Yeah and he's also one of the best closers in the game. As for his All Star comment, Griffin absolutely deserved more consideration than Dirk this season. It's not Blake's fault that Dirk wasn't ready to play ball until the season was almost half over. IMO, even though Dirk is playing pretty well right now, he's lucky to make it this year at all.
Steve
Yeah I agree with you here. dirk is the kind of guy that can have a terrible shooting game like he did last night and even against portland in the last game, but there he is at the end sealing the deal somehow. a big part of dirk's ability to close is obviously shot making, but late in games he's able to get to the line to make easy points...most great players have to master this part of the game. and that is where griffin needs to work.
dirk himself said he didn't deserve to go to the all star game. and until maybe a week or so ago I would agree with that, but now he is looking to be returning to form and I do believe that he deserves the reserve role.
My point wasn't to say that dirk deserves to be an all star or starting over anyone else. I think there have been some years when that was the case previously, but not this year.
I do think that it is ironic that in spite of having a disappointing start he is currently better than the WC all star starting PF.
In the past 3 games dirk has played against aldridge, love, and griffin...dirk looked ok against all of them and the mavs won all games with dirk having a key hand in the mavs winning all 3. griffin is the starter. Lamarcus aldridge and kevin love are both better than griffin if you ask me and I think one of those guys should be the starter.
