finals performance and one year removed from one of the best regular season records in the history of the league.
The Kidd trade brought all of that to a screeching halt.
The Mavericks limped through the rest of the 2007-08 season, losing to every playoff team that crossed their path save one. The New Orleans Hornets made quick work of their first round series against Dallas, yielding only one game in their best-of-seven series as Chris Paul worked over the aging Kidd. Out with the old, in with the new seemed to be the theme of the Mavs' postseason. Avery Johnson was immediately relieved of his coaching duties and Rick Carlisle was put in his place.
Everything's OK now, right?
You would think so from the way the Mavericks have approached the offseason. To date they've made no trades, and spent their entire mid-level exception on Gana Diop. Granted, they needed a back-up center and loved what Diop brought to the table on the defensive end during his tenure as a Maverick . . .but that's a lot of money to spend on a guy who can't score when you really needed a true two to start alongside Kidd.
So far. . .nothing. Mavs GM Donnie Nelson tells us he'll fill the final two roster spots with young players from the summer league squad and call it good.
Is Rick Carlisle really that good? Is he so good that you can basically send the same squad out there that finished the season praying for other teams to lose so they could make the playoffs and expect a different result?
On paper, this team looks pretty good. Dirk Nowitzki, Josh Howard, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry, Erick Dampier . . .that's not a bad starting five. Of course, when you see the name Jason Kidd you are thinking of the player he was a couple of years ago. He's not that player any more. Kidd's age and Jet's size make that backcourt suspect on the defensive end. Everyone knows defense is not Nowitzki's strength, though he was passable under Avery Johnson's watchful eye. Howard was an excellent defender before his game took the second half of last season off. Dampier . . .well . . .Damp is probably the most overpaid player in the NBA.
So how exactly will the Mavericks be compe ive next season?
Apparently they're hoping for a miracle.
Frankly, the Mavericks are holding onto the playoff berth most likely to be claimed by the Portland TrailBlazers.
oh why not. do it, Donnie. , do SOMETHING.
"Donnie will take your message after the next Chinese national team practice. If he has time. Thank you."
Well he's gotta teach Yao how to sram dunk the bawrrr, he's busy right now. that josh howard for brent barry trade is coming soon guys, dont worry
That wasn't funny the first time.
i found that ing hilarious you wanna fight?
Yea put em up.
interesting article on trading Howard for Iguodala.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...?urn=nba,98268
prolly wont happen, but if it did... watch out.
Ed Stefanski has done a bang-up job turning around the Sixers. Why would he s'n't Iggy to Dallas for Josh, unless they don't want to pay him?
becaue they dont want to pay him
I'd deffinatly do this deal if Willie Green was included, he's another solid scorer and J-Ho and Iggy are pretty much a wash
Fellas don't worry, have you guys forgotten how big my balls are? Last year was just a taste, this year I'm gonna shove my sack down the NBA's throats!
Oh you Basshole
I hate to say it but right now the Mavs epitomized the word quagmire.
http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wir...d_kidd_either/
The lack of a contract extension was a big reason why Jason Kidd wanted to leave New Jersey, but rumor has it that there is no talk of him getting one in Dallas either, according to The Star-Ledger.
"It's just business," Kidd said of New Jersey. "We had a great run. Sometimes, with moves, business gets in the way. The sad thing is, nobody there is left from when we started the whole thing. I guess you could say they're starting over."
The Mavs are an intractable counter-insurgency in southeast Asia?
What an offseason...can you say
Sign Barea 3yr - $5mil
Sign George 2yr - $4mil (player option for 2nd year-reacquires Bird rights)
Sign Green - minimum
Sign Singleton - minimum (non-guarnteed)
Sign Diop - Full MLE
Sign McCleod - minimum (non-guarnteed)
I thought Carlisle said this team needs shooters, if he thinks George is a shooter, he is sadly mistaken and no one else on that list is anything close to a shooter
Last edited by sribb43; 08-21-2008 at 08:17 AM.
They gave Barea a 3 yr, $9 million contract? The ???????
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...e.3cb85ca.html
my bad it was less than $5 mil but your commited to 3 years of the spare JJB
This team just has no direction. The front office clearly doesn't give a , as evidenced by Cuban spending all offseason trying to buy the Cubs and Donnie off coaching the Chinese. Carlisle gets an A for Effort, but an F for being a ing dumbass and thinking Josh Howard and Devean George are the keys to winning.
I'm taller than Barea! I can sit on the bench for $1.5 million a year and be Dirk's goofy, adorable buddy.
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