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Yep it pisses me off to. With that said, nothing would be sweeter than to knock off the Lakers. Not looking like that could happen right now though.
I mean seriously.....losing to the ing Supersonics? Why are you ing the seedings up you dumb s. It was looking real sweet today with the Lakers playing the Nuggs in the 1st round but now you dumb s have to lose to the ing worst team in the WC and throw this all out of whack. If you don't beat NOH then it will be a DAL-LAL 1st round matchup.
Yep it pisses me off to. With that said, nothing would be sweeter than to knock off the Lakers. Not looking like that could happen right now though.
Turtle head Terry chokes both games.
Durant was clutch.
If NO wins their next game, will they have anything to play for in the last game?
Mavs must treat the game against the hornets as a game 7 now...
way to go mavs...way to kill the momentum you created over the past week by losing to POR and SEA....now you are back where you were before the GS game....a team that cant get it done
The Dallas Mavericks suck, simple as that. The Hornets will win on Wednesday and the Lakers will sweep us in the first round.
Mavs can take the Lakers. Sure--LA beat the Spurs without Manu, with a cold shooting Tim Duncan and lanes that closed in the second half that would have been perfect for Manu to open up along with Tony.
Mavs--do the opposite of last year--you be the 8th seed that knocks off the first seed.
Do it Mavs!
The Mavs can't beat the Lakers...not in a 7 game series with LA having HCA.
If the Mavs had homecourt, then possibly.
1. History...Mavs have only a few winning seasons against the Lakers
2. 62-61
3. There's no Kobe Stoppa on the Mavs (ala Bruce Bowen, Raja Bell)
4. Odom can't guard Dirk, Dirk can't guard Odom...Dirk +10 points, Odom +5 rebounds. Dirk is obviously better but in this cir stance, he's not superstar better like he would be in alot of other matchups.
5. No answer for Pau's 20 points
Mavs at Lakers in the first round would probably go to 5 very close games with Lakers pulling the last one out in Dallas.
Here's how a Dallas-LA series would play out:
Lakers get the first two in LA, one blowout and one close game.
Each team wins a close game in Dallas.
The Lakers close Dallas out in G5. It won't be a blowout, but it won't be a last possession either team can win it affair. Lakers by 8-11 in the finale.
You seriously underestimate Dirk's rebounding ability. In the playoffs, he ALWAYS raises his rebound average by a good 3-4 more per game. Plus, he has been averaging fantastic numbers here lately in limited minutes with a ed up ankle. Dirk has truly been playing at only about 70% this entire season, up until the past month or so (not health-wise, but effort wise). He knows that its important to peak at the right time, and he is surely doing that. No one is going to want to see a peaking Dirk in the playoffs. I'd put money on it that Dirk outrebounds Odom through an entire series if the two teams were to meet.
Dirk has always owned Pau Gasol so badly on both ends of the court, its not even funny.
this is how Dallas has always been.
when put in a position to feel good about themselves, they'll immediately it all up. been doin it for years.
Aren't they fairly locked into the 7th spot?
They should just concentrate on getting healthy and getting their minds right...
DD
Nope. They got to beat New Orleans to hold on to the 7th spot.
A Dallas win or Denver loss clinches the 7 seed.
I agree with your post. IMO, I don't care what seed they get. They just need to be healthy as possible, for whomever they face in the playoffs. I would rather them get the 7 as I am supremely confident they will murder the Hornets, but I look at it this way... it shouldn't matter who you play. If you are truly the best, you gotta be able to beat the best. It may not always be the case, but that is how you should approach the playoffs. I hate it when people talk about tanking to get an easier matchup. I understand why, but I think its a total move, and true contenders should never want to do that, because it shows that they are afraid, and true champs are not afraid of any team, because they know that THEY are the best.
what if GS loses tonight to PHX thus allowing Denver to clinch. Do you guys think Denver rests its players on Wednesday against the Grizzlies?
I think the Nuggz want the 7 seed and to avoid the Lakers just like us. We have an outside shot at beating NOLA. We got no chance against the Lakers.
F'in Mavs could have avoided all of this by just beating the Sonics
Right now, Denver might be the tougher out in the playoffs. Iverson and Carmelo each could drop 30 a game like nothing and each is capable of a 40-50 point night. Dallas is still a good team but they're not exactly clicking great at this point of the season.
Do you like how the ty Sonics went on a 10-0 run to close the game? This whole team is garbage except for Dirk and Kidd, and Damp, for some strange reason.
even if the mavs end up playing NOH, i think the crowd there has the same feel as GS had last season...those fans will be going crazy for the hornets and mavs will have to deal with a tough atmosphere
Yep, aside from a couple of games, the Mavs have not shown they can consistently get it done on the road against good teams. I just know that in the case of the Lakers, we might as well bump the offseason speculation thread. Against the Hornets, we have a chance, albeit not a great one.
I thought the mavs were playing the 95-96 Sonics with Payton, Kemp, Detlef, Perkins...etc then I realized this was the 07-08 Sonics with Durant, Green, Petro, Watson, Collison.
Avery doenst even have his playoff rotation yet and we only have 1 game left in the regular season...that just = disaster in the playoffs
Maybe the first Mavs thread where everyone was making sense.
THE FIRST.
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