Should Cuban blow the Mavs up if they lose to Portland?

[djohn2oo8]

Just get Dirk some real help, but at he same time he needs to demand the damn ball when the game is on the line

[ElNono]

Keeping the washed up three sure worked out for the Spurs...

Not everybody can trade Kwame Brown and Javaris Critterton for Pau Gasol...

[Harry Callahan]

Not everybody can trade Kwame Brown and Javaris Critterton for Pau Gasol...

21 bags is probably one of the T-Shirt Laker fans that pollute the great state of Texas. It possibly lives at home. Likely jobless.

[DMC]

no need to blow it up....If you need toughness and scoring, then acquire Stephen Jackson. Just find a way to not make the bench a liability. Trade Barea for a bag of chips if you have to.

Stephen is not going to make the Mavericks a championship team. They need another legit big. Dirk doesn't play the role a big normally plays.

[Kyle Orton]

I miss the 2003 Mavs when they moved the ball and Dirk was just their best shooter. If you could get that team to play defense, they'd probably have 2-3 les by now.

gr8 post bro. If the 2006-present Dirk Nowitzki who shoots well above 50%, has much better shot selection and is one of the NBA's best iso scorers couldn't win a championship, the 2003 Dirk who shot below 50% and chucked 5 threes a game would have definitely won a le.

[Axe Murderer]

The Mavs aren't losing to Portland so it's irrelelvant, but hypothetically speaking, the answer is no.

Why should they blow it up? Dirk is still playing at a high level so you just hope that Cuban becomes unre ed and trades Roddy Beaubois for someone that can help right away before the window closes.

[DJ Mbenga]

they always have the untradable french allah

[LkrFan]

Cuban turned down Dirk for Shaq and later Dirk for Kobe

Link? I guarantee you that your statement is bull . MK openly said he would trade Shaq but also openly stated that he would NOT trade Kobe.

And why would he trade the best SG in the league for the 4th best SG? That doesn't make sense. Oh, I get it. You're joking!

[Ghazi]

That's why Cuban should blow it up, he refuses to actually go all in. A team should either be building for the future or trying to get as good as possible as soon as possible to contend. No in-betweens. If Cuban thought that Beaubois and his 15 minutes per game were worth more than someone who could be helping the Mavs right now, then the Mavs are a rebuilding team. If they were a contending team, they would have made a deadline deal as they clearly weren't a team capable of contending with the roster they had at the trade deadline.

In my humble viewpoints there wasn't a trade out there that puts the Mavs over the top... Gerald Wallace wouldn't allow us to beat the Lakers.

Maybe Iguodala? Was he available?

In this league, it usually requires 2 all-NBA talents to win a le... Pierce/Garnett, Kobe/Gasol, Shaq/Kobe, Duncan/Ginobili/Parker, Jordan/Pippen, Amare/Nash, ( )... Mavs are stuck w/ 1 w/ seemingly no way to acquire another.

I think the FO has done an admirable job w/ the Marion/Butler/Chandler trades... remember 2 years ago this team was giving guys like Devean George/Antoine Wright/Gerald Green minutes... they've improved their talent pretty good, although still not a true threat to win it all.

[Ghazi]

add Wade/Lebron to the 2 all-NBA caliber list... they're bound to win a le at some point.

[davethedope]

I would move the team to Seattle if they lose this series.

[Darrin]

I would move the team to Seattle if they lose this series.

Too close to Portland.

[Greg Oden]

[Greg Oden]

I would move the team to Seattle if they lose this series.

gr8 post a from a fan who's team gets swept whenever they're relevant.