Gotta agree with Sir Charles

[gdiddy]

Hell Boy indeed. Check out this mean looking photo.

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Waiting for him to make a return this past season had been long and painful. Can't wait until next season.

 

[George O'Brien]

Raja is not the same guy he was when he was with the Mavs. He's turned into a serious offensive threat to go with some excellant defense. Losing him seriously hampered the Suns on both ends of the floor.

This season Raja averaged 14.7 ppg on 45.7% shooting and 44.2% for three. Against the Clippers, he averaged 19.1 ppg, 51.1% shooting and hit 24 of 47 three point attempts (51.1%).

BTW, during the regular season the Clips were the fifth best defensive team in the NBA.

 

[Nasser22]

The Mavs are a very young team. I don't know where you're getting that we're an old team from.
Dirk is only 27
Stack will come off the bench, (If we don't trade him for a younger player)
Van Horn will not be resigned. Mavs have already said this.
Darrell Armstrong will probably be promoted to assistant coach do to the fact that he pretty much said so in a recent interview.
Our starting 5 will all be fairly young.

Starting Five as Avery has stated next year will be:
Dirk 27
Howard 26
Diop 24
Terry 28
Harris 23
How can you consider this an old team?


We're going to bring in more bench players, mainly younger one's.
We also have Josh Powell who is great. He's very young and should get a ton of minutes next season. This guy is awesome. He just needs a bit more development, like Howard did when he was a rookie.

Maybe it was a typo and he meant the Spurs?

 

[Gaddabout]

But Nash's game will be easier. Rather than having to create everything himself the offense will start w/ Amare. The pick-n-roll was so devastating in last seasons PO's. Now we'll get a whole season of that.

The easier part is not true. It still requires Nash to be in the floor to execute it. His body isn't designed to put in 36+ minutes for 82 games + extended playoffs. We need to cut his minutes down to about 30 during the regular season, and the only way that's going to happen is to find a semi-competent PG who won't go -10 in the plus-minus. We need someone who can run the SaR to a degree of efficiency.

 

[Errntknght]

Gaddabout >>
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Originally Posted by BillsCarnage
But Nash's game will be easier. Rather than having to create everything himself the offense will start w/ Amare. The pick-n-roll was so devastating in last seasons PO's. Now we'll get a whole season of that.

The easier part is not true. It still requires Nash to be in the floor to execute it. His body isn't designed to put in 36+ minutes for 82 games + extended playoffs. We need to cut his minutes down to about 30 during the regular season, and the only way that's going to happen is to find a semi-competent PG who won't go -10 in the plus-minus. We need someone who can run the SaR to a degree of efficiency. <<

I think Nash will have a much easier time next year, assuming Diaw and Amare are okay. Each of them generates quite a bit of offense on their own and since they are inside threats the defenses will have to pull in a little, giving our spot up shooters more room. So we will not have to work the P&R to death. D'Antoni hasn't shown an inclination to do it before but it's possible to disguise the P&R so that the defense doesn't have much time to set up for it. The Kings used to do it (& still may) and Bibby didn't get manhandled the way Steve does - that dribble-hand-off play they ran was one version of it.

 

[Joe Mama]

I agree with everyone that a good, backup point guard should be a priority. I also agree with those who are saying that if/when Amare returns to form life for Steve Nash will become much easier regardless of minutes. Last year the offense ran through Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire. Nash did not have to create every opportunity by running around like a madman like he did this year.

They need to get Boris signed to an extension and hire that drill Sergeant from Full Metal Jacket to yell at him all summer about staying aggressive. Make him shoot midrange jumpers until he's more confident in them.

Joe

 

[nowagimp]

Bell is average at best!! With Amare and Bell maybe, but Bell would not have made much difference!! The Mavs are just better this year and deeper!!

Before going down with that calf tear, Bell was the No 1 3 pt shooter in the playoffs, including Dirk, terry, and the mavs leader Howard. Bell is a better player than all the Mavs guards: Harris, Terry, Stackhouse, Daniels. That group couldn't guard any of the top ten 2 guards in the league.