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That's like the very first smart and non-homer thing you've ever said. Congratulations.
The Spurs are probably a decent backup PG and one trade away. If they play their very best, and I mean Tim has to put up 30/12, along with Manu putting up 25/6 and Tony with 24/8...we can beat them. Phoenix right now has the best chance, and a healthy Rockets team. No one in the East can beat Dallas.
That's like the very first smart and non-homer thing you've ever said. Congratulations.
I wasn't dissing their le that year, I'd be happy with a le regardless of the cir stances regarding other teams.
sorry, dude, but people tend to apply asterisks to games, especially championships, won that way.
Of course there will be thoughts of losing again during tough times during the playoffs, but usually teams learn from losing in the playoffs more than anything. I'm blown away at how motivated this team is this season. They're winning games they have no business winning just out of sheer determination.
Obviously they do, but a championship with an asterisk is better than no championship at all IMO.
I am sorry but regular season games arent going to sell me yet. Im waiting till the 2nd/3rd round of the playoffs before I see this teams true colors. Those flashback moments wont come into effect until then. Then when that time happens lets see how we take it. Dont get me wrong I love seeing how this team is playing and all but the Pistons were doing so great last year and look at how that ended up. I do also believe that this team can get over that mental hump but it wont be known for sure till May.
well you had me until i saw your signature.I am sorry but regular season games arent going to sell me yet. Im waiting till the 2nd/3rd round of the playoffs before I see this teams true colors. Those flashback moments wont come into effect until then. Then when that time happens lets see how we take it. Dont get me wrong I love seeing how this team is playing and all but the Pistons were doing so great last year and look at how that ended up. I do also believe that this team can get over that mental hump but it wont be known for sure till May.
At this point in the season Dallas is the best team in the league hands down. regarding the question of the thread anything can happen and if my memory serves me correctly the past few seasons the pundits have claimed that certain teams were locks to win le and they failed..last year it was the spurs (pre-season when they picked up Nick V and Finley) or pistons (winning 70 games and played best ball throughout season), the prior year it was the lakers..etc..I'm not saying that this will happen this year but at this point Dallas is playing way above everyone else. Sorry Suns fans until your team learns to defend you will not beat Dallas or the Spurs in a 7 game series..
Given the fact that the Suns have the highest point differential in the league (+8.51), are holding opponents to about the same FG% as Dallas and San Antonio every night (.450), have the 2nd best opponents' 3PT% (.324), and are 9th in the league in points per 100 possessions (105.6), I'd say the Suns can play defense.
I haven't seen any difference in the 6-7 games I've seen them play. That's not enough games to make a good judgement, I know. As far as those defensive stats, I'm guessing it's just shooters on other teams getting tired and missing their shots cuz they're not used to shooting that much
Regardless, it won't matter until they show they can make stops late in playoff games vs. the other good teams. If they can do that and they win it all then I'll be the first to say I was wrong.
Hey they may this year but until they do it against the Spurs or mavs in the playoffs I will stand by my opinion.
You and I both know that's a lie.
Everyone says stuff like that, but no one ever owns up to it.
It's becoming more and more evident in every sport that the regular season doesn't mean much. Basketball - Spurs and Detroit win 60+ last year and neither reach the finals. Football - Colts last couple of years and Chargers this year. Baseball - White Sox last year and Cardinals this year. When was the last time the best regular season team in a major US sport actually won the championship??
Yes, because he's usually a troll
The Mavs are one loss away from making the Suns the top team in the NBA according to record. If/when that happens does that increase our chances of winning the le? I agree that regular season is only good for playoff positioning. But I will not concede that if you are the team with the best record your chances are diminished to win it all.
Yeah I also disagree. I've seen them play alot of games this year, and while their defense is better I still don't think it's Championship caliber. They still havn't really played anybody yet, so there defense is still suspect.
Same goes for Dirk, jho and jet. Besides last year's playoffs, your "big" 3 played pretty good, and you still lost. What else do you want Duncan to do ? average 50/20/10 ? he was killing our bigs. Ginobili and jho pretty much canceled themselves out and devin and jet together were massively outplaying parkerall series long.Tim has to put up 30/12, along with Manu putting up 25/6 and Tony with 24/8
While I do believe it is WAAAAAYYY to early to say we're going to win it all, I do like our chances, specially against a spurs team that is obviously older, slower and up until now, hasn't played the kind of defense that they are used to and I don't believe your defense can stop the Dallas attack anymore. I think we just have too many weapons at the moment... dirk, j-ho, devin, jet, stack, (george can get us 15+ a night if he's on his game), etc. Not to mention our defense has gotten A LOT better since last year.
I believe you need to make a trade to bring another scoring punch/weapon to keep up with all the scorers Dallas has... this season is far from over though. Maybe SA is planning on making a trade right now ?, you never know. At least not until the trade deadline.
As far as Phoenix goes: Until they defend and rebound they won't do jack . Maybe they'll get another "free-ride" (yes that's what it's called when you have to play the two LA teams instead of the TX teams) to the Conference finals, but they will never win a le with that style. Us mavs fans can tell you that from experience with the " -days" also known as the "nellie era". Great regular seasons, a lot of fun to watch = never won anything and we still had the most overrated player in the NBA playing the point for that team.
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Don't let those defensive stats fool you. As a reference look at the Mavs's 02-03 season when we went to the Conference Finals vs. SA. We played small ball also and were known as "Allas" around the league...
http://www.nba.com/mavericks/stats/2002/index.html
You want to compare point differentials and all that cute stuff ?, let's do it..
Mavs '02 vs. Suns '06
Point Differential: 7.8 vs. 8.51
Defensive FG: . 438 vs. .450
Defensive 3pt. %: .340 vs. .324
Rebounding differential: -3.4 vs. -2.6
Defensive RPG: 31.0 vs. 32.5
Offensive RPG: 11.1 vs. 8.5
Steals per game: 6.7 vs. 6.8
Blocks per game: 3.9 vs. 4.9 --> AND we played Bradley and LaFrentz at Center, not Amare Stoudemire...
As you can see, all your cute stats don't mean anything. In fact they are rather useless. If the mavericks played defense so great that season, show me the rings, where are they ?. Don't be fooled by small ball, it's fun and deceiving (yeah we also thought we were champs back in '02 like you do now) but it gets you nowhere in the playoffs.
Not to mention that dallas can play small ball like Phoenix can and still keep up. We don't lack scorers as I've said before, and while your offense might be slightly better than Dallas's, our defense is A WHOOOLE lot better than yours is.
Did I just hear PWNED....??
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I'm sorry, but comparisons to Nellie-era Mavs are just silly. Do you really think the Nellie-era Mavs are anywhere near as good as D'Antoni-era Suns? Until I see some stats to back it up, I can't take that claim seriously.
I wasn't implying that the team with the best record has diminished chances, but instead implying that having the best record doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to. I was giving examples of recent instances where the team with the better regular season didn't win. I think it speaks more to the parity in all major US sports, and that the team that is playing the best in May and June will win the le. Could be the Mavs, Spurs, Suns, or some other team that comes out of nowhere (Heat last year??). The regular season has been relegated to basically keeping fans interested until the real season starts.
I think the only way the Mavericks lose the big one is if they remain the Dallas Mavericks.
Losing in the conference finals is the best that both had/have ever done. The Mavs had really good regular season records (althought the Spurs were always 1 game better) as well. I'd say that Nash, Dirk & Finley in his prime were as good as this Sun team.
playing 2/3rds of your games against eastern conference teams would be great in trying to reach that mark
i don't think so.
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