Tuesday Morning Roundup

by Wes Cox on Jan 13, 2009 9:57 AM CST in News

Jeff Caplan has a good article on the Mavs failure to prove they can beat the better teams in the West.

"We've got to find a way to get a win to end this trip on a positive and then get ready to play a very talented team in New Orleans," Kidd said. "You concentrate on the first game."

Dallas needs a convincing win in the West. Nine of its 13 victories have come against bottom-dwellers: the Los Angeles Clippers (three), Memphis (two), Minnesota (two), Oklahoma City and Sacramento.

The Mavericks have beaten Houston without Yao Ming and San Antonio without Manu Ginobili.

This quote from Kidd on Denver's defensive strategy doesn't fill me with confidence about tonight.

"They invite you to shoot the 3-ball," he said. "They like to see if you'll fall in that trap. You just got to make sure you're taking good shots."

Why do I feel like I know how this will end? In the Mavs losses to Denver this year they have shot 30 & 35 threes.

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Sefko has an article on the Mavs defense which has been pretty awful lately.

Both the Suns and the Kings shot better than 50 percent, with Phoenix throwing in a ridiculous 62.7 percent. Those are losing numbers and the Mavericks know it.

"Teams are shooting a very high percentage on us right now, so the answer to that question is probably no," Jason Kidd said when asked if the defensive level had remained high enough.

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John Hollinger now says the Mavs have less than a 50% chance of making the postseason and project to finish the season 21-24.

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i will not be watching tonight

i am working until about 9… but then have 0 interest in turning this crap on after that… hopefully ill check the score later and be shocked

"I may not be a class act, but I'm an American."
-- Ron Artest on wanting to play for the Olympic team

by zkmavz on Jan 13, 2009 10:18 AM CST reply actions

if we finish the season 21-24

that will be quite a story

"I may not be a class act, but I'm an American."
-- Ron Artest on wanting to play for the Olympic team

by zkmavz on Jan 13, 2009 10:18 AM CST reply actions

Wow, that's a depressing Tuesday roundup...

by Marie on Jan 13, 2009 10:32 AM CST reply actions

Here is something a little funnier

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Eddy-Curry-slapped-with-bizarre-sex-harassment-s?urn=nba,133934

Without even thing about it first I read “come and touch it Dave” with the voice of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

www.mavsmoneyball.com

by Wes Cox on Jan 13, 2009 10:38 AM CST up reply actions

I don't know if I believe the driver

It just sounds kind of outrageous to me and I don’t know if Curry has that kind of history. On an unrelated note, I loved Darjeeling Limited, Wes : ) It was your typical Wes Anderson film, with the quirky characters and the long panning shots and kind of like a montone delivery on the dialogue. I had already seen Hotel Chevalier previously (I have it downloaded on iTunes when they were giving it away for free) so I didn’t watch it again. Schwartzman looked so pervy with that mustache; I didn’t realize Roman Coppola was also involved.

Is Bill Murray or that Pagoda dude in Bottle Rocket? I think that’s the only one I haven’t seen and it seems like those two are in all of his films.

by Marie on Jan 13, 2009 10:49 AM CST up reply actions

Pagoda

is in Bottle Rocket. Bill Murray didn’t join Anderson until Rushmore.

www.mavsmoneyball.com

by Wes Cox on Jan 13, 2009 11:08 AM CST up reply actions

ya know.................

it dont make much sense to beat down a horse by himself. Everyone wants to beat on Kidd, or J-ho, or Dirk, or whomever. But the bottom line here is, every top seeded team in the NBA this year has been beaten by a bottom dweller, and BADLY ! So, the way i see it, anyone can be singled out as a problem, but i doubt, as the single one who lost any specific game for the team. granted …….i agree, certain players that have extra talent, should be able to put the game on their back and HELP take it to a win.

BUT…….one thing still remains, there is a very “alive” set of circumstances that can enter in besides personal talent. some of them being illness, Karma or luck, home court advantage, and the fans. So here’s what i see, altho Dallas is playing terribly erratic, it cannot be taken as 1 player being bad, or 1 trade being bad. this is a team sport, and it takes all 5 on the court, showing up to play, like a finely tuned machine. EVERY GAME !

And i believe whoever wins the Championship this year will be the team thats comes to play like that well tuned machine. and that could be someone who isnt at the top of the standings. there are some very good teams playing this year, (and some very good talent coming along in the last couple years), who’s standings aren’t showing the desire, hustle, talent, and quality of the team. But they do have the talent to upset top ranked teams, if that top team doesn’t keep their mind on what they are doing, or has an “off” night.

Dallas has already shown they have the talent, and can play to a level of beating anyone in the league, but somewhere that “fine tuned machine” gets lost in a game by ALL…….. too frequently !

SUCK IT UP, GUYS………ur proffessionals, remember ??

GOOO MAVS………………

by dgatorr on Jan 13, 2009 1:11 PM CST reply actions

But we get our asses

beaten too often by shit teams, and we can’t hold onto leads against the good teams even when they are playing like shit (see both Lakers games this season).

Our team has talent but it also has too many holes. It has no presence at center, questionable defence and an offence which is generally hot ’n cold.

by jonthefon on Jan 13, 2009 7:42 PM CST up reply actions