Mavs Defeat Rockets 121 - 103: Postgame Quotes
by Wes Cox on Nov 10, 2009 11:58 PM CST
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Erick Dampier
Why are you off to such a great start?
The guys are looking for me more around the basket. A lot of it is Jason Kidd. He has the ball in his hands a lot so the only thing I can do is present myself in an open area and try to score whenever I get it. When I get fouled I just take my time at the free throw line and knock down those shots.
We've talked a lot about the chemistry this season. Do you think that has a lot to do with Jason Kidd?
It's more of everybody being willing to make the extra pass. Our defense starts our offense. We've got to go out and defend and rebound consistently each and every night - and not really worry about the offensive end. We have guys who can put the ball in the basket and we give guys different looks every night. If somebody isn't going, then someone comes off the bench and gives us the extra pep we need. We are a team, and if we play hard together good things are going to happen for us.
What is the focus for tomorrow night?
You're talking about a totally different defensive team. We know who the ball is going to go through there. Tim is going to get his touches, if he's back. If he's playing, we'll try to contest all of his shots and make him take contested shots at the basket -- keep those guys off the boards. We can't start the game the way we started tonight. We have to start the game better, so we're just going to go out there and give it a great team effort and play some great team defense -- hopefully come out victorious.
JJ Barea
You showed real commitment to stay in the game after being down 17.
They started on fire. They were making everything. They were playing harder. I think we made a good comeback in the second quarter. At halftime coach got mad, started kicking a couple things, and got us back together. We knew we were going to comeback, and we had a hell of a second half.
What was that message in the second half?
It was just to get us pumped. 'Come on we need energy, we need to hustle, they're playing harder than us...' It was just about that. It wasn't about basketball.
How do you become a more consistent team defensively?
Keep practicing, keep getting better. It's a team defense -- five guys have to be on the same page at the same time. On the pick-and-roll we have to defend a little bit better. Brooks and Lowry were getting into the paint tonight. Keep getting better. It's a long season.
Talk about Erick Dampier.
He's one of the best. I love him as a teammate. I love him as my big guy. If he can be my big guy forever, I'll take him. He sets screens. He never asks for the ball. He does the dirty work, and we love him for that.
Rick Carlisle
We were just getting our tails kicked and the guys got angry -- started playing a lot harder and with a lot more purpose. That started the turnaround. The play in the first half was really poor. We got scored on eleven straight times at one point. It was everybody. Everybody was involved. It was late first quarter to midway through the second. It's embarrassing how poorly we were playing. Give them credit, they were agressive, and making shots, and driving the ball, and persistent defensively. They had something to do with it. This kind of wild inconsistency is obviously something we've go to to work on.
Talk about Erick Dampier.
He was great He was not only a presence around the basket, he was a force. The numbers are monster numbers, so without him we would have been in real trouble tonight. but he's been playing big for us all seven games.
Defense on Brooks in the second half...
We just did a better job guarding him. And it wasn't just one guy left on an island, our whole team was reacting to what was going on. He played over 20 minutes in the first half, so maybe he wears down a little bit too. But we were a lot better. Our disposition was strong defensively, and we played better offensively. In the first quarter we turned it over eight times or something and just were disheveled. We're going to have to play a lot better.
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It's more of everybody being willing to make the extra pass.
That’s what really stood out to me tonight. Unselfishness.
by njd.aitken on Nov 11, 2009 12:28 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
the Offense gets better, the Defense worse... 104pts/100possesions this time ...we're almost dropping out of the top 10!
After the Houston Rockets roared to 61 points in the first half, Carlisle unleashed a tirade that Dirk Nowitzki compared to some of Avery Johnson’s antics in the home locker room at the American Airlines Center.
Carlisle booted a blue laundry bin — “Almost broke his toe,” Dirk said — then tried to pick it up and toss it. The usually mild-mannered coach’s dress shoe also made contact with the white grease board, on which he had scrawled “11,” symbolizing how many consecutive possessions the Rockets scored against the Dallas Mavericks’ despicable defense.
During Carlisle’s postgame press conference, he used words such as poor, embarrassing, horrendous, terrible and abysmal to describe the Mavericks’ performance for most of the first half. The words he used while battering the laundry bin are probably best left in the locker room.
“He moved some of the furniture around,” point guard Jason Kidd said. “And it was well-deserved. We all took notice of that.”
Just imagine how mad Carlisle would have been if the Mavericks didn’t finish the first half with a 10-0 run to get back in the game.
“There would have been more than furniture moved,” Kidd said.
and the next opponent: offensive juggernaut spurs (2nd best offense in the league at 111.6 pts/100possesions) – i have to laugh evertime i think about it.-
pop is going to puke if that game reaches combined 250 points again ^^
The Charles Barkley 2009/10 Ancestors Count: 1 Grandmothers , 0 Mother Alltime: Reg. 24-0 Playoffs 7-0
"There were arms coming from everywhere, and I knew they weren’t going for the ball," Miller said. "I was just trying to get [the shot] up before they called some crap like ‘on the ground.’ "
"What do you want me to do?" Wright asked. "Do you want me to Derek Fisher him?"
"Give them some fucking credit, i mean for real." Jackson said.
"I just fell on my face for no reason," Bryant deadpanned. "I'm a klutz."
"Fucking right i'm preachin' it!" Carlisle replied.
"Rough life, isn't it. It's tough all over, isn't it." Smith chuckled.
by DOH on Nov 11, 2009 4:50 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Also : The horoscope hasn't changed that much...
The Charles Barkley 2009/10 Ancestors Count: 1 Grandmothers , 0 Mother Alltime: Reg. 24-0 Playoffs 7-0
"There were arms coming from everywhere, and I knew they weren’t going for the ball," Miller said. "I was just trying to get [the shot] up before they called some crap like ‘on the ground.’ "
"What do you want me to do?" Wright asked. "Do you want me to Derek Fisher him?"
"Give them some fucking credit, i mean for real." Jackson said.
"I just fell on my face for no reason," Bryant deadpanned. "I'm a klutz."
"Fucking right i'm preachin' it!" Carlisle replied.
"Rough life, isn't it. It's tough all over, isn't it." Smith chuckled.
by DOH on Nov 11, 2009 5:24 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
it says dunk
go mavs, go colts, go rangers, go baylor
by zkmavz on Nov 11, 2009 9:08 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
This Team Will Either Be Glorious or Infuriating
They looked sluggish and almost disinterested in the first quarter and a half. Houston was playing absolutely lights out, but it really looked like one team didn’t care. Then they turned it on and outscored Houston by 35 in the final 35 minutes.
This team is going to give me a heart attack.
Greetings from the Humungus, the Ruler of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-A. I laugh at your puny plans.
by Lord Humungus on Nov 11, 2009 7:47 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Erick Dampier:
“The Dream Shake – He sucked last year, the year before that, the year before that, the year before that, etc. What’s different now?”
What do you guys have to say now?
by mg4tx on Nov 11, 2009 8:56 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Regarding Erick Dampier.....
Maybe he’s playing better because it’s a contract year? More time with J-Kidd? The fact that the MAVS were considering starting Gooden? (Damp ALWAYS plays better when he has competition for the starting role). WHO CARES? The fact is he is playing his best ball. Isn’t that what really matters? Not WHY he’s doing it?
by Cynthia56 on Nov 11, 2009 11:08 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I agree with you completely
However doesn’t it make you just a little pissed that he wasted 5 years of our lives with his hideous play?
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by Phillip Baggett on Nov 11, 2009 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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