Dallas Mavericks' Official Thread - Deron Here We Come!

Maverick41 · Last edited by Maverick41 on Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:45 am; edited 17 times in total

New season, new thread. The other one was originally started in February 2006. That was a completely different team, and so it's time for something new.

Old thread for reference - http://footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=42931

Record: 55-27 (Winner of the Southwest Division, 2nd in Western Conference)

STARTING LINEUP (Current as of 02-20-10)

Jason Kidd - 2 - PG
9.5 PPG, 9.2 APG, 5.2 RPG, 1.9 SPG

Caron Butler - 4 - SG
14.7 PPG, 6.0 RPG, 1.3 SPG

Shawn Marion - 0 - SF
11.5 PPG, 6.6 RPG, 49.5 FG%

Dirk Nowitzki - 41 - PF
24.7 PPG, 7.7 RPG, 1.1 BPG

Brendan Haywood - 33 - C
10.7 PPG, 8.0 RPG, 2.7 BPG

BENCH

Jason Terry - 31 - SG/PG
17.0 PPG, 3.8 APG, 1.3 SPG

Jose Juan (JJ) Barea - 11 - PG/SG
8.3 PPG, 3.2 APG

Rodrigue Beaubois - 3 - SG/PG
5.1 PPG, 49.3% FG

Eduardo Najera - 14 - F
1.9 PPG, 1.7 RPG

DeShawn Stevenson - 92 - G/F

Matt Carroll - 13 - SG
0.8 PPG

Erick Dampier - 25 - C (Currently injured)
7.1 PPG, 8.5 RPG, 1.5 BPG

Tim Thomas - 7 - F (Currently not with team)
7.5 PPG, 2.3 RPG

TEAM HISTORY AND NOTES

- 9 straight 50 win seasons
- Dirk Nowitzki won MVP in 2007
- Made first and so far only Finals appearance in 2006 against the Miami Heat
- Two jerseys are retired...Rolando Blackman (22) and Brad Davis (15)
- The Mavericks have sent a total of 9 players to the All-Star game in their team history (Kidd, Nowitzki, Finley, Howard, Gatling, Nash, Blackman, Aguirre, Donaldson)
- Mavericks are the only team in the Duncan era to eliminate the Spurs from the playoffs on their home court and they've done it twice
- The Mavericks had more wins in the 2000-2009 decade than any team other than the San Antonio Spurs
- The Mavericks' 67-15 06-07 regular season record is good for 8th best in NBA history
- Dirk Nowitzki is the only player in NBA history to be ranked in the top 100 all time in the categories of 3 pointers made, 3 point percentage, free throws made, free throw percentage, total rebounds, blocks, points, points per game, rebounds per game, PER and turnover percentage
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turtle28 · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

Keep searchig for that title Cuban, they are still after geting Marrion only the 4th best team in the West. They can't beat LA, Denv, SA or maybe even Portland in a 7gm series.
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TheFlying8 · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 2261

Good work Mav41.

Turtle, dont wright in absolutes when you dont know what your talking about. The Mavs were built to beat S.A. and have beat them the last 2 times they faced them in the playoffs. With better officiating against Den the series would have been tied 2-2 and who knows what happens from there, add in that we now have a great perimeter defender in Marion which we didnt have last year and that killed us against them, so beating them is possible. The Mavs would currently murder Portland in a 7 game series. The only team that I would bet money against the Mavs on in the playoffs right now is LA (assuming Odom returns). But throw in an injury to LA or just some plain bad luck, and anything could happen. Thats the beauty of actually playing the games, it doesnt matter what it looks like on paper. So are the Mavs the favorites - No. But to say they have no shot is naive. With a good bounce of the ball or two, and a favorable call here or there, they could beat all 3 of those teams in a 7 game playoff series.

Also, the Mavs most likely arent done making moves. Even if it doesnt happen this offseason, dont be surprised to see them make a splash around the trade deadline. They have alot of bullets they could fire if they see an oppurtunity. They have the Buck shot (a smaller Stackhouse-like expring contract that can be used starting sep 9th), Dampiers HUGE expiring contract, and J-Ho with his expiring.
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kingbron23 · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:47 pm Post subject:

kingbron23 · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject:

Hakim Warrick is now a UFA so that makes it easier How mmuch would you offer? 4mil? There arent any other top tier teams that would really go after him so I think we should get him.

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studcrackers · Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 1033

i asked this question that went unanswered b/c u started this new thread:

if i chose a backup pf from the celtics id go after leon powe, his #'s are better than davis he shoots a higher % and more boards and would probably come cheaper. only downfall is he's out til around the AS break

btw i was out of town the last 10 days what was the local feeling of the magic matching gortat's offer? did they and the fans feel like they got the shaft b/c i was real pissed to hear they matched it. it wouldve made our team so much more athletic and i feel we'd have the size and athleticism to compete w/the top tier teams of the western conference

DougE14 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:45 am Post subject:

studcrackers · Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 1033

well i wasnt a fan of the officiating vs. denver but they were simply a better team

as for the 06 finals that was the biggest sham in nba history in terms of officiating (maybe 02 lakers-kings) and it's not just mavs fan who've spoken up about that series. seriously a guy sets a ft record in a 7 game series in 6 games while nearly outshooting the other team in ft's the final 2 games screams favoritism and looking back on the games it's not even close

Maverick41 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:40 am Post subject:

Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the officiating in the Denver series, but I don't think it greatly effected anything (Except Game 3)

But you're blind if you don't think there was something disturbingly wrong with the officiating in the Dallas/Miami series. Even the biggest of Dallas haters will tell you that was a joke. Bill Simmons wrote one of the longest columns he's ever done saying it was the worst rip job since Kings/Lakers.

Game 5...Dallas shoots 25 free throws and Dwyane Wade on his OWN shoots 25 free throws? That wouldn't be surprising with this current team, but that 06 Mavs team was a slashing offense. They always drove the rim.

As Simmons said in his article "I just can't understand how anyone is supposed to believe that (Free throw discrepancy) happens in a fairly called game."

So, no...I won't ever give Miami their "due" for "winning" a title in 06 that was jobbed from us because Stern couldn't stand to hand the trophy over to Cuban.
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Maverick41 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:25 pm Post subject:

Basketball-Reference.com has named Dirk Nowitzki to it's all-decade team! Woo-hoo!

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=2997
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kingbron23 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject:

TheFlying8 · Joined: 17 Mar 2009 Posts: 2261

ohiostate#1 · Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 8000 Location: Columbus, Ohio

Guys there is no need to tell people to get out of a certain team thread. But in the same respect making a post that says has no substance and is nothing but claiming a group of fans are complaining (in esscence calling them homers) about calls is not something that should occur either. Try to keep all discussions civil.

Thanks.

kingbron23 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: