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Where do dem Mavs stand?
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so i see you decided to use ascending order
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Seems about right, but why is a team that won 4 straight after losing two, last?
The Mavs choked hard in that series and the refs were sucking Wade's like no one's business, it was more that than Miami being an amazing team. Shaq posted fairly pedestrian numbers. Payton was old and so was Williams. AndAntoine Walker. Zo was the only good player with Haslem.
Wade was that team. Without him they were garbage.
I think you can make an argument for the top 3 on your list to be in any order. All three of those teams had complete teams. Hurts to admit, but I personally might put the 2008 Celtics as the best champs over the last 10 years. Same level defensively as the 04 Pistons and 05 Spurs, some could argue better. But I think they're offense was better than both.
Also agree that this Mavericks team would probably rank somewhere in the middle of the pack, anywhere in the 4-7 range among those le teams.
I don't know how to rank them personally.
I know the Mavs had one of the toughest roads to get there, but I can't say for sure whether they really are part of the top.
It really depends on how you see a lot of the events. Were the 04 Pistons great, or did the Lakers implode? (That says a lot on how you rank the 04 Pacers as well) How you answer that question has a lot to do with how you rate the 05 Spurs. Were the 03 Spurs really good, or lucky to get a tired Lakers team.
I still think the 01 Lakers were the gold standard. they might not have been great in the reg season, but their playoff run was smth else. After that I don't know. 05 Spurs and 08 Celtics are probably my top 3.
Solid, but just swap the '03 and '07 Spurs squads, IMO.
You werent watching those finals ? Mavs choked badly, Heat was little above crap that time.
definitely better than the '06 Heat... maybe better than the '10 Lakers..
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the only teams that I would without question put ahead of the Mavs are the 01 Lakers, and 08 Celtics, and the only ones that would without question be behind the Mavs are the 06 Heat, 07 Spurs. IMO everyone else is duking it out in the middle, pretty even overall.
Amazing how underrated this team was. The media was all over the Heat and Lakers and calling them chokers. Gasol has personal problems. Kobe is injured. Lebron has mental problems. All this bull and not giving the Mavs the credit.
2004 Pistons--My favorite team winning as 7-1 underdogs against the hated Shaq/Kobe Lakers. It was a perfect storm for me.
2008 Celtics--KG and Paul Pierce were two of my favorite players before they played on the same team. I was convinced that the two would never climb the mountain and I would never see a compe ive team in Boston. This was sweet, even if they had to beat the Pistons on the way to it.
2005 Spurs--They had great performances from everyone in the rotation, it was a classic series, the last season that NBA defense was allowed. More than that, the Spurs earned my respect and it's part of why I am a member of this board.
2009 Lakers--My venom for the Lakers had subsided. They were my second-favorite team growing up and it was sweet to see Kobe play that way, transform his game, in perhaps the best year I have ever seen from the Lakers.
2007 Spurs--Tony Parker was masterful. The Spurs won with a team concept and were dominant for most of the postseason. It was good to see the Cavs get trounced and I think that most of the country missed good basketball from the Spurs because of their reputation.
2011 Mavericks--Dirk was masterful and Lebron was exposed. I saw very little of the series, but I like the result.
2003 Spurs--These Spurs were tough and clutch. I hated the fact the Pistons weren't there and I am glad that the Nets were defeated.
2010 Lakers--I really wanted Boston to win. Sasha Vujacic with 2 rings or KG? It was a little bitersweet. Kobe looked old, and it wasn't a good series.
2006 Heat--I wanted the Mavs. I hated watching the criticism of Dirk, the collapse, the officiating (the first with the new interpretation of contact and impeding progress to the rim), thinking the NBA was fixed, the broken playoff bracket, watching Steve Nash win MVP. Have I mentioned I hated the 2005-06 season?
2002 Lakers--Hate these Lakers. Feuds, no balance around O'Neal, bunch of shooters around Kobe, and no ball-movement. Boo. Bad Basketball.
Are you serious? The Gasol Lakers over the Shaq Lakers?
That's covered in the post (why I don't like the Lakers with Shaq). Kobe is a different player playing alongside Gasol than he was with Shaq.
Winning three les in a row is bad basketball?
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You had teams with role players who couldn't hit a jumpshot or set a screen. The quality of the NBA product was down. There were no teams to speak of. Everyone had their Jordan, paid him accordingly, gave them his media attention, and they were 95% of the offense. It was Allen Iverson vs. Tracy McGrady every night. It was bad basketball that dominated because they had Shaq. When Shaq became fat and overrated, the team couldn't contend anymore. He is the laziest superstar I have ever seen. Don't get me started on the young Kobe.
They had no point guard, they stood and swung the ball, but outside of that, there was no movement. They didn't have anyone challenge them. It was boring, frustrating, and I hated having this team in LA. Respect the Championships, sure. Like them? Never.
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The 2008 Celtics are overrated. They went seven in their first three series. There hasn't been any real dominant playoff team since the 2001 Lakers and they're not from the last ten seasons.
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