40-7 w/ Dirk/Chandler

[Juan]

Callate el osico gordota

[Fergie The Florists]

Calm your liver, or come down to provi and ill stick my bobos up your auss

[Juan]

Calm your liver, or come down to provi and ill stick my bobos up your auss

how many pesos does a rose like that in your picture cost? gracias.

[Beau]

Calm your liver, or come down to provi and ill stick my bobos up your auss

Every rose has its thorn. Guessing that's not pleasant entering or exiting, eh?

[Rummpd]

Fail = 3.88 point differential not historical the mark of a great team.

[endrity]

Fail = 3.88 point differential not historical the mark of a great team.

It's over 8 the last 25% of the games, and it was a solid +5 for most of the season, until Dirk and Butler went out. And yes, without those two the Mavs are terrible.

[Henke]

Fail = 3.88 point differential not historical the mark of a great team.

With Dirk in the lineup our point differential is like 5,9 IIRC.Pretty solid if you ask me.The season we went to the finals for example it was 6,1.

Also we have played one of the toughest schedules in the league.

This is not like last year when with Dirk healthy all season long we had a point differential of 2,7(although after the Butler/Haywood trade we were better than this).

[Venti Quattro]

Point differential as gauge for a great team

What happened to the we don't care about the regular season spurfans

[Ghazi]

Mavs were undoubtedly better than last year, with Butler healthy.

They have also had some spectacular regular seasons in the past 3 years.

[Ghazi]

it appears we aren't going to give roddy enough slack to develop into what we need from him, at least not this season, and essentially peja for butler was the most re ed swap i think we've made to date. with wallace we would be contenders, now we just have another gaping hole (perimeter defense) on top of our previous gaping hole (lack of another creator, #2 option)

it's just too much to overcome teams just cannot win constructed this way

ghazi we've ALWAYS had streaks like these..just about every regular season over the past decade and it's never once translated into a championship. teams not constructed properly can be talented enough to win ball games in the regular season but will ultimately fold in the playoffs

i repeat the mavs went from contenders to pretenders with hte peja signing..while everyone else was applauding it, and it seemed like a good pickup in the short run at the time, i was nodding my head in disbelief. i knew that he wouldn't be a 10th man, that they'd see him as the "fix" at SF and stand pat..we have a history of "loving our boys in blue"

Monostradamus get the in here

[endrity]

2011 Peja = 2006 KVH??

A lot of fans were skeptical even then, wondering why a team trying to shed the "soft" label would pick up someone like that. Obviously pure shooting is at a premium in the NBA, and just as Killah made some big shots especially in Game 7 against SA, so has Peja this year. He can't play a lot of minutes in this series, or even a Finals against LBJ, but if he plays well in his limited minutes like tonight it's a bonus.

I hope he sticks around for one more year, shooters like that don't come around very often.

[stretch]

2011 Peja = 2006 KVH??

A lot of fans were skeptical even then, wondering why a team trying to shed the "soft" label would pick up someone like that. Obviously pure shooting is at a premium in the NBA, and just as Killah made some big shots especially in Game 7 against SA, so has Peja this year. He can't play a lot of minutes in this series, or even a Finals against LBJ, but if he plays well in his limited minutes like tonight it's a bonus.

I hope he sticks around for one more year, shooters like that don't come around very often.

I've always thought the same thing.

Having Peja in to back Dirk up is almost the same as KVH was doing. Gives the Mavs a scoring punch at PF when Dirk goes out, and still allows them to play a similar style in that they have good floor spacing from the PF position, which makes their offense tougher to guard.

[endrity]

I've always thought the same thing.

Having Peja in to back Dirk up is almost the same as KVH was doing. Gives the Mavs a scoring punch at PF when Dirk goes out, and still allows them to play a similar style in that they have good floor spacing from the PF position, which makes their offense tougher to guard.

There were other more important factors, but replacing KVH with Croshere was a big mistake during the GS series. We got absolutely no spacing on the team, because once Jet was was having a crap series, Stack, Harris and Howard were not the kind to take advantage of the double teams on Dirk. If Van Horn was there to hit a three once in a while, it would have made them much more tentative in swarming Dirk.

[Ghazi]

Mavs fans never cease to amaze. I continue to be amazed at how many people buy into this team season after season, even though they've played basically the same season for ten straight and come up well short of the finish line in all but one and even in that season, they still came up short, just not well short.

When will people accept that no team with Nowitzki as their best player is going to win a championship? It's been made abundantly clear over the past decade. I'm not "trolling" or "hating" or "butthurt", I'm just not going to ignore a decade's worth of evidence just because the Mavs are in the midst of a torrid stretch in their typical fools-gold regular season.

I get that, as a fan, it's tough not to get excited and I'm not trying to put a damper on what they're doing, I'm just being a realist. Why get your hopes up annually? Honestly, I'm surprised you guys aren't like Red Sox fans pre '04 by now. I'm genuinely surprised you're not cynics.

TD 21

[lefty]

TD 21 pwned

[Amarelooms]

lol at the ...not talking about you Ghazi....ya dummy

[frodo]

mavs 3-0 with JJB starting