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In all honesty I like the fact that no one is giving us a shot. Especially from people like Colonshaw
Just a little blurb from a very long, tedious article written by the Dallas Boring News' Tim Colishaw, the premise of which seems to be that the NHL is a better league than the NBA because teams actually made significant trades this year:
One player can make a huge difference in the NBA. One trade could have shifted the balance of power (if you can use that word) in the East.
And everyone sat around doing nothing.
Likewise with the San Antonio Spurs, the Utah Jazz, the Los Angeles Lakers. These are very good teams with absolutely no shot at beating Dallas or Phoenix. And maybe one trade wouldn't have changed that.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...w.3456c60.html
Ya know, like most others here I am very impressed with how well Dallas is playing this year. But sh*t happens and the team with the best regular season record ain't guaranteed nothing but the #1 seed in the playoffs. And to say none of the other top teams in the West can beat Phoenix belies the fact that the Suns have a losing record against those same teams.
More crack reporting from the Boring News. If Dallas does somehow manage to not win the championship these guys will probably commit suicide, so convinced are they of the Mavs' playoff invulnerability.
Before Mav fan goes berzerk, note that I am not denying the Mavs are, barring injury, favorites to win it. I just take issue with this "we're having a great regular season and there's no way anyone can beat us" mentality most of the sports writers up here display on a daily basis. You can bet Avery isn't taking teams for granted.
In all honesty I like the fact that no one is giving us a shot. Especially from people like Colonshaw
I agree 100% that its great the writers in Dallas are so sure the Mavs are going to beat the Spurs in the playoffs. That just makes the eventual Spurs victory much sweeter. I do think the Mavs are a much better team than before and will be tougher to beat, but I like our chances based on our team makeup, our coaches and the intangibles (like being written off before the playoffs!)
That was really a stupid thing to say by Colishaw. The spurs definitely have a shot at beating both the mavs and suns. Maybe not a great shot but it is possible.
Yeah, chamelions on crack. I've seen those columnists in a feeding frenzy, turn on their own hometown teams with no mercy, kinda like LA Times. DMN's media team sell print, at any cost. Mav's supporters still wince at their hometown's newspaper write ups about them during the '05 run. I read the Telegraph from Ft. Worth for a better balanced story.
when was this written
its dumb to say they have no shot at beating Dallas event though they are a big underdog. but saying Spurs cant beat Phoenix? come on now.....
Phoenix is a Chimera, like they are every year. With the correct seedings now implemented, they have no chance to get out of the second round, having to face either Dallas or SA.
As of right now I am assuming that Phoenix is going to be playing San Antonio. I don't envy the trip San Antonio has to make this Post Season to get to the WCF, Same one, pretty much, that the Mavs had to make last year, going through a so so team (Lakers w/o Odom), then all of a sudden having to play a completely different type of team (run and gun, to with defense, Suns), THEN, if you win both of those games, play in the WCF against the Mavs ( yet again a different style of bball). Should be a stressful run for Spurs fans. I hope they make it,so we can see that Mavs-Spurs matchup
Most are.Should be a stressful run for Spurs fans.
I guess that being said, its brutal conference all the way around. Dallas may have to play a Denver with a gelled AI/Melo, and then turn around and play Utah/Houston. Our saving grace is that Utah/Houston should be beat down for both teams.
I learned my lesson in 1995 about how important the regular season is.
The Spurs have made it through tougher playoff runs than Phoenix and Dallas. It sounds to me like, for all the wins, Mavs fans are whistling in the dark when it comes to the Spurs. Of course, if Maverick fans didn't have a massive inferiority complex, they wouldn't be trolling a Spurs board for hours every day ready to take on Spurs fans for their differing opinions.
Oh well since Tim Cowlishaw says so the season must be over. Im surprised the NBA is still playing games.
Tim Cowlishaw is such a Mavericks fan he spends half of his Around the Horn appearances complaining about the scoring.
If that is the popular opinion in Dallas (among fans and media), then the pressure on the Mavs is going to be insane this year. I wonder how they will handle it in the playoffs. Oh, and if the Mavs manage to lose, watch out...bodies everywhere.
then the Spurs 8 game win streak means nothing right?
according to your logic
i like the streak we're on, but i will feel more confident if we can beat the more elite teams. until then, it doesn't matter that we beat the scrub teams in the NBA and end up with a good record. if we cannot beat teams like dallas or the suns, then yeah, we shouldn't be too confident.
I don't see where he has the time to watch all the Mav games as he's pretty much devoting all of his time to NASCAR these days.
I'm sure that's true for most of us.
Winning 8 consecutive games in February and March is pretty much irrelevant. The 1994-95 Spurs were 30-4 in their last 34 games, including 21 of their last 23 -- and that team still lost in the WCF. The next year, the Spurs had a 17 game winning streak that included the last game in February and every game that team played in March. And it still lost in the 2nd Round.
Didnt some other writer say the exact samething Colishaw is saying, I beleive he called the NBA the No Balls League, since no one managed to pull off a crazy trade that he can write 58969684 articles about.
I agree, with the expectations the fans and media alike have with these mavs, that if they lose many people will go crazy. That being said, I think that Avery and his team are handling the hooplah pretty well. They seem to be put together well when handling this years success. I don't see Mavs running around filming commercials (ala Wade), or responding to all the media praise with arrogance. They all admitt that the only thing that matters is the Championship.
And I learned my lesson (again) this year about how being written off so early by so many people affects a team. A lot of writers may not come out and say it, but the general feel is that the Mavs are an unstoppable juggernaut this year, and are practically impossible to stop come playoffs, if healthy.
Now, I realize that some analysts are saying the Spurs have a legit shot. Some even favor them due to more experience. But you just need to take one look at the Chicago Bears (and the Colts) from this past season to see what a team can do with a chip on it's shoulder.
Coming into the playoffs, neither team was expected to do much other than maybe win a playoff game or two and go home in the conference le game.
The Bears in particular were media underdogs, and every single ESPN analyst picked the Saints to beat them. Some went so far as to say there is "no way the Bears can beat this Saints team."
They were right. The Bears didn't beat them. They annihilated them, causing fumbles and offensive miscues all over the field with their defense. In much the same way, the Colts won, won, and then after being down early, came back to dominate the second half against the Patriots and win a Super Bowl.
Personally, I love being written off. I want our players to step into the series vs. the Mavs with the entire media saying it's going to be a 5 game laugher of a series for Dallas. I want Duncan and Parker to walk onto the court and just stare down the Mavs players. Then I want to see a series of the most physical, most overpowering, most pissed off Spurs basketball in our 30 years of existence as a franchise. I want to walk into game 1 and completely dismantle the Mavs.
Will it happen? Dunno. But I know that when a bunch of people tell a great team, "See that team over there? That's Goliath. You have no chance of beating him." Players like Tim Duncan often simply nod in agreement... and reach for a slingshot.
i really can't believe you think that playing the lakers is the same as playing the griz, one team has a history of winning championships with one of the best coaches of all time with one of the best players in the league today and the other team has never won a single playoff game and thier best player is a soft 7 footer. Dallas had a first round bye last year plan and simple while the lakers this year could push any team to 6 or 7 games.
This playoffs won't be nearly as tough as playing the nuggets, sonics, suns and pistons in 05.
Isn't this the same idiot that said the mavs would win the finals when they were up 2 games? The one that inspired Wade?...............NEXT
This Dallas hometown beat writer comes off like the inexperienced geek who finally MIGHT get some action, but...OOOOOOHHHHHHHH...prematurely blows it. The guys is talking out of his ass about something he knows nothing. Besides, does this idiot know San Antonio's recent record over Phoenix the past few seasons? How about in the 2005 playoffs? Nash was younger then. Stoudemire hadn't had microfracture surgery. And so Dallas squeaked by San Antonio for once in last year's playoffs. Let's let this year's playoffs actually arrive and the teams actually face one another before making completely unsubstantiated, garbage statements. How some beat writers get hired is beyond me. Must be a miserable job.
Veteran teams like San Antonio know all about the war and the grind, they've got championship experience a few times over. The regular season doesn't mean anything without a grain of salt. Blah blah blah.
Let's talk about something real, something with substance now.
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