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blame the refs mang
What if Dirk's goto move wasn't a contested fadeaway jumper?
What if Josh Howard wasn't a pothead?
What if Carlisle didn't look like Jim Carrey?
SJax wouldn't have changed anything. Butler+Haywood > SJax.
blame the refs mang
I don't see a cat in here... I'm sorry, did you let it out by accident?
Well, for one thing, if SJax got benched the way Marion and Butler have this series, there would be locker room anarchy...
Tim Duncan 1-9 from the floor tonight. Manu Ginobili 4-16. You know why San Antonio won tonight? Superior coaching/superior guard rotation/superior bench.
I guess you didn't notice him driving to the basket on three straight possessions at the end of the third/beginning of the fourth to stop the bleeding (it would've been nice if Carlisle called more than 1 TO during that stretch or made adjustments to get the ball out of George Hill's hand.)
So in your opinion, when Dirk is bodied up close by two guys, he shouldn't swing it to Jason Terry for a wide-open corner three? If the Spurs play him straight up, he needs to shoot. If they come with a soft double, he needs to shoot. If they come with a hard double, and they've usually waited until crunch time to do that, he needs to find the open man instead of taking a bad shot where he can be stripped of the ball by the help defender. San Antonio used the exact same defense last year and limited his shot attempts by constant use of hard doubles. Bass, Howard and JJB made them pay for it. This year he's going for 30+ points on 50%+ shooting and he is getting NOTHING from his teammates. That's the difference between this year and last year (aside from the Spurs getting contributions this time around from Hill and Manu)
He's been the best player in this series. Unfortunately for Dallas, the second, third, fourth and fifth-best players in this series are all Spurs.Game 1 he was bad ass, and Game 3 was not his fault at all, that's 100% on Carlisle. But when your best player only shows up 50% of the time in the playoffs, that's what gets your team down 3-1
No, because he died three months ago, okay? So now who's the funny guy? Today is his birthday and it is a tradition that on his birthday I get up extra early and make him his favorite kind of dessert
Maybe what he needs to do is stop being so ing predictable and stop getting the ball at the exact same spot on the floor and stop making the exact same spin move every single damn time. Mix it up just a little bit, for 's sake.
I'm sure he'll work on that this offseason, along with his mythical post game.
So where would you have Dirk set up aside from the elbow or mid-post? They set him up at the elbow because it is very difficult to front him there and deny him the ball. The spin and hesitation moves are usually very adept at drawing fouls when he gets his man up in the air or out of position. It also allows him to see over the defense to hit cutters if they double him. They set him up at the mid-post because it forces opposing teams to cover a lot of ground to get back to the open man when they send a double.
How would you get him the ball? Would you run him off screens or curls like Rip Hamilton? Would you put him on the low block like Tim Duncan? Would you have him set up at the top of the key and set a high screen so he can take his defender off the dribble?
Don't worry bro, your cat's going to heaven.
Yeah, maybe. Maybe he went to heaven. He was a little er though, he could've gone to .
Plenty of options on the floor. The beauty of Dirk is supposed to be that he's got a SG skill set with a PF body.
True. I'm not saying abandon it completely, I'm saying mix it up. Give the opponent different looks, not the same thing over and over and over.
you need cutters for that to ever happen.
Unfortunately the open men on the team can't hit shots for . Which is why you mix it up.
All of the above. If you had to fear Dirk in every spot on the floor, rather that just one spot on the floor, I think the matchup nightmare gets even worse. Dirk's predictability and snail-like pace once he gets the ball is just as big a problem as Caron/Jet missing wide open shots and JJ Barea waving everybody off and trying to go 1v5 like he's LeBron James.
Are you okay bro? It looks like you've been crying or something.
Um, actually, my lip, that's a cold sore. And I've never had a cold sore before, so I cried.
Dude! A cold sore? Does that mean like, herpes?
Yes, that's what it means. I have herpes.
Herpes... woah, do you know how many like, joints we've shared?
Yes, I know, I'm a disgusting person.
yes, you are.
Stephen Jackson is a clutch shooter, but again, his primary weapon is his jump shot, something I'm seeing a lot of Dallas fans complaining that their team is built around. He's a dreadful ball handler, and only an occasional penetrator. This is a guy you can only love in the playoffs, and then only in the 4th quarter, mostly. He's actually a lot like Jet in that he can shoot you into or out of a game.
While Haywood>>>damp ( in Carlisle doesn't see this), he still has a very limited post game. Watching him trying to make a move down low is almost as painful as watching damp. Haywood is a great catch and dunk guy and with the occasional offensive reb and put back and that's about it offensively
All the same, main defender Antonio McDyess wondered why Nowitzki wasn't more aggressive. "It wasn't the defense, he just wasn't taking them,'' said McDyess of Nowitzki's failure to launch. "It looked like he was a little reluctant because we were shifting on him a lot and getting off him. I don't think he ever really knew when to take his shot. He had some open shots, but he just wasn't taking them.''
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...me4/index.html
oh please. damp couldn't catch a pass with 4 hands.
Exactly..damp is so bad that it makes Haywood look like Dwight Howard
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