by David on October 31, 2007
I missed the third quarter due to a good conversation with my wife. Yes, there are some things more interesting than basketball.
In the end, the Mavs win. LeBron had a pitiful night. Devin Harris looked good and so did Diop (at least, in the first quarter), but the show stealer was Jason Terry, the old starting guard and new 6th Man of the Dallas Mavericks. Terry was lights out from three point range. He finished with 24 points on the night.
Dirk was decent, though not stellar. His rebounds and blocks made up for less scoring. Jerry Stackhouse was the second highest scorer for the Mavs tonight.
by David on October 31, 2007
The Mavs are up at the start of the 2nd Quarter:
Brandon Bass goes to the freethrow line for the second time in the game. He’s making solid moves toward the basket. Hope he can follow through a couple times without a foul so I can get a feel for his style.
Devin Harris slashes to the basket to score a layup. Nice. Gotta love it when he does that. We’ve always known that he has the speed. Just waiting to see him execute repeatedly. Bass grabs a lose ball and takes it to the hole under pressure.
by David on October 31, 2007
With 46 seconds remaining in the first quarter, Dallas leads Cleveland 26-14. Gana Diop has 8 points in this first half – a very pleasant surprise.
It’s good to see Barea getting some minutes, although Jason Terry still brings the ball up half the time. Not sure if that’s habit or strategy. Speaking of, Terry just drained his second three pointer at the end of the first quarter.
LeBron James has yet to score. In case you couldn’t figure that out, that means their losing. Mavs are looking good.
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by David on October 30, 2007
Does anyone REALLY care about Mo Ager? Maybe you’ve seen him do something I haven’t. The Mavericks used up a perfectly good 1st round draft pick on Maurice Ager in 2006. For what?
When Ager was drafted, Avery Johnson was very positive about the pick. “This is a guy we’re hoping can be in that same mold (as Josh Howard) that can be one of our top players a couple years from now but at the same time can come right in as a rookie and potentially play for us… We kind of catapulted ourselves pretty much where I wanted us in that championship talk and that championship level. We really didn’t want a guy who we’d have to wait on as a project.”
by David on October 30, 2007
Call it an upgrade. Call it a decent move. Call it whatever you want. Dallas waived DJ Mbenga in anticipation of resigning the recently waived Juwan Howard.
Howard has already played for the Mavs during two seasons, and is familiar with the overall approach of Avery Johnson.
Mbenga was always a project player, with a couple more years of development needed. He won’t be sorely missed, despite how nice a guy he seemed. Juwan is a good move, provided that Dallas continues to utilize Brandon Bass in the regular season.
by David on October 30, 2007
The Mavs were given 4-1 odds for winning the 2007-2008 NBA Championship. The new-look Celtics were also given 4-1 odds. Only the Spurs were given better odds (7-2).
Sports Illustrated recently picked the Mavs to win it all against the Detroit Pistons. Interesting, considering the disappointing first round loss to Golden State earlier this year. “Loss” doesn’t do it justice. More like ass-whooping.
It appears that everyone thinks Dirk got some much needed space from the game and rest while the rest of the remaining teams played for the championship.
by David on October 25, 2007
This topic came up in discussion as we bounced around the names of Mavericks players we’d all be willing to lose in a trade. It’s not a huge list, surprisingly, but the answers are fairly consistent. Since we can’t really say who we’d be willing to trade until we know what we might get in return, the easier question to answer was which Mavs draw a crowd?
In other words, when you buy tickets to a game, which players do you look forward to seeing? Here’s how it breaks down around here:
by David on October 23, 2007
God, I hope not! That would mean we’d have to change the banner image of our site!
Hmm… maybe I could survive the tragedy. In the meantime, let’s discuss why you’re wrong and I’m right. You’re wrong because you think the Kobe trade will NEVER happen. I’m right because I’ve always thought it’s very possible, and that the end result will depend on something relatively small.
Let’s take a look at MVN’s Showboating blog. According to Matt Carter, it could be a done deal on the Lakers’ side and merely an issue of getting Dallas to comply.
