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Someone should mention it to the coach that took the centers out during the playoffs and allowed a shooting guard to play power forward.
You know, I still have not been able to grasp the concept of a Mavs fan posting almost 15 posts a day on a Spurs board until I read this:Had to check to see if you were a Spur fan. Almost a first.
Birthday:
June 26, 1990
Biography:
I love to play basketball and watch the Mavericks pwn some ass
Location:
memphis,tenn
Interests:
basketball,eating girls,video games
Let's see... a highly sexualized 16-year old Southern boy who references grown men owning some ass. Yep, he is definitely a page for the House.
Someone should mention it to the coach that took the centers out during the playoffs and allowed a shooting guard to play power forward.
Agreed, but we were sucking at getting rebounds during the regular season too, when Rasho and Nazr were still being allowed to play.
Yeah, but the Spurs won games then. Rebounding is just a stat when you win.
After Cuban went on national TV and bragged about how he changed the NBA, no Mav fan has a ing leg to stand on.
Yea because all mav fans agree with Cuban and have a say in what he does.i guess I just lost all credibility because Mark Cuban happens to be the owner of my favorite team.
I don't see it that way during the playoffs. Not when every posession counts, when five missed defensive rebounds leads to 10 second-chance points for the other team.
And that means nothing when you beat the other team by 12 points.
How many of those Spurs-Mavs games were decided by more than five points?
To which Spurs-Mavs games do you refer? The Spurs lost the playoff series with their centers on the bench and Finley playing PF, while people were apparently expecting a guy considered "old and broken down" to play 45 minutes, defend Dirk, get rebounds and knock people to the ground, while simultaneously managing to score buckets of points. Since we blame the team's toughness, and not the coaching staff's blatant mismanagement of the team, that must have been the expectation.
Exactly. We shouldn't have expected Fin to do all that. Whereas if one of our bigs not named Tim were at least semi-competent, he wouldn't have had to.
I just find this whole thread funny and spectacularly ironic.... that is all.
can't we all just get along...........
:d :d
Refs are to blame not wade.
So why were they semi-competent enough when the Spurs were winning 63 games, but then suddenly Oberto was the choice in the playoffs?
They weren't all that great during the regular season either. Rasho did decent at the beginning of the season then went back to being completely passive, and Nazr played horrible durng the beginning, and did OK towards the end. Matchup problems only gave Pop the excuse he'd been wanting to take them out of the rotation.
11 points, 9 boards and 1.7 blocks from the center position isn't all that great? That's the at ude of someone that took David Robinson for granted for far too long.
Sure looked to me like the Spurs could have used numbers like that during the Mavs series. Since they lost it seems like the strategy wasn't all that sound, but hey, I've only got history on my side and can't rely on a fictionalized account of Dirk scoring 90 points per game against the Spurs' regular lineup.
When the did our centers average those kinds of numbers? Combined maybe, but not individually.
That was the center rotation for about 78 regular season games, and that was the output. That was also what was missing during the playoffs.
That's where we differ then. Even if I was spoiled by Drob, 10 rebounds a game from a 7 footer should not be too much to ask for a starting center.
10 rebounds per game is an All-Star in today's game.
Dwayne Wade is probably my favorite non-Spur NBA player for handing the Mavs their asses and keeping them from the promised land.
LOL. That statement is absolute proof that you are spoiled by Robinson. Five centers in the NBA averaged 10 rebounds per game last year. Getting nine boards per game out of your center rotation when Duncan is pulling down twelve a game is pretty damn good, and it's pretty damn devastating to your team when it disappears in a puff of smoke.
I guess so. Then the thing would be team rebounding. They were killed last year throughout the regular season on the defensive glass. It wasn't there during the season and it wasn't there during the playoffs. They didn't have that problem on '05
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