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You know, I think that is maybe the key to us losing to the Mavs the past few years. Now that Fin is gone, it opens up the floor for our other talented young players.
bonner first. i dont care what anybody says, bonner did very well against dirk in the playoffs last year. bonner, then antonio, a little tim, some RJ, maybe bogans or hill but i doubt it. they will have their hands full with terry/butler
You know, I think that is maybe the key to us losing to the Mavs the past few years. Now that Fin is gone, it opens up the floor for our other talented young players.
no youre not. you have a good memory. bonner has defended dirk extremely well the past two years
Dirk taking a backseat and watching Brandon Bass and JJ Barea rape the Spurs doesn't equate to Bonner holding Dirk well at all.
Does it matter? He'll fall off after every shot like somebody gunned him down from the stands... 95% of the refs will happily blow the whistle, specially in Dallas...
We would do better in focusing on the other guys. No open threes for Kidd, keep making the playoffs as uneventful as always for Butler and Haywood, force Marion into a 3 point chucker like his Phoenix days. We'll be ok if we manage to do that.
I'd like to rebound the ball though. Dice can do a decent job on him, and I would even trot RJ on him. The problem is that whoever guards him will get loaded with fouls.
I hope if Hill and parker are guarding Dirk it is only incidentally because of a switch out or cheating off their man for a double. McDyess & Bonner will cover Dirk for the majority of minutes with some doubling. Jefferson if Dallas goes "big". I wouldn't be surprised to see a little Bogans there and Duncan will help in the paint.
The key is too play him physically. If the refs don't throw him a party at the free throw line, Dirk gets rattled pretty easily. We can't double him for a whole game, but if he gets hot we can shut him down and hope he either can't find his shooters and/or they aren't hitting.
Its quite comical how 2nd nature it is for us to talk about how the refs baby dirk. It still pisses me off, but yeah I kinda just accepted it too.
Oddly enough, I'd love to see the stats of when Dirk has Parker on him. I always remember Dirk hitting a much lower percentage with Parker of all people on him, though I don't know how big the sample size would be.
Who the refs are and how they call the game will dictate who and how we play dirk.
I hate that IF the spurs play the mavs, the refs are gonna play a vital role in the outcome
Sounds like Pop's tactic on Nash and Amare ... let both score and let the rest of the team go cold ...
Ideally you want to make him work hard on the other end. Unfortunately neither Bonner or Dice will make him do that.
I was thinking that too. It seems like Dirk always settles for 20-22 ft. fadeaway jump shots when Parker gets switched onto him, and he usually misses them.
I have to go with my gut instict and say that I do believe Pop would use Bonner on Nowitzski. It's too hard for me to imagine that Popovich would make Old-Man-Dice chase Dirk around the perimeter with a sore knee.
Last edited by G-Dawgg; 04-14-2010 at 07:39 AM.
The only thing I don't want to see is George Hill trying guard Dirk.
I like Bogans on Dirk, the problem is that a matchup like that basically forces a small ball lineup. But Dirk has problems with smaller defenders and Bogans will rough him up all night.
Start and finish with Dice, but give Bogans some run at him in the second and third.
mahinmi and blair wont be able to get within 5 feet of dirk without fouling. just let dirk get his and focus on the rest of their guards. on the other end, tim, manu, tony and RJ should all try and attack dirk since bonner/dyess wont make him work much if at all.
Whoever those people are in your avatar are 2 of the ugliest people I've ever had the misfortune of looking at. I think I'll put you on ignore now so I don't have to see that again.
Does anyone pay attention to Dice underneath the basket on the offensive end? He muscles in about 2 out of 3 plays. Dirk will either let him have them or have to work hard to keep him off the boards.
our strategy might be to shut everyone else down. dirk is gonna eat us alive anyway.
lol citing one game.
Do you have a brain? You realize that the Spurs are going to let Nowitzki get his, they just want to make him work for it, right? Of course no one is going to stop Dirk, just like no one is going to stop Ginobili/Hill/Parker. The 9-27 and 10-28 shooting performances came at the hands of Bonner's defense.
what???
except for the fact that no one is able to guard Kidd, Terry, Barea, Beaubois, or Butler straight up.
putting bonner on Dirk is like playing Dirk in shootaround.
lololololol
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