It's The Friday Links

by Wes Cox on Dec 19, 2008 11:07 AM CST in News

Dallas playing New Jersey tonight -- I'll give you one guess what almost every article is about today....

Sefko has a bunch of quotes from Kidd about his time with the Nets, and one quote from Devin about what he's trying to accomplish in New Jersey.

"I think I won a lot of them over in the first game I played. I'm not trying to fill his [Kidd's] footsteps. I'm trying to start my own legacy."

I think Harris might be just a little fired up tonight...

Caplan has a similar article.

"Devin is having a great year," Kidd said. "He’s having a heck of a year. He’s a talented young point guard and he can fill up the stat sheet, so I have a tough job tomorrow."

So Kidd is expecting to get the Harris assignment. I'm curious to see that matchup, as Harris's best asset, speed, is what Kidd has the biggest problems with. No doubt he'll be getting a lot of help.

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Sefko also talked to Avery Johnson about his former point guard.

"I'm just so proud of him and the time I worked with him. I can see his growth and maturation.

"We kind of predicted it. If you go back and look at our comments, we talked about him being an All-Star around this time. It's not really a big surprise."

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Jason Terry on the secret to his great season.

"I’m just connecting my spiritual with my physical talents," he said. "That’s what I’ve worked extremely hard on, reading more books, just the psychological part of this whole thing — just because the season is so long and it’s so hard to be consistent."

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David Moore writes about how Avery Johnson is keeping busy.

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Tim MacMahon has links to all the Kidd/Harris articles from the Northeast.

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Dirk Nowitzki and former Mavericks point guard Devin Harris have used the word dictator in discussing Johnson.

“Most of the time, when a coach has to be a dictator is when he doesn’t have a great leader,” Johnson says.

Zing…

"We know we're right there, but 'right there' in this league doesn't get you anywhere." -- Dirk Nowitzki

by Marie on Dec 19, 2008 3:28 PM CST reply actions

Yeah I saw that as well.

I’m really surprised how candid all the parties involved have been after Avery left — especially since they’re probably still holding back.

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by Wes Cox on Dec 19, 2008 3:58 PM CST up reply actions

I'll always be grateful for what Avery did with the team

But I hate how he has all of this love for Devin Harris now and it didn’t seem like it was there before. And then all this praise for Terry and JJB, but none for Dirk…makes me wonder how badly things deteriorated between Dirk and Avery.

"We know we're right there, but 'right there' in this league doesn't get you anywhere." -- Dirk Nowitzki

by Marie on Dec 19, 2008 5:55 PM CST up reply actions

“I think he’s trying to let us develop more as a team and not be the yelling, screaming coach on the sidelines,” Harris said. “Some guys don’t feel comfortable speaking up as opposed to him speaking down. So for a guy who is normally speaking up, it’s tough, but I think he’s doing a good job.”

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by Wes Cox on Dec 20, 2008 10:18 AM CST up reply actions