Hollinger has our men in blue going 48-34

[Findog]

Better question is how will the Mavericks handle Tyson Chandler missing his standard 30-35 games....

Brendan Haywood will pay 30-34 minutes then and Dirk/Mahimhi will take the rest of the C minutes.

[MavDynasty]

Too many ing egos on this time in my opinion. Caron, Marion, Chandler, and Haywood have the potential to if they get benched especially Haywood and Marion. Marion ed in the playoffs even after his huge ass contract so I don't expect anything different from them.

53 wins with a 2nd round exit as a ceiling imho. Dirk will be at an MVP level again and Caron should beast after his summer workouts and training camp but you never know. Defense will be a problem for this team again though. I think they were 15th last year in PA and Opp FG%

[Giuseppe]

Caron should beast after his summer workouts and training camp but you never know.

Gee, don't go out on a limb or anything

[Latarian Milton]

Better question is how will the Mavericks handle Tyson Chandler missing his standard 30-35 games....

the standard 30-35 missed games won't be very likely next season if Chandler only plays about 28mins a game leaving the rest to Haywood. IMHO the minutes at C should be splat by half between Haywood and Chandler, and chandler will take the rest minutes as dirk's backup at PF. you'll have to give haywood at least 25mins a game otherwise he will start to about lack of game as findog discerned.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Better question is how will the Mavericks handle Tyson Chandler missing his standard 30-35 games....

Which isn't nearly as important as the question regarding how you manage to live without being able to see your .

[Booharv]

I'm not optimistic that Barea's minutes will be cut. PER, Plus/Minus, Win Shares, none of those stats are kind to JJB. It seems obvious that last year he was asked to do more than he is capable of at the NBA level. And they didn't do anything to upgrade the PG position in the offseason (DoJo is a 2). Sometimes you have to take a player off the roster to prevent the coach from playing him too much, but Cuban and Donnie didn't do that with JJB.

This is one of my biggest beliefs in looking at pro sports in general but at the NBA in particular. I've said it several times, but getting rid of Najera and Barea should have been the biggest priorities in the offseason for the Mavs. Najera is gone so thats a big plus for you guys. Sometimes you just have to take players away from a coach to get him to stop playing them. I honestly think coaches have failed frequently for this reason and their front offices were partially responsible. Unless the coach is Byron Scott (and even then still) if you load the roster and force him to have to play younger players or players who are better by trading away the scrubs he insists on playing (sometimes even losing particular individual trades or paying teams to take them) I think you can make a coach better in spite of himself.

Bonner is that way with the Spurs. I would have taken Anthony Tolliver over him in a second this offseason, since we already know Bonner has struggled mightily hitting shots in the playoffs (36.4 career playoff fg%, 6.9 career playoff PER).

I still don't know why Marion didn't play the backup four minutes last year for the Mavs. Specifically since that would have allowed Butler to slide down to the three more often and opened up more minutes in the backcourt for Beaubois, while still giving Marion and Butler the playing time they really desire. I know Marion dislikes playing the four but he was solid at it in Phoenix, and given the option of playing 20 mins only at the 3 or 30 at the 3/4 I'm pretty ing sure he would take playing some power forward.