Carrlise has no imagination on offense, all he ran was pick and roll and isolation. Scott Brooks made zero defensive adjustments and is an idiot for switching screens. Both teams need to make a coaching change. Or Dallas is very difficult to defend and isolation and pick & roll are two effective offenses in the NBA.
If Dallas didn't exist, you mean? Even if we played a different team in the first round, we still would've faced Dallas eventually and they are flat out better than us and it's not debatable. Aldridge has a way to go until he can dominate like Dirk. But I can definitely see him doing it later in his career once he has the experience Dirk has.
By the way, I will not be surprised at all if Dallas wins their next 7 games and finishes the playoffs on a 14 game win streak. They are on and I don't think anyone can stop them.
Yeah, Dallas is hot this year (would've had the best record in the NBA too if Dirk hadn't gotten injured). But I also meant that we let the series slip from us. We could've gotten game 1 if we made our open shots (and if the refs weren't BS....but that's beside the point). We also could've won game 6 if we didn't let our lead slip and/or made our open shots again. As good as Dallas has been, I still don't see them as truly great, and I feel like it was nerves (mentality), more than anything, that took the series from us. But we've got no killer instinct. Aldridge and Roy act 'unselfishly' but they have to realize that the burden is on them, as leaders, to set examples for the rest of the team. Otherwise, we're still soft.
Might've had an even better record of Caron Butler hadn't gotten injured. Remember him? Listen to yourself. "If we made open shots" and "we have no killer instinct." That is exactly WHY Dallas IS a great team. They DO make open shots and they DO have killer instinct. You're basically saying we could've beaten Dallas if we were better than them, lol. Exactly. Our outside shooting is awful. It was awful all year and even worse in the playoffs. Dallas has completely won me over. I hope they go the whole way. And don't give me this "they're not truly great" stuff. Think how hard it has been for us to get out of the first round. Well, the Mavs have just won two rounds, including a four game sweep of the two time champions. They are now three wins from the Finals because Dirk Nowitzki just scored an 48 points in 15 shots with no three point attempts. It was a Top 20 NBA Playoff performance of All Time. They look truly great to me.
You seem to think it's normal in the NBA to get a decade before you have to produce anything. 2 years is typical, then you're out. McMillan is contracted to 8 years.
Carlisle is Nate on Steroids with the pick and roll and ISOs. I wonder if Dallas fans are whining about Carlisle putting his best player in a simple offensive set that had the greatest chance of him succeeding?
There's no way. It's hard to win a series when you don't have any consistent shooters. Sure if Matthews, Rudy, & Batum all got extremely hot for 16 games it could have happened, but the reality is that our team just isn't good enough on offense or defense.
If you read their message board on another site just one month ago you would've read this: 1) Carlisle is too predictable on offense 2) Carlisle has horrible substition patterns 3) Carlisle only runs two plays 4) Dallas will never get anywhere with Carlisle as the head coach 5) Barea sucks 6) Terry sucks
Go Heat!! Love seeing Wade and James in transition, but they don't have the bigs to keep up with Chicago's offensive rebounding. Bosh needs to start cleaning the glass if Miama has a chance.
Cute kid. I wanted to tell you that when it first popped up, but we were flaming on each other. I didn't want you to think I was talking shit about your kid. I have 3 of my own. 13, 11, 5
Bulls D is stifling right now. Miami needs players moving off the ball. You can't just sit and watch LBJ and Wade dribble for 10+ secs every time. EDIT: Like that with Haslem cutting down the middle.
