What makes this Mavs winning streak any different than the ones from yesteryear?

[YoungB]

lol Young at it again

What makes this Mavs winning streak any different than the ones from yesteryear?

[Agloco]

What makes this Mavs winning streak any different than the ones from yesteryear?

Hate on them all you want, but they're getting it done on the defensive end this year. That's a significant departure from "yesteryear".

[YoungB]

[BUMP]

http://www.nba.com/jazz/schedule/121110_jazzmavs.html

This is the best Mavs team I've seen since I've been in the NBA. Across the board, they have so much talent and depth. But they're just playing a lot better defensively. This is by far the best defensive team we've seen from them.

[TD 21]

I seem to recall a 13 regular season win streak last season and a similar run couple years back. Seems like the per usual event with no significant meaning whatsoever. I'm wondering if anything has changed or why we should be taking these regular season overachievers seriously come win or go home time?

Nice to see someone remembers the Mavs doing this every season and doesn't suffer from revisionist history or automatically get sucked in.

What makes this season different? They're better defensively than at any time in recent memory (though their defense is overrated and in reality, barely better than the Spurs'), but far less explosive offensively. They don't have depth of scoring, which makes them highly reliant on Nowitzki continuing to shoot a percentage he hasn't even come close to in his career and Terry continuing to serve as a de facto go-to perimeter option. In other words, they're reliant on two things that can't be relied upon.

The good news is that they're one of the six best teams in the league. The bad news is that they're not one of the four best teams in the league, which means they fall short of being a legit contender. They aren't for the same reason the Magic aren't and that's the lack of a go-to perimeter player. Unless you have '94 and '95 Olajuwon or '99 and '03 Duncan, it's proven in this league (in recent history, at least) that you can't win without that. Johnson, Bird, Thomas, Jordan, Bryant, Ginobili, Wade, Pierce. The one obvious exception is the '04 Pistons, but they were just that: the exception, not the rule. Also, Billups and Hamilton were better then than Terry is now.

[BUMP]

Nice to see someone remembers the Mavs doing this every season and doesn't suffer from revisionist history or automatically get sucked in.

What makes this season different? They're better defensively than at any time in recent memory (though their defense is overrated and in reality, barely better than the Spurs'), but far less explosive offensively. They don't have depth of scoring, which makes them highly reliant on Nowitzki continuing to shoot a percentage he hasn't even come close to in his career and Terry continuing to serve as a de facto go-to perimeter option. In other words, they're reliant on two things that can't be relied upon.

The good news is that they're one of the six best teams in the league. The bad news is that they're not one of the four best teams in the league, which means they fall short of being a legit contender. They aren't for the same reason the Magic aren't and that's the lack of a go-to perimeter player. Unless you have '94 and '95 Olajuwon or '99 and '03 Duncan, it's proven in this league (in recent history, at least) that you can't win without that. Johnson, Bird, Thomas, Jordan, Bryant, Ginobili, Wade, Pierce. The one obvious exception is the '04 Pistons, but they were just that: the exception, not the rule. Also, Billups and Hamilton were better then than Terry is now.

[Ghazi]

good take... but once French Allah comes back we got that perimeter scoring.

[TD 21]

good take... but once French Allah comes back we got that perimeter scoring.

Nah, I don't mean collectively, I mean that one guy, who's either an all-time great or at least a Hall-of-Fame caliber player. They don't have it.

[Spursmania]

All three of whom can be completely contained by collapsing into the paint. Unless Manu is hot from three, our offense founders. Last year against the Suns they literally just started backing off to contain perimeter penetration and pressure Tim to give up the ball.

If the Spurs can get RJ to be a legit 4th option in the playoffs and a couple players to knock down the three, then yes, we're going to be a near-impossible out. But we aren't there yet.

No worries, I'm sure we could rely on good old Bonner...(cough, cough)

[pawe]

Yep he has 4, one for each time a man lured his mother with promises of engagement only to the out of her ass and leave her. He's the accidental outcome of one of these encounters.

Cool

[21_Blessings]

Streak hath come to conclusion.

[brock_lobster]

Why are Maverick Fans some dramatic and whiny whenever someone says anything even remotely negative about their team? Your team is a pathetic excuse for an NBA franchise, get over it and follow the Rockets, they need more worthless fans.

[jmard5]

lmao Philippines

your entire land revolves around a boxer and eating dog meat.

Don't find anything wrong with that.

[Shank]

Brock is ing terrible. What is this schtick of his? It's so terribly watered-down and trite. At least come with something new. Recycling the same dumb garbage we've seen for years is both tired and lazy. Try harder, please.

[brock_lobster]

Brock is ing terrible. What is this schtick of his? It's so terribly watered-down and trite. At least come with something new. Recycling the same dumb garbage we've seen for years is both tired and lazy. Try harder, please.

Why are you mad?

[cheguevara]

LOL getting owned by a troll called lobster

[YoungB]

LOL getting owned by a troll called lobster

[brock_lobster]

You seem to have forgotten how to enter a post.

[Greg Oden]

LOL getting owned by a troll called lobster

lol getting owned by calories

[frodo]

TC is the only element that makes the mavs different than ever before. C used to be their shortest stave and had en bered their strides time after time, having got TC now their C is about their 2nd strongest position on their squad. TC is not nearly as good a player overall as Iggy but he was apparently the best player for Dallas imho. champion squad complemented, we stacked...

[Ghazi]

[HarlemHeat37]

Wow, Blessings is on a historic streak of failure..I've never seen this before, not even from koriwhat or Tacker..