Ok let's see if the Mavs can avoid choking.
Ok let's see if the Mavs can avoid choking.
why couldnt dirk play like this in GSW back in '07![]()
Don Nelson
Totally different team... horrible matchup.
Dirk is the best player in the West
Better players from Golden State, Terry, Stack and Howard completely disappeared, and Dirk was hurt and had nowhere close to his back to the basket game he has now
NO, Kobe is still better and still a champ as much as I hate that lol.. Dirk is still very good though, one of the best.
tbh if i remember correctly, Howard was the only Mavs player that stepped up in that series. Maybe Devin did but I remember Jho doing work.
Kobe isn't even the best player on his own team, Bby Drew is
Spurs fan who lives in a glass house.....![]()
This type of D will allow you to beat the GSW but in the playoffs it will fail in the first round
yep it was J-Ho, Stack had some moments off the bench but that was the last we saw of the J-Ho we all once loved
tbh yeah devin sucked major ass but J-Ho had this line through the 6 games:
21.3 ppg,9.8 rpg,2.8apg. 51% shooting,38.9% from 3 and 70% from the line.
Ho showed up while no one else did
Howard was a problem then! I remember 06 vs. us he was a big problem too, a bad matchup all around there. Howard was sick for a few years.
yep hats off........
Howard was a in baller from 05-07. That could slash into the paint and get to the line while having a somewhat consistent midrange jumper. He played great defense too but then Smokey kicked in and he became a stepback jumpshooting black hole who was injured year after year. He showed up in the 09 series vs. the Spurs(lol 28 points on a bum ankle) but since then he has reverted back to being a ty basketball player rotting in Washington.
24 point swing
Good things happen when you actually attempt to play defense tbqh,fwiw,yeah i got tats. etc.
Devin went into a s after JRich blocked the out of his attempted layup. JHo was alright, true, but with the attention that they were paying to Dirk the Mavs wings should have had open layup after open layup.
though to be fair, Dirk also wasn't great at passing out of double teams like he is now, plus the Mavs had no off the ball movement at all. more than anything that was Avery's greatest mistake, he turned a once great offensive team into a pure isolation-type plays, straight out of the 90s NBA playbook. When Dirk was being swarmed, the other players had no idea where to go.
I was just talking about the back to back layups they gave up at the end there, but yes... our D sucks too.
Offense was basically iso Dirk in the middle of the floor or on the elbow and let him break down his man. GS sent an extra man on Dirks blindside which ed up the entire offense imo.
+Baron, Sjax,Barnes making every ing 3 pointer.
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