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Letting Jason Kidd drop 20 assists in a must win game to make the playoffs could be the dictionary definition of quitting.
You're giving Nash bc Tony Parker went for 30 on him???? Nash CAN'T guard TP. It's not a matter of WON'T. I've watched him in Dallas and in Phoenix and I'll never question his effort or desire.
Letting Jason Kidd drop 20 assists in a must win game to make the playoffs could be the dictionary definition of quitting.
You musta missed the last game Dallas and Phoenix played each other.
The Mavs and Spurs were constructed better than the Suns were. You can't get to the Finals when you give up 50%+ shooting routinely. Nash deserves some blame for the lack of overall team D, but so does Amare, D'Antoni, etc.
No, I watched it.
No, he didn't. He was gassed at the end of G6 but he was still trying. They were basically a 6-man rotation at that point.
He sure played with a lot of heart when Jason Kidd was posting him up.
It's just coincidence the Mavs all the sudden got the structure and defense a team needs once Nash left?
This thread sure covers a lot of topics
And Findog, I blame Amare and D'antoni plenty. It's not like I'm a huge Amare fan, I just think Nash needs to go a lot more than Amare.
You say "gassed"...I say quit. He did the same damn thing with Dallas earlier in the decade.
Getting posted up by Kidd is not a matchup he can win.
When? I don't ing think so:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...305270SAS.html
They were facing elimination on the road without Dirk and they rallied from 19 down. Anybody watching G6 of PHX-DAL in 2006 could see how exhausted he was in the 4th Quarter.
It's not a matchup he should get dominated by as much as he did. Jason Kidd was backing down to the basket with way too much ease. Steve Blake is just as under sized as Nash, why is it Kidd has never dropped 19 points and 20 assists on him?
Cubby, I agree with Findog about 2006, Nash simply ran out of gas. He'd carried the team all year with no help.
Nash's departure alone didn't solve anything, it created problems. We were lucky we had Antoine Walker's expiring contract to land Jason Terry. And as maligned as Dampier is, he gave us size and D in the middle.
Would Dallas have been able to become the good defensive team they were in 2006 if Nash was the starting PG?
I don't know. Never watched many Nets-Blazers games. Depending on the matchups and personnel on the floor, there may be other things Kidd's teams want to do. Too many variables to answer that question.
Jason Terry is just as bad at D as Nash, so assuming we could swap out Terry for Nash and still have Dampier, I think we win the le that year.
His departure didn't solve anything, you're right, but it opened up the possibility of taking the next step they needed to take.
Phoenix wouldn't be a better team if he died tomorrow, but they'd no longer have that hump they'll never get over with Nash.
I think Tony Parker takes a piping hot on Dallas.
FWIW, they didn't plan on losing Nash. They wanted to bring him back but never expected PHX to come up with the offer they did. They were lucky that the contigency moves on the fly worked out the way they did.
You'd think if Kidd was that effective posting up every single PG as undersized or more undersized than Nash, his team would go to that whenever possible.
If you watched the first-round series this year between our two teams, he did exactly that. We couldn't stop him. Fortunately they had nobody else besides Duncan who could hurt us.
Ah, you're talking about Nash vs. Parker. I stand by what I said. They couldn't beat us this year with Parker playing out of his mind. He couldn't have done any better against Nash.
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