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How does Cuban's taste to you?
You can't argue with someone who thinks that Baron Davis is better than Steve Nash.
I read the Mavs fan message boards and they don't like Dampier. They feel like they should have gotten alot more production for close to $10 million a year.
How does Cuban's taste to you?
You can't argue with someone who thinks that Baron Davis is better than Steve Nash.
Nash is better now, but you'd be on crack to say that Davis wasn't ballin out of his mind that series
Find the post in this thread where I said Baron Davis is a better basketball player than Steve Nash and I'll leave ST forever. You can't find that post and you leave ST forever. Don't be a chicken .
Sure Davis was great in that series, but Nash was in his prime three years ago.
I can agree that maybe we beat GS with Nash, but we never get past San Antonio with him. The total lack of defense on his part makes it hard to build a championship team around him
IMO it's pretty obvious Nash woulda helped Dallas out against Golden State. When a series is that up tempo any team with Steve Nash is gonna have the edge because of how well he does in those games. With that said, them losing that series was more an indictment of Avery Johnson's coaching and how easy it was to turn a game against them into a jump shooting orgy. If Dallas was a championship team that year they woulda been able to just slow it down and out execute G-State in the half court, it's not about Nash/no Nash.
The 2006 Spurs series will always provide enough reason why Dallas shouldn't be criticized for letting Nash leave. Eric Dampier, the guy they could get once Nash left, defended Duncan better than Dallas ever did in 2001 or 2003. Tony Parker had a very sub par, inconsistent series he woulda never had against Nash. Dallas was attacking the hoop better than any team led by Nash ever has, and they executed in the half court better than they ever did with Nash.
Okay you got me. You didn't say Davis is a better player but your quote about Nash not being as effective on offense after going against a bigger stronger and faster player is ignorant. The way Golden State played defense, there's no way that Nash would have been shut down. He's a better shooter, passer and thinker than Davis. Don't act like Davis's strengths would be an advantage over Nash's strengths.
As much as I bash Devin his defense was good on Parker in that series, no way Nash does that to him.
Then what are the Mavs doing with Jason Kidd as the point guard. As great as he once was defensively, he has been torched the last three years. Its forgivable to get torched by Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul, but to get torched by George Hill? Notice that Hill didn't fair so well against Nash in the next round.
Kidd's problem is that he plays so much help defense, that he leaves guys like Hill wide open for long jumpers, and Hill happened to have the series of his life and hit them all. Kidd needs to work on staying home on shooters this year.
Mavs fans should realize that Devin Harris and Steve Nash could have played together. So to say Nash's defense was holding them back is a copout considering that Harris could have defended the other teams best perimeter player.
You have a case if you put it that way. If Nash plays the Jason Terry role and guards Bowen, the Mavs might win it all in 06. Certainly would have a player to make more clutch shots in the Finals.
Going out and getting Kidd is actually what makes them letting Nash go look questionable. From 2005-2007, it made perfect sense for Dallas. They moved away from being an up tempo team and toward being a half court, defensive minded team that didn't require a PG to do so much on offense. Letting Nash leave allowed J-Ho and Devin Harris to develop into good individual players, it allowed Dirk to become a more complete player who was a lot better at getting high % shots, Jason Terry was fine as the short term replacement, and Dallas was able to have a legit center on the court at all times since they no longer had a PG who was ineffective with a big man clogging the lane.
Now that they traded Harris for Kidd and brought in a guy like Marion, you're right, it begs the question why not just keep Nash in the 1st place if using a high assist PG is such a huge part of your offense. The thing is, they made the Kidd trade out of desperation, it wasn't their ideal scenario. When Devin Harris never took the next step they expected him to take, Josh Howard stopped taking the ball to the hole and started settling for jumpers, Jason Terry got to old to do anything other than spot up, and Jerry Stackhouse just got old period, their only option was to get a PG who could take the ball out of their hands and make things easier for them.
Value contract at the end, specially for a center
2010-11 $6,900,000
2011-12 $7,624,500
2012-13 $8,349,000
2013-14 $9,073,500
2014-15 $9,798,000
2015-16 (unguaranteed) [trade chip of $10,522,500]
TOTAL (guaranteed) - 5 years, $41.745M"
Looks like Dampier v2
Hmmm, should i check hoy much the Rockets paid Yao and T-Back the last few years for every game they were on the court?
Just for the fun...
And yet Dirk still has as many championships as those two....ain't it a peach?
41 million for 7 points and 6 rebounds ......... brutal
Like paying a hooker to catch VD, and still going in unprotected. Good job Cuban
Luke Waltons total numbers?
naw, Mitch was only dumb enough to give Walton 6 for 30 ..........
Damn ...... you had to bring up Luke. I' would throw a party if Luke would average more than 7 points per game this season.
I didnt even bring up the Vuja earning the last two seasons between 4-5 millions for 5.8 and 2.8 points
3.9/5.3
Money well spent, Cubes.
What are Andrew Bynum's stats on the season?
Well deserving of $13.8 million, I'm guessing.
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