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Your year? Let's see...
Jason Terry Speaks Confidently And Frankly About Dallas' Next Move
By Mike Fisher -- DB.com
“This is going to be our year!’’ Jason Terry tells me, and I am only slightly moved. After all, doesn’t the always ebullient Jet think every year is going to be our year? I’m sure that he’s sincerely believed that it’s been his year since 1977, when he emerged from the womb and responded to the doctor’s butt tap not with a newborn’s cry but with the words, “Doc, this is going to be our year!’’
But then Jet and I start discussing the details of why he believes the 2009 Dallas Mavericks might be something special. And something becomes clear: While only time will tell if he’s correct, his belief isn’t just based on his by-rote confidence but also by his analysis of the Mavs roster – and what he terms “one or one-and-a-half’’ remaining needs.
“Believe what I’m telling you,’’ Terry says. “I like our team, the way we’ve put this team together. We’re one piece or maybe one-and-half pieces away.’’
Jet, speaking to me at his Jason Terry Foundation kids basketball camp in Plano (I’ll have the Video Visit up in a bit) is very specific in his thoughts on the Mavs’ personnel. We talked about veteran teammates Dirk, Josh and Kidd, and about newcomers Shawn Marion and Drew Gooden, and of course, about Terry himself.
“My No. 1 goal is to win a championship,’’ says Terry, who adds that his No. 2 goal is to be a back-to-back winner of the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year Award.
And in terms of the personnel needed to reach goal No. 1, Terry is willing to pinpoint what he thinks is the goal on the horizon.
“Now we’re looking for an inside defender, a guy who is 7-0, or 6-10, who can cover 7-footers,’’ he says. “We’re still maybe one or one-and-a-half or two pieces away …’’
Not very often do you hear a player be so precise and so vocal when it comes to his team’s personnel department. Terry’s remarks don’t necessarily demonstrate an awareness of “The Buck Shot’’ and other trade chips in Dallas’ possession. And of course, wanting to add “a piece or two’’ isn’t as easy as it sounds. But it does suggest, I think, a self-awareness on the part of the organization. … and if wanting to accomplish something was enough, well, with Terry in charge, it would certainly get done.
“We’re gonna knock some people around this year!’ Jet says, and by the time he’s finished with his one-on-one pep rally, you can’t help but be more than slightly moved.
http://www.dallasbasketball.com/fullColumn.php?id=1931
Good for him.
Sounds like he's just trying to prevent himself from punching himself in the crotch.
You dont really want to be 2 pieces away at this stage of the off season.
But they are only 1 piece away.
I agree. That one piece is Dwight Howard.
The Nuggets are one or two pieces away from the Championship, so the Mavs must be 4 or 5 away after the spanking they got last playoffs
They're a Kobe Bryant away from taking that !
Exactly, the Spurs have tasted the 4 times since the first time in 1999, the Mavs are eager to demand the Spurs tell us how the s taste.
Point of the story.
06
mutha you. Some muthafukers can only pander their joys on the wins of other teams, like Miami Cheat and GS warriors, while pretending blind when their team getting pussyraped by the boys in blue once and once again, and again...Point of the story.
The 06 NBA ing champions were the boys in blue, but not the punks in vintage red you idiot.
4 >>>>>>>>>> 0
How does he know how close/far are they if he never made it to the finish line?
wow it requires rocket tech math to calculate that 4 is bigger than 0, congratulations on your great success of math. But I hope that's not what turned you from a ty citizen of a sorry land into an American, because even my dog can do this math pretty well and America has got millions of dogs equally as smart as the one I have.4 >>>>>>>>>> 0
Even the Knicks are optimistic at this time of the year.
Riverwalkman = 0 Championships4 >>>>>>>>>> 0
Rodriguez = 0 Championships
Looks pretty even to me.
that quote was win
Marcin Gortat?
lol now this thread is
still being fueled by idiots that got bred from the same sorry race as the OP did.lol now this thread is
A piece of what?
i didnt even know the ultimate goal in Dallas was to win a ring. I thought it was all about beating the spurs and then getting wiped out in the next round. Good to see they are raising their expectations finally.
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