Sports Illustrated gave us a D+</p><h3>Dallas Mavericks</h3> What Went Right:</p> • Mark Cuban is looking like Jose Canseco. Like Canseco throwing around steroid allegations in baseball when no one wanted to listen, the Mavericks' owner was ranting about NBA referees, and paying dearly for it in fine money, in those more innocent days before Tim Donaghy went canary. Now people who wrote off Cuban as an overfunded fanboy have started looking not only at the "one rogue criminal'' but also at the whole system of training, monitoring and evaluating the referees. That's one way something good could come out of this summer's mess.</p> • They signed Brandon Bass and first-round pick Nick Fazekas. Somebody has to bring the doughnuts and push the ball cart now that Pops Mensah-Bonsu is gone.</p> What Went Wrong:</p> • They signed Eddie Jones. Look, Jones is a nice guy who was terrific player for a long time. But at 35, he's analog in a digital league and the Mavericks are doing him a bigger favor than he likely will do them. Even if he's only taking up Austin Croshere's roster spot.</p> • Erick Dampier has another reason to not play strong. Or maybe to play at all, for a while anyway. Dampier had shoulder surgery in June and might not be ready for the start of the season.</p> • The Kevin Garnett rumors proved to be just that. At least Garnett wound up in the Eastern Conference, rather than with Phoenix or the Lakers. Not shredding their core probably was the wise choice, but without much change, the Mavericks will be playing another whole season just to prove something in May and June. Tough way to go.</p> Grade: D+</p> Forget Cuban appearing on Dancing with the Stars. We're more concerned with Donnie Nelson tap-dancing through his offseason.</p> </p> And for you non-Mavericks fans, what do ou think of our offseason</p> </p>
Yea, they deserve that. Didn't do much at all. </p> I like the quote about Eddie Jones.."he's analog in a digital league". lol </p>
Unless Dallas picks up PJ Brown or Chris Webber I think there offseason has been pretty lame. They have needed a backup big with experience for awhile and still havent done anything about it. I'm also upset about them letting pops go :-(
