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Originally Posted by donfratrachelli
You can't build a team around a 7fter who gives you nothing in the paint, on either end.Originally Posted by JapanAir21
I can get over the screwjob against the Heat, it's whatever, we had time to make things up, we didn't, oh well. There were a few phantom calls, but other than that, the refs just called it tight and Wade got the calls, more power to him. You won't see any refs saying "oh well we officiated the game bad," back then.Originally Posted by RiverXBear
^ thats the story of there franchise first the L took there chip that they built from scratch in the early 2000s and now this. I sometimes wonder
if people have it out for cuban this is BS. That 06 mavs team was one of the better post ERA jordan teams i dont see how we didnt win it that year and that will haunt this franchise for ever. I feel bad for dirk he gave his heart since he came here and he will end up like barkley.
Dirk has to be the most dogged-on superstar of this era. They talk about how he has no heart, he's soft, he's only a jumpshooter, but today against three of the best defenders in the League, he lit them up. This franchise just isn't right for him. Cuban just can't get the right pieces around him. This off-season, you gotta let Dampier go. Our biggest weakness is our lack of an interior presence, he's the most pushed-around Center in the League since Shawn Bradley. Dirk most likely won't win a ring here in Dallas, so it may be time to move on, rebuild, and let him go find his chances somewhere else. We have a good thing going right now, but our guys are old, I don't know how much longer Kidd will be moving on, but we can't do things the way we're doing them right now and keep players like Dirk, Josh Howard, and Kidd happy. Dampier is such a huge liability to us, and I don't see how we can improve in the interior fast enough to keep this franchise around. That may be the biggest mistake we made in this Mavericks era. I'd rather have Diop than Dampier right now, Dampier showed some flashes in the regular season, but he's old, he's rusty, he just ain't what we wanted from him. Even a great PG like Kidd cannot fix Dampier's butterfingers.
But, you just keep chugging on.