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Anybody here arguing Dirk is = or > Duncan?
What is with you today? You're better than these mocking strawman tirades.
OKAY! Got em. Should be shipped to me in 2 weeks.
Now let's find out all the times that Tim Duncan scored 8 points on 2 for 13 shooting as his team got the kicked out of them by an 8 seed. I'm sure it's happened to him plenty. I mean if it happened to Dirk once then it must have happened to every other NBA star like 3+ times.
Anybody here arguing Dirk is = or > Duncan?
What is with you today? You're better than these mocking strawman tirades.
Unless your willing to admit that Duncan is more clutch then Dirk ... Which I think that everyone here is willing to do. We are just saying that Dirk has had his moments, both good and bad, and most people would think that its alright to not be great in every game.Now let's find out all the times that Tim Duncan scored 8 points on 2 for 13 shooting as his team got the kicked out of them by an 8 seed. I'm sure it's happened to him plenty. I mean if it happened to Dirk once then it must have happened to every other NBA star like 3+ times.
It is a team sport after all
Oh, and do you even watch your own team? Raja played in Game Five. Do you even realize that Shawn Marion, Mr. All-Defense, always draws the assignment for Dirk? Dirk lit his ass up that night.
The problem in the GS series was not Dirk, it was all about match-ups. Everyone knows this. How does Dirk do when he is forced to play center? He sucks. Thats why we have to centers on the team that can play .. To get Dirk into his comfert zone. Don Nelson knows all about this, having coached Dirk for so long.
Of any team in the League, the Warriors were the VERY LAST team that the Mavs would have wanted to run into, they have not played well against them for some time. GS simply is not a good match-up for the Mavs.
With the Heat .. Wade just took over .. It is that simple .. He saw the oppertunity and took it by the balls.
Did the Mavs loose the series to Heat or did the Heat win? The Heat won. Wade took the series over and would not let go until the Heat won. This is not Dirks fault, the blame would lay in the laps of those guarding (Or rather NOT guarding) him. Buckner, Terry and to a lesser degree Howard. Did Dirk have a subpar series? Absolutly, but this was the reason that we lost, Wade was the reason we lost.
On another thread today mono said Avery deserved the most blame for the GS series, but we're not subjected to endless "Fire Avery!" tirades. Dirk sucked against the Warriors, even given all of the mitigating cir stances, he didn't do his job up to his standards. But he had plenty of "help." Was it Dirk's fault that Terry and Harris couldn't guard Davis and Richardson?The problem in the GS series was not Dirk, it was all about match-ups. Everyone knows this. How does Dirk do when he is forced to play center? He sucks. Thats why we have to centers on the team that can play .. To get Dirk into his comfert zone. Don Nelson knows all about this, having coached Dirk for so long.
I don't think that Avery deserved the blame for GS, Heat maybe, but not GS. He had very few options given what GS was doing. He had to take out his centers and match the small line-up. How the players did in that situation falls more on the players then Coach.
Thats what some people don't seem to understand, teams force other teams to play the way that they want to. You can fight it to a degree, but if one team is going to play its way no matter the cost, then there is not much that another team can do other then adjust.
Against the Spurs, the Mavs force the Spurs to take out their center and play small with us (We are the faster team, this is to our advantage. If they don't go small then the Spurs center would have no-one to guard that would not burn them badly .. Howard or Stackhouse)
When the Mavs ran into the Warriors, they played five players that were athletic and small ... Their biggest player on the floor most of the time would be a SF on the Mavs team. They not only forced the Mavs to go small and remove their center (Our centers are not "offensively gifted") but they also forced Dirk to defend a smaller quicker player as well.
In the same way we force the Spurs to change their defense, the Warriors forced us to change ours. The Warriors were willing to stay small all game long and dare the Mavs to put in our centers to try to punch the Warriors down low ... They couldn't. They forced the Mavs centers to guard SF's out away from the basket ... They couldn't. The Mavs had no choice but to play the Warriors game .... They were better at it then the Mavs were.
With the Spurs, after game one, the Mavs forced the Spurs to play small ... As it turned out, the Mavs were getter at it ... But it was very close.
Its all about the match-ups.
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