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He's supposed to not say anything. You don't have to answer every question.
WTF is he supposed to say...were not that good and we hope to get the #2 seed?
He's supposed to not say anything. You don't have to answer every question.
No offense man but you calling someone else a homer is pretty laughable.
I think Dallas is significantly better, but LA is ranked #1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6, then Dallas might be #7 or the Spurs.
Competing With the Spurs or the Fakers!!!!!!
Jason Kidd, nobody pays you to think
If we are healthy, you know you will kick your asses
You won the le only because SVG was dumb enough to stick with Jameer
Mark Cuban is the best judge of talent since since Jerry Jones.
They can compete with the Spurs. But the Lakers? Heh, no.
Dirk,Kidd, Terry, Howard, Marion would make a pretty fun to watch running team. Except they have the worst coach they could possibly find for that system and Gortat/Dampier.
So instead Dallas will pretend to be some gritty half-court team only with mediocre defense and it will be gloriously painful to watch.
Mavs had no chance to beat the Lakers in a 7-game series last year. Now? Still unlikely, but an upset would be possible. Mavs have improved, and the Lakers will have to contend with all of the BS that comes with winning a le - the disease of more as Riley calls it.
And the Mavs ran plenty last year and will do even more now that Marion is in the fold.
It would take extreme luck... Bynum struggling (not that it stopped them last year in playoffs, but I think it contributed in leaving the door open for the Magic and Denver to win)... Odom coasting after a contract... age catching up to Kobe?... Artest not meshing? injury... improbable not impossible. Even if only one of these things happen it may still not be enough.
That's what's scary about Lakers, they won le w/ Bynum playing that poorly. Does anyone honestly expect it to be replicated like that? That plus they've upgraded their small forward position.
At the same time though Dallas would have to avoid age catching up to them (lots of core guys over 30) and injury themselves.
And it seems its always the same story v the Gasol/Kobe Lakers... play tough for 3 quarters and then they take it to a gear in 4th we can't match... except in that one game where Mavs fell behind by 25 only to lose in crushing fashion by 2
So on top of the talent gap there may be a mental obstacle as well.
I dunno, I just dunno.
You might want to take a look back at Kobe's history against your boys.spurs historically don't aim for first and i don't expect them to this year. i expect LA to be dominant from the start while SA gradually gets better and peaks. too many unanswered questions right now to make assumptions about both teams though. Odom may not even return to LA , and the Spurs don't really know what to expect out of their youth.
LA won't win w/o Odom though. They wouldn't even make it to the WCF IMO . he's the one guy that hurts the Spurs. even if they sign him though, SA has more athletes than before to put on him. Spurs had 81 year old Horry trying to guard him in '08, so of course we got burnt big time.
A le is a le. But since excuses are what we're using...remember 1999, we all know about that. and 2007 was Suns suspensions.If we are healthy, you know you will kick your asses
You won the le only because SVG was dumb enough to stick with Jameer
But i still acknowledge Spurs deserved those les. You should do the same for the 2009 Champions
It's funny to hear the delusions that Mavs and Lakers fans have over here.
Lakers: Lose Odom and you get worse this offseason, not better.
Mavs: Overpaid Kidd, overpaid a declining Marion, hoping to overpay Gortat. Lost Bass, a great young energy guy. I don't see much improvement here at all, maybe even a wash. And at what cost?
I know, I know, who cares what that dork Cuban does with his money. Who cares (as a fan) if the Lakers and Mavs pay $20 million or more luxury tax. Still, continues to be quite funny to see Cuban bleed that kind of cash for no championship. What a dufus, unlimited budget, then picks the wrong players.
Amongst Spurs fans there was lukewarm interest in Marion at best. Career low numbers in 2008, past his prime. Gortat there was interest, but dreading the price tag at anything near the MLE. Nobody is convinced Gortat has any sort of offensive game, other than the occasional good looking wide open dunk.
I will laugh my ass off if the Spurs win yet another le when spending $20 million less than the chumps managing the Lakers/Mavs front offices. Especially if Artest freaks out along the way.
About what?
A lot of undetermined factors and variables that could lead to the Mavs making marginal improvement this year, but only an idiot (like yourself) would consider +Gortat/Marion -Bass a ing wash.
Oh yeah, Kupchak is a real moron. The Lakers are truly an example of how NOT to build a basketball team. And last I checked, the Mavs sent your team home and added Shawn Marion, Gortat and Ross w/o giving up anybody that would've contributed next year. The Mavs are clearly circling the drain too.
Gawd, timvp was right when he said the worst fans on this board are Spurs fans...simply due to the fact that this is a Spurs board and the rest of us get to see the shallow end of your fanbase.
"And last I checked, the Mavs sent your team home"
That's true, Knoxxx, the Mavericks did hand you an ass pounding just a few months back.
I sure hope not. He's the guy who went to a bad team and said 'We're going to change this team's direction 360 degrees.'
Yes, the Mavs sent the Spurs fishing last year but you have to realize the fact that they lost Manu for the playoffs and TD wasnt 100%.
It was a shortened season.
He had said the Lakers only won the le because Blah Blah Blah...I merely stated that to prove there can be many "they only won because..." statements about each champion, but that each champion deserves to be acknowledged and respected as champions
Every time someone leaves the Mavs that guy "Hurt the Spurs" Maybe, they just have the Spurs number.
The Spurs might finish with a higher seed than the Mavs, but head to head the teams are still pretty even. All of this is useless speculation until next May.
Kidd is going to turn the Mavericks around 360 degrees.
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