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backcourt blew... and Chandler is a big difference
Mainly the same core besides Chandler, what was their downfall mainly last year?
George Hill playing the series of his life?
backcourt blew... and Chandler is a big difference
Manu Ginobili was healthy until Dirk broke his nose, but then it was too little too late
Chandler.
San Antonio is Dallas's kryptonite. The same can be said the other way around. Both teams are very familiar with each other which leads to a compe ive series (when everyone is healthy).
sometimes it's not one team not doing well,just one team(or player as you say playing the game of his life) doing a whole lot better. Such as george. remember dragic? Lakers will remember JJ
and the Spurs will remember Grievis Vazquez
Terry shot horrible that series. 26/69 fg
as did Kidd 14/46 fg
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DAL/2010.html
that scrub got.
- Dampier playing heavy minutes instead of Chandler
- Terry, Marion, Kidd and Barea all sucked ass, whereas this year they showed up
Butler at the 2 guard was a complete failure. Kidd got sick as well. Terry and Barea were awful against the Spurs backcourt. Dampier was useless.
team needed to gel better with Butler and Haywood. Marion still hadn't fully figured his role out as well.
Marion understanding and adjusting to his role this year has been very underrated in the Mavs increased success this season.
A healthy Spur team is a rare thing but gets the job done. When we're banged up it just trickles throughout the team like it did so badly this year. I'd have loved an I35 WCF. Oh, well. It'll be an '06 finals rematch in every sense. Let's see what jackassery Cuban does.
Matchups, matchups, matchups
Oh, and the Spurs haven't gotten better since then.
But, they did age a year like every other team seems to not do year after year after year.........
West > Dirk
This.
Can't believe he said something right finally. Yes, the familiarity of the teams with each other produced a tight series, with the Mavs losing mostly because they were still unsure of what each man's position was.
And the key issue with our alignement was Butler at the 2. There simply wasn't enough speed or outside shooting from him at that position.
Finally coming to your senses...
Chandler makes a huge difference as the Spurs destroyed Heywood and Dampier. I think Duncan would have eaten Chandler's lunch, but Chandler gives this team a defensive presence down low that the centers could not last year.
Tony was able to have his way with Kidd as the Spurs exposed his weakness, his inability to guard young fast point guards. Dallas did a great job of putting him on Durant during many key plays and Kidd played excellet defense. The team played excellent help defense and limited Westbrooks points in the paint, challenging him to shoot pull up jumpers.
Butler took shots away from Dirk and Terry and minutes away from Marion. Spurs own Terry and Berrea played like he was 5'5".
I would have liked to see the teams play this year. I was so confident that the Spurs would win but I think that has changed. Maybe in the first or second round but this Dallas team has a different swagger that we did not see in the first round. They look hungry and as much as I hate Jason Terry I would not mind seeing Dirk hold up the trophy. At least Tim will still have three more than him and four more than James.
They weren't good enough . . .
However, the point is, they went flamed out in first round and made some adjustments the following season and are now in the finals.
Hopefully RC Bufford and Pop are taking notes.
tbh we all were trying to tell less educated basketball fans that guys like TC make a big difference but all we would here back is "They lost Butler from last year, there is no way they are better!!"
You know who you are.
Didn't Damp have something like 0 FG makes in that series? I think he made some points off of free throws, but when your starting center goes for 0% in a series that speaks volumes.
There is a reason that even with the god awful center options the Heat have they haven't even let Damp sniff the floor this post season.
crolf
Mavs traded for Chandler:
lol MavKrewi'm faced drunk so i have no comment right now except for....
great ing move
My take back then:
Even a broken watch is right twice a day DAF :P
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