Mark Stein talks Kobe and those lil' Mavericks

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

LOL that's a bad troll.

[Findog]

PLEASE trade for Kobe. The play that killed the Spurs over and over in 2006 was Dirk at the top of the key. Howard was willing to play second banana and let that happen and play off it. Kobe never will. He'll turn Dirk into a glorified version of Radmanovic.


You will be...

Well, Shank has a pretty good track record for these sorts of things, but I'll believe Kobe is a Mav when I see it.

[monosylab1k]

Well, my 'unidentified source' says they're going to pursue it pretty heavily and that 'no player is off-limits'. But that doesn't necessarily mean they offered up Dirk. They know that Kobe won't come to Dallas if Dirk isn't here as well. And my person also says it's not a matter of 'if', but 'when' Kobe is a Maverick.

Shank, is there anything new on the Kobe front?

[Findog]

Shank, is there anything new on the Kobe front?

You probably don't put any stock in anything Vecsey says, but FWIW, he says a Kobe to Dallas deal is unlikely:

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...ost?id=2251150

And I'll repeat what I said there: if it's going to happen, for the Mavs anyway, I would think it's now or never. If they trade for Kobe at the deadline, two months is not enough time to develop on-court chemistry for facing Phoenix or San Antonio. You want Kobe to have 82 games here.


"That would not make us any better than they are and would remove two very viable young guys for an older guy with a ridiculous contract and a stained rep," a Mavs official patiently explained. "We won 67 games and got to within two wins of a le without Kobe. That would leave us with no more stuff than he has to work with now and he can't get them past the sixth rung on the Western ladder."

[monosylab1k]

I'm getting to be more okay with just rolling with the team we've got, but I hate hearing that from Mavs official, whoever he is, that's towing the company line.

How many years in a row will the Mavericks run into a "hot team" in the playoffs before they do something about it?

And seriously, how the do you compare Howard/Terry to Kobe? Saying that trade makes us no better than the Lakers is the most ridiculous homer bull I've ever heard in my life.