Spurs do not have to worry about LAL - Mavs will take them out

[Axe Murderer]

When was the last time they won in LA?

last season, dip

[sefant77]

These are my thoughts about the mavs. They are a very good team and they always get up to play against the Spurs. So, it would be a great series as usual. But against LA, it is a different story. LA intimidates the crap out of dallas. When was the last time they won in LA? Chandler would be in foul trouble guarding bynum and gasol, so he won't make the difference against them.
Phil would whine about something to the media about the refs babying dirk and they will stop with the treatment. I would take the lakers in 6 over them. It would go 7 with the Spurs. I for once would like to see them play each other for a change. I still like the Spurs over them both especially if the outside jumper is automatic.

Maybe watch more basketball.

Mavs won last season in LA, they won this season against healthy Lakers without Butler, Roddy and with Dirk playing on one leg.

Bryant played really poor against the Mavs since they got Marion. They also got Stevenson. So its not anyway that Kobe can go berserk against trash like Wright, Griffin or having Terry defending them.

They got also the size and with Chandler the mobility on the center spot that lacked them with Damp. And in the last game Chandler didnt pick up a single foul in 28min.

[Axe Murderer]

Chandler would be in foul trouble guarding bynum and gasol, so he won't make the difference against them.

And in the last game Chandler didnt pick up a single foul in 28min.

[Findog]

I never read that article, did he theorize why that's the case? IMO it's because basketball IQ has gone down the toilet in the past decade, and the older players are just so much smarter as players that it helps their longevity.

Better training staffs, dieting, training equipment, advances in medical technology for treating injuries, etc.

[#41 Shoot Em Up]

Mavs, 6th in PPG allowed and 10th in defensive FG%, clearly they suck at defense. Have been a top defensive team all year. Stick to the club bro.

Regulate that trick GO

[MavDynasty]

lol Birdy getting his pushed in by sefant

[MavDynasty]

2003 all over again -- Spurs beat the Grizzlies in the 1st round [2004 but close enough], Lakers in the 2nd to end their string of le runs, and finally the Mavs in the WCF en route to the Finals.

We win every series in 6 games like we did that year.

tbh does Dirk get injured this time?

[birdy219]

Wow, such childish rudeness. I didn't mean to offend anybody by giving my opinion. I am not a he first off and I probably watch more NBA than a lot of you name callers. I just don't get the insults. It's not like the Spurs or Mavs won the championship last year. I was saying that it will be difficult to beat the lakers in LA. The Spurs have done it before. Have the mavs beaten them in the playoffs? I'm not talking about a regular season game here or there. geez

[awktalk]

Wow, such childish rudeness. I didn't mean to offend anybody by giving my opinion. I am not a he first off and I probably watch more NBA than a lot of you name callers. I just don't get the insults. It's not like the Spurs or Mavs won the championship last year. I was saying that it will be difficult to beat the lakers in LA. The Spurs have done it before. Have the mavs beaten them in the playoffs? I'm not talking about a regular season game here or there. geez

Are you young, hot and single?

[birdy219]

Are you young, hot and single?

No, I'm old, fat, and married.

[birdy219]

I did a little research on the great LA/mavs rivalry.
Since one of you accused me of not watching games, I wanted to know head to head victories in the regular season and playoffs.

la vs. mavs. regular season victories. 95-31 LA

la vs. spurs regular season victories 71-70 LA

The mavs haven't met the lakers in the playoffs since 1988 and judging from your responses to my post; many of you weren't even born then to remember it.


I think we know who the lakers would rather play in the playoffs.

[sefant77]

Wow, such childish rudeness. I didn't mean to offend anybody by giving my opinion. I am not a he first off and I probably watch more NBA than a lot of you name callers. I just don't get the insults. It's not like the Spurs or Mavs won the championship last year. I was saying that it will be difficult to beat the lakers in LA. The Spurs have done it before. Have the mavs beaten them in the playoffs? I'm not talking about a regular season game here or there. geez

blabla, u told the Lakers intimidate the crap out of the Mavs what isnt true anymore. They have of course respect but they got the players to finally match up well with them. So no, they wont be intimidated playing them in the playoffs.

And im not saying the Mavs will beat them. They have the players to beat them and they wont be scared or intimidated

[birdy219]

95-31

Numbers don't lie. I didn't make it up. Look it up and get back to me.

I call that margin of victory......... intimidation.

So, you think the mavs will sweep the lakers, spurs, celtics, heat, or bulls because of your teams total dominance in the league.

I think that your team has won some games against the best of the league and you guys are getting a little full of yourselves. You remind me of cowboy fans; win one big game and they are going to the Superbowl.

[jjktkk]

95-31

Numbers don't lie. I didn't make it up. Look it up and get back to me.

I call that margin of victory......... intimidation.

So, you think the mavs will sweep the lakers, spurs, celtics, heat, or bulls because of your teams total dominance in the league.

I think that your team has won some games against the best of the league and you guys are getting a little full of yourselves. You remind me of cowboy fans; win one big game and they are going to the Superbowl.

Birdy dropping bombs on mav fans. Seriously though the Mavs are gonna be a tough out in the playoffs. Much better defenders than in years past.

[badfish22]

Maybe watch more basketball.

Mavs won last season in LA, they won this season against healthy Lakers without Butler, Roddy and with Dirk playing on one leg.

Bryant played really poor against the Mavs since they got Marion. They also got Stevenson. So its not anyway that Kobe can go berserk against trash like Wright, Griffin or having Terry defending them.

They got also the size and with Chandler the mobility on the center spot that lacked them with Damp. And in the last game Chandler didnt pick up a single foul in 28min.

birdy getting his packed in

[Greg Oden]

I think that your team has won some games against the best of the league and you guys are getting a little full of yourselves. You remind me of cowboy fans; win one big game and they are going to the Superbowl.

I don't think your re ed ass can grasp this concept but the games they've "won against the best of the league" are a lot more important this season than their 95-31 ALL-TIME recored vs LA.

[badfish22]

No, I'm fat

shocker.

[jjktkk]

birdy getting his packed in

Hes a she.

[badfish22]

Hes a she.

Should of seen that coming. Her argument techniques should have been a giveaway.

[awktalk]

No, I'm old, fat, and married.

Happily?

[jjktkk]

Happily?

Spurstalk online dating forum.

[badfish22]

Spurstalk online dating forum.

crofl we should get TDMVPDPOY in here. Hes always charming the ladies.

[birdy219]

Should of seen that coming. Her argument techniques should have been a giveaway.

And your rude insults are a dead giveaway of your intelligence quotient as well.

[Greg Oden]

And your rude insults are a dead giveaway of your intelligence quotient as well.

Yeah, dream on little man. I said it before recently, I'll say it again. I go to a board and contribute and end up getting accepted. Then, dumbasses like you try and knock me off my so-called pedestal. I end up getting in fights and just move on, and that's what I am doing here.

I don't care what you think, I don't care what you type in response to this, because I am never coming back to this board.

I owned you pretty badly already when you claimed you started the collusion stuff about this trade. Did I rub it in? no. Anyone with common sense knows I am right here.

Prune my account, ban me and my IP address, I don't give a rats ass. Let the true fans of this board see how ing biased you guys are towards anyone that even likes the Lakers. You let this bitterness get in the way of being a great board. I used to think you were, but when the site owner rags on decent people, it's not. The place has ceased to be fun for me. To the friends I made here, sorry it has to end this way, I enjoyed you all and what you had to say.

What's this thread about? It's about the Lakers are now better than the Spurs. We made a good deal and passed you up, that's what it's all about.

I consider you have done me a favor, I encourage all other Laker fans to just pack up and leave this place as well. We know we are the better team now, and we will prove it again this year. Let the Spurs fans dream on in peace, and argue amongst themselves.

Are my feelings hurt? No, I can man up to anything. I came here to see the other point of view on basketball. All I see are children.

[Axe Murderer]

95-31

Numbers don't lie. I didn't make it up. Look it up and get back to me.

I call that margin of victory......... intimidation.

So, you think the mavs will sweep the lakers, spurs, celtics, heat, or bulls because of your teams total dominance in the league.

I think that your team has won some games against the best of the league and you guys are getting a little full of yourselves. You remind me of cowboy fans; win one big game and they are going to the Superbowl.

Going through my worst breakup right now. My ex left me 3.5 months ago.

We started dating October 2009, when I was 31 and she had just turned 30. She told me at the beginning that most of her relationships were short-term, just a few months, because the guys would annoy her and she had only two previous relationships that lasted as long as a year. Her background is that her biological father abandoned her mom when she was pregnant and told her mom to get an abortion. She was raised by her mom and stepdad and she said that they would fight all the time over her. Her stepdad is who she considers her real father, but she even expressed some resentment about him when we were together ("He'll come up to Dallas and Fort Worth to go to the gun show, but he won't come up to take me to dinner.")

Anyways we hit it off, had a great connection and chemistry, similar values, goals in life. We started talking marriage. I have a card from her from last Valentine's Day where she writes "I have always been wondering when God would bring my future husband into my life and now I've found him. I know I will succeed in life with you as my husband by my side." She sat her parents down and told them I was The One and I was different from all the other guys she'd ever dated. She told me throughout the time we were together that it was the best relationship she'd ever been in. She even introduced me to her biological father, something she had never done with any guy she had ever dated before. Her parents wanted to meet mine.

Six weeks before she dumped me she was emailing me suggestions for wedding venues. A month before she dumped me she reminded me that her parents really wanted to meet mine and we needed to arrange a dinner to make that happen. Five days before she dumped me she made a comment in an email about what kind of ring she wanted.

Last fall we were supposed to go to four weddings, all for her friends/family. We had already been to one. The last time I ever hung out with her was Thursday, October 14th at her apartment. When I got there, I told her I had secured a job interview for Sunday, October 17th for a second job to pay for the ring. That night while I was hanging out with her my mom called. My dad had driven home drunk from work and crashed his truck into her car in the driveway, totalling both vehicles. I left my ex there to help my mom take him to a rehab facility.

So the next Saturday, October 16th, we were supposed to go to another wedding for her friend, and I had let my mom borrow my car since my dad had wrecked both of theirs. My ex texts me at nine in the morning asking to come over. The plan was for me to take the TRE train to Arlington so she could pick me up and then we would go to the wedding together.

I thought it was weird that she wanted to come over so early, so I texted her back and said "We have several hours to kill before the wedding, what do you want to do?" And she texts back "I'll be there in 30 and we can talk." So that got my radar up immediately and I called her and she didn't answer. I called again and she didn't pick up. So when she got to my place I pretty much knew what she was about to do.

Remember how I said she had never been with a guy longer than a year? This was exactly two weeks shy of our first anniversary. She says she doesn't feel like she can love me the way I want to be loved and need to be loved. I tell her I don't feel neglected by her. She says when I give her compliments and show her affection, she doesn't feel like that person on the inside. She says she's never been in a relationship longer than a year and she always does this. She says she doesn't want to waste anymore of my time and make me go to weddings I don't want to go to and don't have to go to. I tell her that I never resented having to go to weddings with her, I just loved being with her, and I didn't care what we did. After about 15 minutes she got up and left. I missed a couple red flags before she broke up with me. The last month she was a little distant, so I guess she was detaching. She made a very weird comment a few weeks before breaking up about how she wanted to go to heaven now. I was like "What the ? Don't you mean you want to go to heaven when you die? What about our future together? You're not looking forward to that?" And she says don't worry, I'm not suicidal, I'd just rather be there now. There were also a few other occasions where she said she wished Jesus would come back already. She also made a comment that was a precursor to when she broke up with me and she said she couldn't love me the exact same way that I loved her and I needed to be okay with that. Since up to this time we had both been very happy with each other, I thought she was talking about different loving styles and was like "Sure, no problem."

I never called, texted, emailed, IM'd, showed up at her apt or job, sought out her friends or family. The only two gestures I made post breakup were to send her flowers and I wrote her a snail letter. The snail letter basically said that I respected her decision, but that I thought what we had together was worth trying to save and that I wanted to try couples counseling. And if she didn't want to do that, then we couldn't be friends or remain in touch.

Her response to that final letter was to maintain 2.5 months of radio silence and then she emailed me during funeral preparations for my grandfather to ask for her bike back. She didn't know about my grandfather when she wrote but it's something she should have taken care of when she broke up with me.

It was sad and weird seeing her again. The whole encounter lasted four minutes. I could tell she was genuinely glad to see me, but it felt like there was this invisible plane between us. I didn't want to inquire about what she was currently up to and risk info I wouldn't want to hear, nor could I bring up the past without pissing her off. I figured that whining and begging to get back together, or being hateful and spiteful (even if she deserves it) gets their conscience off the hook and eases their guilt, so I played it dignified. After I loaded the bike in her vehicle, I said "I just want to say take care of yourself, I wish you well, I will always care about you, and thank you for letting me be a part of your life." And she said "Aww thank you" and then I told her goodbye and walked back to my apt.

I feel a little better these days, not so much sad anymore, but just really angry and frustrated about the whole situation. Angry at her for how she handled things. Frustrated that I can't do anything about it. Intellectually I understand that I was spared even worse pain in the future by her ending things now, since one of three things would have happened: her calling things off between formally getting engaged and the wedding, getting divorced, or being in a marriage with somebody that only allows for so much intimacy and connection and puts up emotional walls. But emotionally it's hard to accept that. Most breakups there is some sort of underlying logic to what is occurring, and that didn't happen here. And she was very immature and cruel in her refusal to communicate. And usually when a relationship ends, it's been going downhill for a while. Things were still very, very good. And then there were the plans and commitment she made that she was unable and unwilling to follow through on. Most people I talk to say that these are commitment/intimacy/abandonment/daddy issues and I'm better off. But man is it hard to emotionally accept that. All you remember is that the relationship itself was grounded and stable, full of love, almost no drama or conflict, and how could somebody walk away from that?

She discarded me like a piece of garbage, and abandoned me when I needed her the most after what happened with my dad. It's not normal to so quickly go from "I love you, I want to marry you, you're the best I've ever had" (and mean it) to wanting me out of your life. The whole thing has been a huge mind . Three and a half months on I feel a little better, but I'm not there yet.