Wishful thinking playoff scenario--anyone think this can happen?

[Rummpd]

The Mavs don't play nearly as much zone as you suggest, and don't play it as frequently as they did early in the season.

Butler is not the key and never was the key for the Mavs. He was simply a nice 3rd/4th option. The key will be the combo of JET and Roddy, and whether they can combine to give scoring punches on a nightly basis.

Quit talking about the Mavs as if you know about them, because you clearly don't know about them, nor do you know about your own team, or know about basketball, period.

lol thinking a short 10-game stretch of late season basketball will magically morph Splitter into a seasoned playoff veteran that will for the first time in his career contribute to his team winning a game, when he has been a worthless sack of all through the regular season and cant even get off the bench in favor of a guy with no ACLs (or MCLs? cant remember) or a 50 year old undersized bigman with a vagina on his ing forehead.

You obviously are soft skinned but here is a little eduction for the Mavs fans:

Fact: 10 games "will not transform" Splitter he is a proven Euro star and MVP of a Spanish League and has played numerous times against top flight compe ion. His upside is better than anyone on the Mavs period.
Fact: Point differential is historically the biggest predictor of playoff and championship success but why let the facts stand in the way of the Mavs choking more than any top tier team in history at least three times?
Fact: Spurs when healthy and motivated have toyed with the Mavs the last two years including last years playoff and you are trying to tell us losing Caron Butler, a stud NBA player respected by Kobe and the entire league is not a loss? Fact is that unless Butler returns Mavs do not have the lineup or the cred to beat the Spurs or the LAL. Mavs only hope is that the one they are to play somehow gets knocked off.
Fact: Mavs currently have a point differential of 4.34 at least a point lower than the Spurs, Boston, Heat, LAL, and Bulls. Some of that is due to Dirk missing a stretch of games but why the did Chandler and the psuedo depth of the Mavs step up? The fact is that the depth of the Mavs is vastly over-rated and has been exposed.
Fact: Chandler has not really helped the defense and his PER ranks him 5th in the West (3 spots behind Duncan in similar minutes despite Duncan's age). Chandler shoots a good percentage only because his range is so limited. He blocks a PATHETIC 1.1 shots a game, while Duncan at his age is blocking 1.9 and is STILL A MUCH BETTER DEFENDER when it counts. No debate on that period.http://espn.go.com/nba/player/hollin...215/tim-duncan
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/hollin...tyson-chandler
Fact: Spurs defense this year is not as good as previosly but the Mavs remains definetely middle of the road: http://www.nba.com/statistics/sortab...ml?cnf=1&prd=1
Fact: Mavs are an older team than the Spurs and the Spurs are also developing better and younger players - St. Roddy is over-rated. His PER of 14.89 is below the league average and he looks lost out there as much as he contributes.http://espn.go.com/nba/player/_/id/3...rigue-beaubois





Fact expect the over-hyped Mavs to go softly in the night again this year based on the PER, their psuedo-depth, their psuedo improvement on defense and the fantasy that they are a greatly improved team. The facts bluntly speak otherwise.

FACT: Dirk IMO should get serious cred for the MVP for carrying this team this far, he has been that damm good and a bright spot on an otherwise over-hyped team that absolutely crashed without him. At least the Spurs played compe ive against good teams without Duncan.

Fact - next time bring some facts!

[picc84]

Knee drained or not, no neophyte playoff rook like Westbrook was going to get his on mamba.

[Cessation]

If this was the playoffs, all the "injured" spurs could have played. You guys are stretching, it would take a miracle and a complete meltdown for them to lose home court. They've been playing for it all year, no way they it up.

[cobbler]

Doesn't matter how we finish in the west. Who cares how it plays out. Nobody is beating the Lakers in the West no matter the schedule. The only thing that matters is staying in front of the East cost teams for HCA in the finals.