Monday Morning Links

by Wes Cox on Nov 10, 2008 9:43 AM CST in News

Bob Sturm took a good look at Josh Howard's fourth quarter production. We all know Josh gets off to hot starts, but it was interesting to see that Josh not only scores less as the game goes on but shoots less as well -- and he's been consistent about that for four years.

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Mike Fisher's postgame thoughts.

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All of the game recaps are running with Dirk's postgame quotes about the team not trying.

“If you don’t compete hard, it’s not about X’s and O’s. You can run whatever play you want. You can have all the schemes you want defensively. We’ve just got to push ourselves to play harder,” Nowitzki said. “I don’t know what it is. I don’t know what’s going on. We don’t leave it all out there and that’s what you’ve got to do, especially in the tough Western Conference.

Dirk continued with that theme when talking about the Lakers game.

"We’ve got to get back to playing tough at home and really getting our confidence at home with the fans behind us," Dirk Nowitzki said. "We can’t give them another effort like we did against Cleveland, where everything was a step slow and they started booing in the first quarter or the first half. We’ve got to leave it all out there."

"The fans pay a lot of money for their ticket and they want to see us play hard and leave it all on the floor," Nowitzki said. "You know, you can lose tough games when you fight. They see you left it all out there. Then, they can’t boo. If we fall short, we fall short. But it can’t be because of effort."

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The 1-4 Spurs are expecting Tony Parker to miss four weeks.

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Terry

needs to pick it up.

I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles

by Dirk Diggler on Nov 10, 2008 11:08 AM CST reply actions

How sad

That the guys on this team need to be called out and get their asses kicked this early in the season. Motivational speeches already after only playing six games? The fact that they can’t be bothered to motivate themselves is troubling. if you’re any kind of athlete with even a drop of competitive instinct or an ounce of pride, you shouldn’t have to be told that you want to win.

I mean, Dirk’s even telling Kaman that they’re not playing as a team: “I don’t want to take anything away from Dallas, but I don’t think they’re on the same level as the Lakers or the Jazz,” said Clippers center Chris Kaman, a teammate of Nowitzki’s on Germany’s Olympic team this summer. "Right now, they have the potential, but they’re just not there yet.

“I talked to Dirk yesterday and he was saying they’re not playing together. They’re not playing the right way. And we’ve had the same problem.”

by Marie on Nov 10, 2008 11:17 AM CST reply actions

Dirk is right

Last year, the only guys who were really trying had been Dirk, Terry, Bass and at times Howard. This year, I doubt it’s even those.

by Norsktroll on Nov 10, 2008 11:35 AM CST reply actions

I don't need stats to prove that Howard isn't clutch, I started to noticed it in the 06 playoffs.

I have witnessed time and time again.

by srdmad on Nov 10, 2008 11:44 AM CST reply actions

This is just great

Josh to see the doctor about his wrist. I hope it’s nothing too serious. I’m starting to doubt that he’ll play tomorrow.

by Marie on Nov 10, 2008 1:10 PM CST reply actions

If it means another start for GG,

I’m fine with it.

Really we need to be able to depend on our stars even less if we have any hope of going anywhere in the playoffs. With J-ho out, our weak links will start to show themselves more, and will hopefully lead to Cuban and Donnie making some kind of season-saving trade.

We all know how this goes though.. some team sees we are desperate to make a trade, then they start requiring that a young player like Green is thrown in to the mix. I will officially disown the Mavericks if that happens.

Seriously though, looking at our bench, there is no way this team as currently constructed makes it to the playoffs.

by JayKim41 on Nov 10, 2008 1:21 PM CST up reply actions