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I just got myself a sweet ass Mashburn throwback jersey on eBay. Mavs oughta wear their throwbacks (both the green and blue ones) a lot more often.
I HATE being a fan of the Dallas Mavericks. It ing sucks. I've made a lot of mistakes over the years...but one of the biggest was falling in love with Mark Aguirre, Rolando Blackman and Sam Perkins in the spring of 1988, as they went all the way to the Western Conference Finals and nearly pulled off the upset of the Showtime Lakers. Being a Mavericks fan means talking yourself into Doug Smith's "upside," ppraying that the rumors of "acrimony" between Jason Kidd and Jimmy Jackson are not true, and hoping that Randy White finally pans out.
I spent a good part of my life rooting for teams that struggled to crack 20 wins a year. Can we go ahead and fast-forward to June and the Lakers-Cavaliers Finals?
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...simmons/081028
Random Miami note: I watched Game 3 of the 2006 Finals on NBA TV earlier this month, which features at least eight incomprehensibly bad calls or no-calls and should always be mentioned on the short list of NBA playoff games with the fishiest officiating. I look at the Donaghy Saga as a good thing now; there's just no way that anything like "Game 3 of the 2006 Finals" will ever happen again. You will never see three referees collectively decide either consciously or subconsciously, "We're giving every borderline call to Team X and that's that." Anyway, I blocked this out of my mind, but seriously, how bad was Miami's "every fan wears white" gimmick for those games? They looked like they should have been rooting for Zac Efron's team in "High School Musical 3." What an appalling Finals in every respect. Maybe the league's worst moment since the Kermit Washington punch. And yet I digress.
So, anyways, I'll pull my attention away from masturbating to the Sunday paper JC Penny bra ads at 3 in the morning in my parent's basement, and redirect my focus to the upcoming season. The experts seem to think this is the beginning of the end for the Mavs as elite contenders, and they're probably right.
I look forward to Jason "Cement Shoes" Kidd being lit up by Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Tony Parker and even Skip to my Lou. I can't wait to see Josh Howard further degenerate and waste away from Michael Finley disease. It's always a heartwarming sight to see Erick Damper fumble away a perfectly delivered pass from Jason Kidd and blow an easy dunk. Antoine Wright should lock down the starting 2-guard spot by shooting a sizzling 40% from the field. Devean George is in the mold of James Posey - a veteran perimeter defender who is expected to help spread the floor and knock down three's - except he ing sucks. JJ Barea would make an adorable mascot - except he's our backup point guard.
The following coda is a fitting epitaph for this franchise:
Last edited by Findog; 10-29-2008 at 11:04 AM.
I just got myself a sweet ass Mashburn throwback jersey on eBay. Mavs oughta wear their throwbacks (both the green and blue ones) a lot more often.
I've gotten a lot of throwback swag on ebay - I love anything with the old Cowboy hat logo. I wish they would dump that gay-ass horse and go back to that.
The Mavs have gotta be the Cubs of the NBA. Is there another team that's a stronger candidate for that, um, honor?
The Suns. They've been around longer, have had just as many, if not more, excruciatingly close calls, and they probably would've won a le by now if their owner wasn't such a cheap bas .
Yeah but I don't think the Suns have that air of "We will always fail no matter what" permeating their entire organization and fanbase. , the media STILL has a boner for the Suns even this season.
I don't see that at all. Most of the reviews I've been reading expect a "Sunset" in the Valley of the Sun this year. Get it? See what I did there?
Actually, I came across this:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ons/index.html
The other surprise finalist here is the Mavericks, who hired coach Rick Carlisle to bring order to their diversity of talent. "Dallas could easily win the West,'' said the scout who picks them. "They're deep and really talented; if they have an injury, they can plug other people in. Rick has always been successful, and this is much more talent than he's had except for that one year in Indiana when they reached the conference finals.'' And that Pacers team was far younger than the group Carlisle inherits in Dallas.
The suns never smelled a championship like the Mavs did in 06. I honestly have sympathy. 0.4 was hard to swallow. To imagine 4 games of equally dicey ...
Reggie Miller on what Carlisle brought to the Pacers in 1997-98:
“This (Mavs) team reminds us of when Larry (Bird) and him first came to the Pacers. … Everybody kind of wrote us off that we were too old, that our best days were behind us and that's the year we should have beaten Chicago in the conference finals. … The parallels are somewhat the same. And everybody's kind of writing them off. (Dallas is) not young anymore. But there's a lot to be said of a team that has some mileage on it. I like experience. I still think they have one more run in them.’’
That pic of Cuban does as much for him as the Dukakis photo in a tank.
Last edited by Indazone; 10-29-2008 at 11:40 AM.
As a Mavs fan, you can't say anything, because you'll just be called a sore loser, and honestly, we didn't play our best basketball in the Finals.
By the same token, Phil Jackson, Tracy McGrady, Bill Simmons, all guys that have no love for Dallas, have said pretty much the same thing...
I guess it's just ESPN then. Nobody is picking them to win it all, but I think the general consensus is that they're still a solid playoff team and much better than Dallas. Then again, going to ESPN for basketball insight is like asking Jessica Simpson to tutor you in quantum physics.
I think the Suns will make the playoffs, because they're better than Denver, Golden State and the Clips. And Amare will continue to pad his stats. But Shaq, Nash and Hill are old, and Bell is not a spring chicken.
Say what you will about Marion and him going off the reservation last year, and the need to trade him, but is Shaq gonna play 60 games for them this year? That was a bad trade for them. Shaq is not going to go all out for them.
At the moment, probably not. The mid-90's Spurs were cut from the same "let's kick the fans in the nuts come playoff time" fabric. I feel for you guys.
I think the case could be made that Yao and T-Mac are the Pryor and Woods of the NBA, but the Rockets do have some Larry O's in the trophy case. The Jazz had some pretty talented teams that fell short of expectations, but it's tough to paint any team that couldn't beat the Bulls in that period as failures. Maybe the Suns? There were the ringless Barkley years prior to this current run of postseason heartache, though their current incarnation is following a strangely familiar track of firing an "all O, no D" coach in favor of hiring a gritty PG from the Spurs 99 team.
The Sun's and the Jazz epitomizes the almost but never were.
Nah, I can't do that. I had the good fortune of growing up a Cowboys fan and witnessing three Superbowls, but being a bandwagoner never resonates in the same way as being a true believer.
The Raiders have had more success in the last ten years than the Cowboys have.
Mavs will shock the world and win the le this year...just wait...
Mavs will be fine. they will struggle a bit to make playoffs. But once in playoffs they will be dangerous. Same as spurs
I would love to see matchup of Lakers vs. Mavs in playoffs
What is with all the talk of the Mavs/Suns being a disaster/failure in the playoffs? They might have not won a championship, but was anyone really expecting them to?
The Mavs were the underdogs in the 2006 Finals.
The Suns can't beat the Spurs.
The Mavs were again the underdogs in 2007 and 2008 vs. the Warriors and Hornets.
They are just fulfilling their role in the NBA. Not everyone can win a championship. It's like saying the Nuggets or the Hawks suck because they didn't win the championship. They weren't supposed to and no one ever expected them to. There are your great franchises like the Celtics, Spurs, and Pistons - then your underdog junior varsity clubs like the Mavericks, Suns, and Lakers who can make a couple of shots every now and then but crack under pressure.
I won't be surprised when the Mavs end up being a 4th seed.
oh damn.
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