Round 1: Dallas Mavericks vs Golden State Warriors

I remember when Baron Davis and Stevie Franchise were comparable point guards, hell even Stevie was considered better at one time. Wow......

As a matter of fact didn't Stevie give Baron advice about watching his weight and gave him his diet (the diet to stop his migraines) to help him lose weight. I need to find a link for that.

 

no joke, it's annoying to see everyone start a thread with their own "opinion" yet their all similiar and can all go in the same thread.

 

Once I get this game on DVD, I will trash all my p*rn.

This game will get the job done.

 

do you like seeing the mavs lose that much???

or is it more all the really athletic sweaty guys?

















hmmm???

 

He has the hots for DeSagana Diop...

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...F?slug=ap-maverickscollapse&prov=ap&type=lgns

"You look in the locker room right now and everyone's very disappointed obviously," said Dirk Nowitzki, who had 23 points, 15 rebounds and four steals. "Now, our back's against the wall and we have to come out swinging."

 

We need to get Stevie back next season (after Knicsk buy him out). You can accuse him a lot of things, lack of heart is not one of them.

 

This is bittersweet. I only wished it were the Rockets who put the Mavs in their place.

 

Yes I hate the mavs thaaaaaaaat much.

I cannot stand Devin Harris and his blatant flopping.

I cannot stand the overrated Dirk. Sometimes when he is choking, I start to feel sorry for him (just a teeny weeny bit)....but he soon sticks his tongue out after one decent play which makes my hate for him double. It's an exponential function so you can imagine where my hate for him stand rights now.

I cannot stand Cuban's hypocrisy. If his teams aren't getting the calls, refs are the second coming of Borgs. When the other teams aren't getting any calls, he suddenly disappears and hides in a hole.

I cannot stand Jason Terry and his punkness. He will land a cheap shot when he gets a chance.

I hate Howard because he is another punk. The guy can ball but his smugness just makes me despise him.

I despise Stack. Stackhouse went to a good school. But you couldn't tell as soon as he opens up his mouth in front of the camera. Little b**ch has been flopping too lately.

Greg Buckner's sole purpose is to hurt somebody out there.

I loathe Dampier. Dampier is always pissed off at something. He is pissed off about his team, Dirk, where he ranks as a center, his house, his wife, his mom, his peanut butter & jelly sandwich, the size of his underwear...

I hate Diop coz ...well he just plain sucks.

I hate Avery because as soon as he opens up his mouth, all i see are teeth. His face disappears.

I hate the Mavs ball boy/girls. I hate them because they sport the lousy Mavs logo on their T-shirt.

I hate mavs fan because for some reason they feel entitled to a ring. They act like they won the whole thing last year.

BUT MOSTLY..I hate the Mavs because they robbed the 05 Rockets from advancing to the next round. Cuban had to cheat to save face. And it came at my Rocket's expense.

So yeah........when I watch a game like last night, I know I will never have to order Viagra when I am 60. I will just lock this DVD up in a locker somewhere. It's gonna be my Royal Ginseng.

 

Oh my goodness Zboy, you're on a roll

 

Hard to believe, isn't it? I think SF was drafted #2 and Baron Davis was #3. One guy has a good basketball IQ and learned to shoot the ball, the other never learned to guage his capabilities properly and never improved his skills. One guy is a dominant leader (maybe too much so) who is a borderline franchise player. The other had the nickname (Stevie "Franchise") but never earned it.

 

In all fairness, Zboy, I could'n't have put it better. I hate the MavPricks so much that they losing the series will just be enough for me to enjoy the rest of the playoffs even if the Rox did not advance.

 

OOOOoooooooooooooo

You have so much hate within yourselves for the Mavs.

That's just disgusting.

I love it.

 

I hate the Mavs like I hated the Jazz(holes) in the 90's.

Excellent post ZBoy.

 

people keep talking about a dvd; do they make dvds of just the first round series, if the warriors don't win the championship?

 

speaking of francis

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Here you go, as promised.

http://bt.nbago.net/bt/torrents/2/84c04f12d2f0c72e8785a4b19edb3a14b26e5a8c.torrent

940MB, TNT.

 

The ultimate winner of this series won't be Warriors, it is either Rox or Utah, more likely Rox now.

Warriors will beat Mavs, and that means they overachieve and they will be self-complacenced. Plus Warriors is not that a strong team, they just have nightmare matchups against Mavs.

It will be a golden opportunites for Rox.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2854688

Mavs coach 'tired of hearing' Dirk's frustrations

DALLAS -- With stubble on his cheeks and resignation in his voice, Dirk Nowitzki didn't look or sound anything like a dominant player determined to prevent one of the most embarrassing, stunning upsets in NBA history.

Maybe he was sapped by the long flight back from Oakland and film session that immediately followed. Or perhaps the listless appearance was just further proof of how much the Golden State Warriors have flustered Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks while winning three of the first four games in this first-round series.

Whatever the reason, the expected league MVP talked Monday about being ready to shrink from the spotlight even more than he already has in Game 5 Tuesday night.

"I got to take what they give me and they don't really give me a lot," said Nowitzki, who is averaging 20 points and has yet to score more than 23. "So I've got to make other stuff happen -- help out on defense more; hit the glass harder, as hard as I can, get some extra possessions; if I have a shot, try to knock it down and if I don't, move the ball and let someone else make a shot."

Nowitzki rarely boasts. Talk of "fitting in" is more typical than predicting a big game.

Yet would Michael Jordan talk about passing more when his shot wasn't falling? Did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar focus on rebounds when his sky hook was missing the mark? And how many titles did their I'm-going-to-score-no-matter-what attitudes produce?

The answer is enough to explain why coach Avery Johnson was angered by Nowitzki's comments, which are typical of his attitude throughout this series.

"I'm tired of hearing about how they've taken him out of his game and any lack of confidence. You're just not supposed to have that, all right," said Johnson, perhaps team's most intense player even though he's no longer playing.

"I wasn't the best of players and didn't have the best of skills, but you were not going to shake my confidence. We need all of our players to be confident, to be resilient, to be persistent and that's what I want to see tomorrow. If I don't see it at shootaround, I'm going to be highly upset ... because I need to have it going into that game tomorrow night. We've got to be confident and really sure about what we're doing."

And if he doesn't see it?

"We'll figure something out," Johnson said. "We'll figure something out."

Nowitzki proved he's capable of taking over a big game during last year's playoffs. After leading Dallas past San Antonio in a tense, second-round series, he pushed the Mavs past Phoenix in the conference finals by scoring 50 points in Game 5 of a tied series, then took over the second half of the next game, clinching a spot in the NBA Finals.

The Mavericks wound up losing to the Miami Heat, but came back so focused this season that they won 67 games, among the most in league history -- and 25 more than the Warriors, who needed a 9-1 finish just to make the playoffs.

Dallas had winning streaks of 17, 13 and 12 games, so three in a row to win this series certainly isn't asking for much, except for one nagging detail: Golden State is 6-1 in the head-to-head series, including the game that ended the Mavericks' longest winning streak.

Only eight teams in NBA history have overcome 3-1 deficits. If Dallas can't become the ninth, the Mavs will be the third No. 1 seed knocked out by a No. 8 and the first since the opening round became a best-of-seven series.

Don Nelson
Nelson

"We have a great deal of respect for the Dallas Mavericks," said Warriors coach Don Nelson, who was a big part of building Dallas into a championship team over the last 10 years. "If any team can come back from this, it's them."

Phoenix pulled off the comeback from 3-1 down last year in the opening round against the Los Angeles Lakers. Detroit did it as a top seed in 2003.

"Dallas won't give up," Golden State's Jason Richardson said. "We still have work to do."

The Warriors aren't likely to roll over, either. They've been the aggressors in every game, with Baron Davis providing the skill and Stephen Jackson the toughness. The Mavericks' only win came in the game Davis and Jackson were ejected from.

Nowitzki was plenty passive in Game 4 Sunday night. He seemed reluctant to shoot at times, like when he gave up an open look from about eight feet to pass to a covered teammate closer to the rim. Then in the closing minutes he shot an airball on a 3-point try.

"They really go smaller and really sit down on my legs, don't let me put the ball down on the floor the way I want to and get to my spots," Nowitzki said.

Teammate Jerry Stackhouse accused reporters of putting too much emphasis on Nowitzki.

"It's not on Dirk," he said. "You guys have made Dirk the save-all for us. We haven't. He's a part, a big part, of what we do. When teams do something to take away a big part of you, the onus is on everyone else to step up."

Despite a reputation for playing little defense, the Warriors have yet to allow anyone to score 30 points, while getting at least that many from one of their players every game.

"As long as we believe in ourselves," Davis said, "we will be all right."

 

I was just about to post this. Now everyone can see why the chances of Dallas making it out of this one alive are about as microscopic as they get.

"I've got to take what they're giving me and they're not giving me a lot". This is the same guy they're going to give an MVP award? What the heck?

Poor Avery. As much as I hate the Mavericks, Avery is the one person in that organization I actually like and I admire his passion. Unfortunately his stars are unable to share that passion with him, and it could end up costing him his job.