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I hope your knee heals soon.
This guy has no buisness in the Spurs system. He takes away from Manu's rythem, and makes Brent Barry less effective as the backup 2 guard and he's an individual player who takes low percentage shots. He needs to be traded for someone who can guard Dirk. If we don't find a solution to Nowizki, the same thing that happened last year will happen again in the playoffs this year. And it'll be worse this time because the Spurs don't posses the confidence they had last year, which allowed them to comeback from that 3-1 hole. I believe we can easily beat every team in the NBA with a smart defensive half court game with parker setting the tone and Manu and Duncan finishing strong, but against Dallas we lose in the half court to Dirks ability to shoot comfortably over his defender and Devin Harris's penetration. Miami beat Dallas by using Haslem on Nowizki to disrupt him physically on every attempt while boxing him out, and to brutally pound Harris, Terry and Howard in their penetration. We gotta get more physical and we gotta recapture that poise and confidence down the stretch that we had in 2005 and most of 2006.
I hope your knee heals soon.
No one is going to offer anything. The only option is to bench him a la Steve Smith in 2003.
The haters will be eating their crow when SA wins the LOB Trophy with the help of Fin Dogg!
Good one. "Fin Dogg" better call up Steve Smith so they can talk about his new role.
Id much rather play Finley than Barry.
At least FInley made a shot, and is WILLING to take one.
Unlike the great white ghost.
Now you know why Cuban dropped Finley. He was going down quick. Just to be nice I'll let y'all keep Finley. lol
Spurs should keep Finley. If the Magette deal comes, then we have insurance in case he doesn't show up in the playoffs either.
Finley needs to drive to the ing basket, he did it last year in the playoffs against Dallas a couple times and now he refuses. Its like hes ing traumatized or something. He loves taking re ed jumpshots, I can understand if they were falling but damn , your in a ing shooting slump.
Finley is driving more, but I agree.
If I had to choose Finley or Barry.
I swallow and say Finley, on the basis he actually makes a shot, unlike Senor stiffo Barry.
It seems that Mark Cuban had a master planto get Finley on the Spurs. Mission Accomplished.
I love the time Finley put in as a Mav! He needs to stay a spur while being a witness to the power house Mavs winning that trophy this year. The only tough teams that stand in our way are the Lakers and Suns but we can beat em both but it wont be easy.
Why do you think the lakers are that good? Nevermind. I shouldn't even respond to stupid comments like the spurs are no threat to the mavs. Pure garbage.
Mavsfan1000, he's a little wet behind the ears. He probably thought Friday's game was a Game 7. I just checked the calender, it's January 07. I'm sure he'll snap into reality.
Mavs/Spurs = new Lakers/Celtics
Nellie begged him to drive to the basket when he was in his prime and he'd only do it every once in awhile. Maybe once every 10 games he'd play really aggressively and take the ball to the hoop and get some rebounds as well but it's just not in his nature. I never understood why he didn't do it more cuz he was always good at it when he did and he's a really good free throw shooter.
That's been the book on Finley the past 5-7 years. This kind of is what drove the collective Mavs fan base insane. I read their boards during those last couple of years. The chatter sounded just like what we're saying and reading here. The fans wanted Finley either benched or gone altogether. In fact, before he was released via the amnesty exemption clause, it was widely assumed that Finley would be losing his starting job the next season. The talk among the Mavs community was how would Finley react to losing his starting job?
Once again, Pop fell is love with yet another over-the-hill, long-in-the-tooth, past-his-prime, ex-Maverick. First up Nicky Van Exel, then Finley. It's both amusing and disheartening that Pop fooled himself into thinking that these two guys were "important pieces" in a championship puzzle, when neither one of them ever won and had declining abilities.
Finley has been on the decline for the past 5 years and Pop acts as though he hadn't seen him play in five years. Same with NVE. Makes you wonder what the Pop was thinking by signing both these guys? How many old guys does one coach need on his team?
Last edited by SenorSpur; 01-07-2007 at 10:45 AM.
Yeah, you are absolutely correct about Finley and how frustrated most Mav fans were with him. He's a great guy but he drove me crazy with his unwillingness to attack the hoop (when he was more than capable). And the consensus around here is that Cuban & coaches didn't think Finley would handle coming off the bench very well since he had such a long history of starting in Dallas.
Obviously, everything revolves around money in this business and when Cuban was willing to let Finley go (and continue to pay him $17 million for the next 2 years) that should have told everyone where Finley's game was at. Yes, I realize that Cuban saved the same amount on luxury tax by waiving him but Cuban would have been more than willing to pay that tax if the team thought Finley was needed.
With that said, getting Finley for only the $5/6 million/year that the Spurs got him for was a bargain. It just appears to me that the team and some of the fans expected the Finley of old.
Trade Barry, trade Beno, trade Finley, trade Duncan..... Stop making that kind of stupid threads.
the only thing that annoys me with Fin is when he's off he keeps shooting and when he's on he doesnt shoot
This is the stupidest take ever. Do you actually have the capacity to think before you speak or write? Are you serious? Frightening how many low quality posters there are among the great ones here. Until the Mavs win a championship, don't even try to bring it. You should be smarting over that embarrassing collapse against the Heat last year. The Spurs, historically, are immensely more successful than the Mavs, and the Mavs rallied to win one over the Spurs in EARLY January. See you in the playoffs. Meanwhile, don't talk smack to Spurs fans until the Mavs have won three championships. Cya.
Wake UP! Wake UP! It was just a dream!!! LOL
I agree, I'd deactivate him though
I'm afraid you're right, even though he'd be a cheap contract. Who wants to take our trash off our hands for a superior player? That's why so many posts about possible trades on this site are ludicrous.
But Why can't Pop get it through his head that the guy simply can't play so many minutes as a prime option in the rotation? He'll have an occasional flashback, but overall is a liability on the floor.
finley is a big playoff performer. i remember when the kings played the mavs in the playoffs, finley would always kill us with big shots...
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