Mavs Lose at Home to Six Warriors: Rick Carlisle Postgame Quotes

by Wes Cox on Nov 25, 2009 12:04 AM CST in News Comment 6 comments

Well, we worked so hart to get up nine with about six minutes to go, and then they came back, I believe after we scored, and hit a quick three -- got the momentum back. Hey, maybe it's a case of guys playing too many minutes, and if so that's on me. It's very disappointing to work so hard to get a lead and then lose it -- especially at home. It's a very tough loss, and I think we are going to look back and point to the lack of attention to detail in terms of our effort. To spring back is something that you have to do against these guys because they are never out of a game. They could be down double digits and be back in a minute and a half by just running it up on you and hitting threes, driving on you and getting to the bonus. And they were doing all of those things. We had too many breakdowns -- simple as that.

Is that a mental thing?

Yeah, mental. Maybe it's physical too, but I don't know. We've had too many of these games at home where we've lost focus. We've been able to win the majority of them, but tonight we left too much to chance in the last six minutes.

Did losing Quinton Ross [didn't play second half --sore lower back] really hamper you...

Well it hurt us just from the standpoint that JET played the whole second half -- which is not good. It was hard. I probably should have gotten him out at some point, but it was tough because he was going pretty good, making things happen -- it was tough to get him out of there. I don't know his [Ross] status for tomorrow, but it's something to do with his back. We'll see where things are in the morning.

Question about if he saw this loss "bubbling under the surface" during the win streak...

Well, we haven't played our best. We've struggled offensively. We've been pretty gritty defensively, but we've just struggled. We've been able to win games despite that which is good, but on the other hand, there's something we've got to continue to work to get smoothed out. We are heading into a very busy stretch of games so we'll have to do it on the fly -- which we can because we've got a veteran group.

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Really, really disappointing.

Seemed like the team couldn’t really find a consistent way to score in the half-court game. Shots stopped falling late in the game, and for some reason Dirk just didn’t get his looks late on. I don’t know whether it was because of Golden State’s team D, or he just didn’t work as hard. Nevertheless, they really should’ve exploited the Warriors six-man rotation, the fact that they didn’t really seem to do that was baffling.

Credit to Golden State: they hung around and stepped up late on. Curry came up big, Monta was unstoppable and Morrow pretty much hit that three at will.

Remember to retire Fin's number, Mark.

by jonthefon on Nov 25, 2009 1:31 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I chalk this up to defense

A street ball playing team like Golden State is beaten by disciplined defense, and the Mavs felt content to stand and watch Ellis shred us throughout the 4th quarter. Kudos to kkenqvib for breaking down that horrible 4th quarter. I tried to watch it this morning but couldn’t.

103 points should be more than enough to beat anyone, especially a team with only 8 on their active roster. Jason Terry lives and dies by his streaky shooting, and he went cold when it mattered most, but we shouldn’t have had to rely on offense to defeat an inferior basketball team.

I tip my hat to Golden State. They wanted the win more than we did. Now it’s time for Carlyle to put aside his prejudices of rookies and let Beaubois go through his growing pains just like Pineappleface Popovich did with Tony Parker. Let the kid play because Berea is a 3rd point guard at best and has NO BUSINESS playing in crunch time.

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by Lord Humungus on Nov 25, 2009 10:49 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

completely agree with your assessment of why we lost

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by Walter Sobchak on Nov 25, 2009 3:35 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

sigh

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by DOH on Nov 25, 2009 7:07 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Painful

We gotta pull a win tonight.

by mg4tx on Nov 25, 2009 4:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

The excuse of lossing Ross and having to play JET the whole 2nd half is such bullshit

Roddy is sitting on the bench, and for that, this loss is on the coach. I’ve been more patient than most with the playing time being given to Roddy this season, but with J-Ho, Marion, and Ross out… you can’t keep him glued to the bench for the whole 4th quarter.

by njd.aitken on Nov 25, 2009 6:50 PM CST reply actions 0 recs