Unless Roddy makes a great leap in the next two months, which is doubtful after what he has shown recently, it really doesn't matter what other do, there simply isn't enough talent on these Mavs to fight against the other elite teams.
I still don't know how Rick is planning to defend Kobe in a possible second round matchup. We employ four PGs, three of them pretty small even by PG standards, in a four man backcourt. Neither of those guys have a chance to defend Kobe to even a small degree. Marion plays a the backup PF position, DeShawn is out of the rotation, and Peja is even more hopeless than the Puerto Rican Burito. We should have gone after Gerald Wallace, the FO made a mistake of judgement here.