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How about:
a. Not leave people wide open (Jason Kidd)
b. Not tempt the Mavs even more to go to Dirk in the clutch by putting Finley on him, and then double team resulting in said wide open player
c. Play better overall defense
Props to the Spurs. They played and played hard till the end. THere is nothing you can do when Jason Kidd is hot from 3pt land. No team with Jason Kidd hot from 3pt land ever lost a game.
How about:
a. Not leave people wide open (Jason Kidd)
b. Not tempt the Mavs even more to go to Dirk in the clutch by putting Finley on him, and then double team resulting in said wide open player
c. Play better overall defense
Mavs played very well.
the perfect storm for the Mavs
I dont see why we were doubling Dirk and leaving Kidd open for 3 anyway. Stupid.
Keep it up Mavs, and we'll be seeing you in the 1st round, MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
no other team makes me sicker than the mavs.... dirks ugly mug stickin his tongue out after a bucket. terrys plane move after a normal bucket in the 2nd? cuban dancing like a on the sidelines... I know this team is done, but they still make me sick!
Spurs D was horrible in the 3rd. Dampier played really well on Duncan.
Good game for the Mavs.
one of the worst defensive efforts i've seen the spurs come out with. We were lat on rotations all night. We double teamed players that were 25 feet away from the basket, and we allowed too many open jump shots overall. Only thing that we did fairly well in my opinion was rebound.
Terry is the iest in the world
this long drive back to san antonio
our defense was horrible and duncan had a horrible game. two things that don't happen very often.
our rotations need to be a lot better when we play against better teams than dallas. bonner and mason were absolutely horrid on D tonight. i think we win this game if manu plays but props to the mavs.
3 bad defensive outings in the last 4 games... when it looked like we were turning it around, missed rotations and poor communication in the 3rd quarter...
That said, we fought all the way against a Dallas team that was on fire. This is the kind of games we could have won with just a little better defense.
Dallas played a better game. Hope this motivates Gooden into helping the team.
Was Pop serious with this game?
His experiments looks like those against suns last year.
props to the mavs, they played well. props to the spurs for making it interesting near the end-game.
There was no need to keep doubling and trapping players because that experiment failed over and over again with wide open shots for the Mavs. Good game for Dallas. I HATE the Mavs, but good game for them.
Yep, twas the perfect storm:
- Howard hitting everything early on
- Kidd nailing 3s from every spot possible
- Joey Crawford reffing; no fouls called inside when Duncan was getting mauled
- Bowen and Finley sucking it up overall
He'll be experimenting until the postseason hits. I will say, as much as I love Mase he made my vote of confidence for him to take over the point at times waver a bit with some of his decision making, but to his credit he is primarily a shoot-first guard. There were times when he used the threat of his jumper to draw double teams on screens and hit the wide open screener, but those were mainly in the early part of the 1st half. Ah well, still time for him to adjust to the role if Pop so sees it.
The Spurs lost because they played ty defense. With Manu, they could have scored enough in the second half to win, though.
Messed around and lost to the Mavs.
No D= No win.
Spurs have got to tighten up their belts and get serious about D.
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