Do the Mavs Have Any Weaknesses????

[mabber]

mabber- When Shaquille is healthy & he starts swatting power forwards like little bugs...He is a problem for any team...He certainly showed that against Dirk last year....

Mourning was much more effective against the Mavs than Shaq was. Shaq's contribution was that the Mavs doubled him at times and he passed to Wade which resulted in Wade going to the free throw line

[u2sarajevo]

Do the Mavs have weaknesses? What team doesn't.

What bothers me the most is that this team seems to lack killer instinct. When we get up by a bunch it's not certain that the game is over.... pretty much ever so far this season. Like the Heat game... If that team had beaten us bad things would happen. Pathetic to say because the Spurs are vastly superior but I can imagine them having the mental edge over us like the Spurs did. And that is a weakness.

And last year, the lucky Manu bail out that allowed the Mavericks to go to the WCF.... We were up 3-1 in that series. A team with a killler instinct would have smelled blood and finished the job quickly.

I do like our team in Game 7's though.... but it shouldn't get that far alot of the time.

[Supergirl]

Lack of mental toughness, which leads them to doing things like folding against the Heat when they should have won (Spurs would have beat the Heat, and were 1 possession away from being there, and have the mental toughness needed to win a championship)

I think Josh Howard may have that toughness, and that may be enough to get them a championship, but I KNOW FOR SURE Dirk doesn't have it. If he did, it would have showed already. Maybe Devin Harris has it too, but that's about it for who has mental toughness on the Mavs. The rest (Dirk, Stack, Dampier, etc) all just either fade or settle for bad jump shots when the going gets tough.

It may or may not be enough for them to win. But also, the Mavs have been incredibly lucky and not survived many injuries so far this season, unlike almost all the other teams. We'll see if they can keep that up.

It's not even All Star break. I'm not ready to crown the Mavs yet. My money's still on the Spurs in another 7 game series, and frankly, the Lakers scare me more, because I think Kobe playing well and Jackson coaching is a lot scarier than anything the Mavs have to offer.

[mabber]

Lack of mental toughness, which leads them to doing things like folding against the Heat when they should have won (Spurs would have beat the Heat, and were 1 possession away from being there, and have the mental toughness needed to win a championship)

I think Josh Howard may have that toughness, and that may be enough to get them a championship, but I KNOW FOR SURE Dirk doesn't have it. If he did, it would have showed already. Maybe Devin Harris has it too, but that's about it for who has mental toughness on the Mavs. The rest (Dirk, Stack, Dampier, etc) all just either fade or settle for bad jump shots when the going gets tough.

It may or may not be enough for them to win. But also, the Mavs have been incredibly lucky and not survived many injuries so far this season, unlike almost all the other teams. We'll see if they can keep that up.

It's not even All Star break. I'm not ready to crown the Mavs yet. My money's still on the Spurs in another 7 game series, and frankly, the Lakers scare me more, because I think Kobe playing well and Jackson coaching is a lot scarier than anything the Mavs have to offer.

I'm just happy Dirk had the mental toughness to complete that 3-point play against the Spurs in game 7 last year. Maybe he'll do a little better this year

Yeah, I'm sure most of the Spur's players and Spur's fans would much rather play Dallas than the Lakers in the playoffs

[fitzgerald]

Supergirl, you aren't serious are you? The lakers scare you more than Dallas? You lost all credibility with that post.

[Islymore]

yeah i agree... Spurs... scared of... the LAKERS?? Just because Kobe is playin well as of late and involving the team more doesn't mean that Kobe can't be contained or stiffled. *is that spelled right? hmm.. oh well* I dunno Supergirl... i dunno. I doubt the Spurs get too nervous when it comes time to playing the Lakers...

[Bob Lanier]

The Lakers should scare the Spurs more than Dallas. Not too much more, but they do have certain matchup advantages. Phil Jackson is far and away the best coach in the game; Kwame Brown is a far better post defender against Duncan than anyone the Mavs could throw at him; and there's basically no one on the Spurs roster who can cover Lamar Odom.

That's true of Dirk Nowitzki as well, but I'd rather take my chances with Bruce Bowen guarding Josh Howard or Terry and Elson desperately trying to guard Nowitzki than Bowen desperately trying to guard Bryant and Elson desperately trying to guard Odom.

Plus, the Lakers don't have Jerry Chokehouse on the floor at the end of games.

[Islymore]

Choke he might... but he sure can produce when erybody else is playin lousy... sometimes he comes thru right when we need him to. i'm not Caveman's greatest fan... but I will take him.

[dirk4mvp]

Stack is the reason the mavs won sunday when the whole team started playing ty ball.

[Bob Lanier]

Stack has always played big in Sunday afternoon games in January.

[mabber]

Stack has always played big in Sunday afternoon games in January.

I do recall him abusing Barry a bunch of times during the playoff series vs. the Spurs so you can add that he plays big vs. one-dimensional white guys in May as well.

[The_Game]

wait so Dallas don't have mental toughness? then how did the spurs lose the series to them? i also don't buy the "spurs would of beat miami" we don't know that...spurs would of likely got screwed by the refs as well.

If any team that has been critised as a team with no toughness it's the spurs but we still won a two les in recent times. mental toughness can be used in many ways.

dallas lost that series to the heat because of lack of experience, getting over confidence and having to deal with a great guard who was unstoppable and got every call one could get.

mavs should of beat the heat but all losses they had were last second shots or close to it. Miami had so much experience on their team. that was the difference to me.