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Can't wait till Dejuan pushes Duncan's in
Dalembert will be TC
Marion is Marion
Calderon will be Kidd but a better shooter and more mobile
The GOAT PF will be in 2011 form
Monta will give us 22 ppg on 44% shooting and that GOAT/Monta pick and roll will be deadly tbh
The Mav fans will all return as well. It will be a glorious season
Can't wait till Dejuan pushes Duncan's in
No, just, no. Battling Lakers for the 8th seed tbh
you sound like a cowboy fan proclaiming "this is the year" every year.
the mavs caught lightning in a bottle in '11. was a perfect storm, a great run by _irk. but that was then
24-5 before GOAT and butler got injured. We were good all season long. We also managed to win a game 6 on the road with our best player making shots down the stretch and not missing 2 ft layups
you play GTA online yet?
Still waiting to do the first ing race tbh
R* needs to hurry the up it's been 36 hours
i finally got the race to start but while racing my internet connection got ed up. Haven't got it to start since.
How is it? I'm still like 25% through the campaign...trying to not beat it all so quickly
well that's depressing
Not sure about winning the division, with Houston, SA, and Memphis all in there, but they should be better than some people think. If healthy, they should compete for a top 5 seed. They won 41 games and almost made the playoffs last year with a significantly less talented and balanced squad and Dirk missing more than half the season. Dirk for a full healthy year with a much better squad should get to 50 wins.
It wasn't lightning in a bottle at all. It was getting healthy, and making lineup changes that should have been made much sooner. As Lincoln pointed out, major injuries at a bad time really messed things up, then when Roddy B came back and was forced into the starting lineup, which I truly believe was partially Carlisle being sick of people (including Cubes) questioning his resistance to play Roddy, so he was trying to prove a point that he simply wasn't as good as the fans thought. When he began starting, the chemistry got completely destroyed.
Removing French Allah from the lineup, and replacing him with Stevenson made a MASSIVE difference. While I was an over the top Roddy fan at the time, I never liked him starting over Stevenson.
All hail Rick Carlisle, the best coach in the NBA
Props tbh. When I saw you responded to my post, I was expecting a simple "shutup got"
but the 3 point barrage + dirks epic run was lightning in a bottle. Dirk was flawless during the WC playoffs. Untouchable against lakers and skull ed ibaka
They should be a 5-6 seed if healthy. This division is brutal. Just the bigs alone is unbelievably stacked: Duncan/Splitter/Gasol/Zbo/Dwight/Asik/Dirk/Unibrow. Just sick.
Have to say: OKC/SPUR/HOU/GS/MEM with Dallas right in that HOU/GS/MEM mix.
While the aftermath is true, it was lightning in a bottle because Dallas never even really wanted to keep Chandler IMO. They traded for the best named asset they could expecting to make more moves and it just turned out that everything fell into place fit wise. Even having said that, they could have easily lost to the Heat if the Heat didn't meltdown in that Game 2. Great comeback with unbelievable clutch play by the Mavs, but going down 2-0 would have been death.
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3 point barrage? Maybe in that one game against LA, but its not like they were just shooting lights out on 3s all playoffs long. They certainly hit timely 3s, but its not like it was constant fire. They shot 39% as a team from 3 through the playoffs. Take out that one ridiculous game against LA where they hit 20 3's, and they are down around 37% for the playoffs, only 1% higher than their season average. People tend to remember that incredible shooting game (where the Lakers gave up and weren't even playing defense), and Terry hitting that 3 in Lebron's face in game 5, and think that the Mavs were shooting like that the entire playoffs, but they weren't. They just had people step up with big shots at the right time.
And while Dirk was dominant in that run, it was really no different than how much he had dominated the previous 3 playoff runs. The only difference was that his team was stepping up when he needed help, where in the past he was pretty much doing everything on his own. But statistically, he was equally or more dominant basically every playoff run since the Golden State fiasco, when he finally began to develop a more consistent post game to take advantage of smaller quicker defenders. Arguably, his most dominant playoff series ever was against Denver in 09, where he was completely raping them at will. But unfortunately, his starting lineup consisted of Eric Dampier, an injured and mentally destroyed Josh Howard, and Anthony Wright. Not much you can do when your teammates are completely worthless for an entire series, and allowing Carmello to drop 40 a night with incredible efficiency.
forgot to mention clips and denver obviously...
Unfortunately i see us finishing last
Ultimately a major problem this mavs roster faces is a veteran roster with no shot to win the le and no young talent
I think the mavs shot something like 60% from 3 in that entire series
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