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Alot depends on how Dirk comes out after his supreme chokejob
it is not good that bowen will guard dirk, you need a big guy to guard him because dirk make his damage with his jump shot and that bowen can't prevent because he is short.
Alot depends on how Dirk comes out after his supreme chokejob
It depends w/c Spurs team show up.. if its the first half of the season and the Spurs are working out the kinks in their game, then Mavs are favored. But if its the Spurs team that finished the regular season and cruised thru the playoffs on the way to their 4th championship, then Mavs better watch out. I don't think he roster will be an issue and if anything, then the Udoka acquisition has some interesting implications and will make the Spurs even tougher.
A huge difference between the current spurs squad and the 06 squad is in rebounding. The 06 squad was crap against the Mavs, and they weren't to great against Sacto either, letting Bonzi get all those off rebs. 1 or 2 extra defensive boards and the Spurs could have beaten the Mavs in 6.
This years squad outrebounded the Jazz in 3 out of 5 games and the Cavs in 3 out of 4, both very good rebounding squads. There's no use playing good D if you just give up an off reb and your opposition gets another 24s. This in my mind has been a major problem with the Spurs teams since the Admiral retired, but hopefully one they have fixed.
One more thing that really impressed me about Bruce was the number of rebounds he collected in the playoffs.
spurs in 6...i agree that the addition of udoka will ease the burden on bowen to focus on nowitzki and get udoka to shadow josh howard...
when talking about Scola,Iīm talking about a player who did belong to us,+was given to a Division rival,itīs has to do with the Spurs future playoff seed all day.
But talking about the Cavs has nothing to do with our division rivals,anless theyīre(Cavs) moving somewhere in the midwest next season
Re: Can the Spurs beat the Mavs.with the current roster?
I thought this was an old post & hadda refresh my browser ....
Mavs had made progress last year but its back to the drawing board against the spurs.....Maybe if timmy & gino get health prollems again...like someone said....SPURS outREBOUND they opponents and we're ok.
Everyone is underestimating the effect that winning MVP by Parker will have on his confidence + per his European performance he has also retained his outside shooting.
Mavs, as constructed, have not beat a healthy Spurs team in any series (Duncan was playing on bad ankles) and will not.
Take the first four words of that sentence and you've pretty much summed up Spursdynasty in a nuts .Guess he didn't think that one through enough.
This is a joke. Duncan's ankle were not any worse off than Dirk's ankle's are in every game he plays in. Duncan played every game of that series and averaged about 39-40 minutes.
Look i'm not going to say that the Mavs will def beat the Spurs like they have been over the last 2 years or so because the Spurs are great.
But don't come in here with this crap like the Spurs would have won the games if not for Timmy's ankle. That is crap. He played just about as good as he could have played and as many minutes as he would have normally played.
But the Mavs match up better with the Spurs over the last 2 years than ever before. I think the Mavs have won 7 of the last 11 and 9 of the last 15? something like that.
So odds are the Mavs would win a 7 game series 4 to 3. But would it surprise me if either team won 4 to 2..........no. It's 2 great teams that always play great agaisnt each other.
All the studs play great so the key for me is how well will Devin Harris play and how much will age effect Horry, Fin, Bowen etc.
Bottom line is that it is a 4-7 point game either way almost every time.
IMO, it is the greatest series that could be played every year for the last 2-3 years. It's only too bad it can't be for the Finals.
Duncan was useless in overtime in game 7. Worn out, depleted, and Diop was fresh. I will always believe it would have gone differently if Duncan had something left in the tank that OT, and playing all season on planter faciitis made a difference in what he had left.
Yes, his minutes were up in the playoffs, they always are. And he had some great games. But he had nothing left for a game 7 OT.
On his home court, as defending Champs, he gave it all he had. , he took an IV of fluids before he talked to the press.
Had his ankles been healthy that season it would never have come down to OT, and if it did he would have made a difference.
a big assumption would be that the mavs get out of the 1st round this time
The greater question is, have the Mavs ever beat the Spurs without help from the league (shading).
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