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The next time Skip Bayless says anything positive about a team from Dallas, it'll be the first.
I had the chance to see a columnist from the New York Times join Skip Bayless on that show called "1st and 10" today.
To begin the discussion, Bayless said he was impressed with what Avery had done but that this was a team built strictly for regular-season success. Doesn't trust Dirk when the game is on the line. Wishes he could put some of Stackhouse's killer instinct in Dirk. Said Mavs le or bust mentality predisposes them to failure.
The New York Times guy, some black fellow whose name escapes me, agreed emphatically. "Its the Suns year." He pointed to their recent OT win in Dallas as a turning point and suggested the same thing will happen in the playoffs. Reeling off seven straight (6-0 road trip) since losing to Phoenix while they have sputtered since was deemed not worthy of mention.
Bayless interjected that either way, it wouldn't matter because the Mavs can't beat the Spurs anyway.
Asked for what specifically he didn't like about the Mavs besides just loving the Suns, New York Times guy said that he agreed with Bayless and felt it was obvious that Dirk wasn't "as tough as" guys like Tim Duncan and Amare Stoudamire. He then said "Dirk is a great regular season player."
...all in all, downright dismissive of the little 60-11 squad that could. It was pretty interesting to see.
The next time Skip Bayless says anything positive about a team from Dallas, it'll be the first.
Ever since Bayliss left Dallas, he has been a Mavs hater and a Spurs homer. He has picked the spurs to win the le almost every year
i honestly think Dirk is percieved as not being tough like guys like Duncan and Stoudamire because he is white.
Bayless' sole purpose in life is to drive fans of Dallas teams insane. And I'm not shocked a New Yorker doesn't think a team from Texas can win it all.
No, its cause he isnt tough
European. If he was American, he'd be getting Larry Bird type respect.
He's tough like 60% of the time now.
hmmmmmm
i thought timmay wasn't black enuff and soft and all that crap EXPERTS speak of now this......
That whole "I don't trust Dirk at the end of a game" line is just nonsense. Who does he think took the final shot to get Mavs into overtime of game 7 against San Antonio?
The Mavs are the best team in the NBA right now (as much as I hate to say that). They have a lot of playoff experience and are probably even hungrier and will not be satisfied just to make it to the finals.
Yea, he has gotten tougher, for sure, but I dont think he intimidates anyone
Bayless is annoying i means he acts all pro-Spur but then always says they are so boring. He has vastly underated Dallas all year. A team that wins this many games in the season that went to the finals the year before is not built just for the season.
I don't know if I agree with that. The media is all over Dirk's jock right now. All the MVP talk has been about Dirk and Nash -- two white dudes.
It will be a while before anybody gets Larry Bird type respect. That guy was just amazing. I remember watching a game where he scrambled for a loose ball and made a basket while laying flat on his back. I'm glad I was alive and witnessed the NBA years with Magic and Bird.
No, he doesn't intimidate anyone but I'm having a hard time coming up with many top players that do intimidate other players.
Nobody likes us, everybody hates us...
If you want to stake claim at being the best team in the L, then be prepared for people to take shots at you. Everyone loves the underdog, the backup quarterback, the autistic benchwarmer who scores 30 points in the final quarter of a high school basketball game. Get back on the porch if you dont want to act like the big dog.
he's always been the kind of guy who will take a shot to the face, get a tooth knocked out whatever and stay in the game. same with when he twists up his ankle and what not.
he doesnt intimidate people in the real sense of the world, but neither does tim duncan. dirk is intimidating just like duncan, in that they intimidate in the sense of being really good, hard to defend, constantly winning etc.
I've never seen a year where the media was so reluctant to name the best player on the best team as the frontrunner for MVP. They're trying their damnedest to find every reason possible to not give it to Dirk.
Whats wrong with betting safe?
Do you go to the horse races and bet on the horse thats never finished first? or the horse thats proved itself?
with that said, they where completely dismissive and I think its going to be Mavs/Spurs WCF.
*edit* holy crap, thats what I get for trying to post at work and not paying attention, suprised no one caught it
Last edited by phyzik; 03-29-2007 at 02:10 PM.
i wasn't complaining at all. you have little to no sense of "tone" in the things you read. i was merely acting as an impartial purveyor of information.Nobody likes us, everybody hates us...
If you want to stake claim at being the best team in the L, then be prepared for people to take shots at you. Everyone loves the underdog, the backup quarterback, the autistic benchwarmer who scores 30 points in the final quarter of a high school basketball game. Get back on the porch if you dont want to act like the big dog.
Skip Bayless
But nobody expects them to win. They just want them to win. Everybody expects the big dog to win. So if Skip Bayless had said "I in' hate Dallas and want somebody other than them to win" I wouldn't mind this article one bit. The fact that he hides behind one nationally televised game and throws out the rest of the season shows his bias.
Kevin Willis if you take out the top part
Hey, at least the Mavs have Bill Simmons, right?
Dirk wouldn't get Larry Bird respect if he were Amercian but he'd get more than he gets now since he's European. I truely believe that.
By the way, a couple of the older columnists in Boston have written very favorable articles comparing Dirk to Larry. Until Dirk wins a le or two it's really not a good comparision IMO.
I lived in Boston when Bird was drafted by the Celtics. I had only lived in Boston for 2 years but was a Celtic fan and that was a great day in Boston. Celtics sucked the 2-3 years prior to Bird arriving. I moved to Dallas the very next year so I never saw much of Bird in person though.
Not just Euro, but German, even worse
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