How many wins do you think the Mavs will end up with this season? I think they could reach the 70 win mark if they keep it up. (Not just because I'm a Mav fan either)
Hell, the way they are playing right now, I wouldnt doubt that they could get 70 wins either. They just dont really lose to bad teams, and when they play good teams, they always step up to the occassion. I think that they will end up with exactley 70 wins. I just dont see them losing very many games from here on out. And, I also predict them to win the championship whoever they play. I think that if they play the Spurs, it will be a 7 game series, and with Phoenix, it will be a 6 game series. The only other team IMO that could get 6 off of them are maybe Detroit, and a healthy Miami.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ballerman2112 @ Mar 3 2007, 04:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Hell, the way they are playing right now, I wouldnt doubt that they could get 70 wins either. They just dont really lose to bad teams, and when they play good teams, they always step up to the occassion. I think that they will end up with exactley 70 wins. I just dont see them losing very many games from here on out. And, I also predict them to win the championship whoever they play. I think that if they play the Spurs, it will be a 7 game series, and with Phoenix, it will be a 6 game series. The only other team IMO that could get 6 off of them are maybe Detroit, and a healthy Miami.</div>I completely agree w/ you.
I think the Mavs will end sumwer near the 70 win mark. they really are havin a remarkable season. Their toughest challenge will be in the Western conference finals where they will face either the Suns or the Spurs.
I think they'll get at least 82 wins they are playing so good other teams will let them have back any they lost
70 wins I don't think will be reached. When it comes down to a couple weeks before the season ends, I expect Avery to start toning down the major players minutes and expect Avery to rely on the bench for the playoff run. He should not jeopardize anything for a regular season record. He's smart and will rest his guys, resulting in losses. The reason I don't see us reaching 70.
I expect, give or take a win or loss, a 70 win season.As for the playoffs,in my eyes they still ahve to prove things to me to be the hands down favorite. And with Amare back and very much healthy in Phoenix, it will be a very tough road.
I think that we can take the Mavs when everyone on our team is healthy. But I don't see them reaching the 70 win mark for the reason Rok stated.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Mar 3 2007, 07:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I expect, give or take a win or loss, a 70 win season.As for the playoffs,in my eyes they still ahve to prove things to me to be the hands down favorite. And with Amare back and very much healthy in Phoenix, it will be a very tough road.</div>You still have to keep saying stupid things like this, making people think you are just a major hater.You may be right, they still need to play like they have recently, to prove they can win the whole thing...But EVERYONE knows they are the "hands down" favorite...why do you have to keep being so difficult?You can say you don't think they'll win the title, but they are the favorites, and I don't know how even you can go against that.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Marvinmartian @ Mar 3 2007, 09:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You still have to keep saying stupid things like this, making people think you are just a major hater.You may be right, they still need to play like they have recently, to prove they can win the whole thing...But EVERYONE knows they are the "hands down" favorite...why do you have to keep being so difficult?You can say you don't think they'll win the title, but they are the favorites, and I don't know how even you can go against that.</div>I think they are the favorites, but they aren't the hands-down favorites. If the Suns are healthy come playoff time I think it will be a very tight series, if they were as lucky as the Mavs with their health right now they'd have close to the same record so I say the Mavs are the hands-up favorites right now, not so much hands-down.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Mar 3 2007, 07:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I expect, give or take a win or loss, a 70 win season.As for the playoffs,in my eyes they still ahve to prove things to me to be the hands down favorite. And with Amare back and very much healthy in Phoenix, it will be a very tough road.</div>Just wondering, since you want a team that has proven they can win, why do you think PHX can do it? They haven't proven anything. If anything we have proven more by going to the Finals...
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>You still have to keep saying stupid things like this, making people think you are just a major hater.</div>That's because he is. Melo061 always ims me about what Nitro says to him and we just laugh because we see he has something against the Mavs. He'll probably reply to this, and say he has nothing against them. But that's only like in every debate he's in, he's blind to his own words.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Saint Baller @ Mar 3 2007, 09:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Just wondering, since you want a team that has proven they can win, why do you think PHX can do it? They haven't proven anything. If anything we have proven more by going to the Finals...</div>Not really, neither team has proven anything. Dallas doesn't deserve praise for choking in the Finals because we all know if Phoenix did the same thing in the Finals people would be saying it was because of their offense and they'll never win because of it. He just thinks the Suns just have a good chance to win because there's really no one on the Mavs that'll be able to contain a stud like Amare, especially with the way he's played. I hate people pretending the Mavs are on another level than the Suns when they've accomplished only a little more in twice the years of being good.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Mar 3 2007, 10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Not really, neither team has proven anything. Dallas doesn't deserve praise for choking in the Finals because we all know if Phoenix did the same thing in the Finals people would be saying it was because of their offense and they'll never win because of it. He just thinks the Suns just have a good chance to win because there's really no one on the Mavs that'll be able to contain a stud like Amare, especially with the way he's played. I hate people pretending the Mavs are on another level than the Suns when they've accomplished only a little more in twice the years of being good.</div>1. Yeah we did choke in the finals, but we did go through a western conference including your PHX Suns (Spare me the talk about them being injured..)2. Maybe people say it because it might actually be true...3. Twice the years? When? With Steve Nash? Man back then we would pray our offense gets going and we'd be up by enough so if the other team makes a push we won't have to worry. I don't call that being good, even though we had a 60-22 season with Nashty it doesn't mean our team actually had a chance against San Antonio the eventual champs who we lost to in 6..
You don't think your team had a chance when you had them in a tight series and then lost your player in the end. You may not want to hear about our injuries but it was a huge deal. It would've been the equivalent of you guys losing Josh Howard for a full season, the center of your choice for a bunch of the season and the entire playoffs and pick one of your starting guards and that guard misses 2 games and loses his speed and jumping ability(for shooting) for the rest of the series. If the teams switched roles you guys wouldn't even meet us in the WCF.To #2, it's really not true at all. Mavs fans like to pretend it's not even close because they were tired of the sh*t they got for their style of play and now the Suns are getting noticed while their not even though they did what they thought they were supposed to. And just because the Suns offense is so good and we have Nash you guys think it's the same thing you guys did, but it's not. This Suns team has far better D than any of those Mavs teams and they can actually score inside rather than just being a jump shooting team. The Mavs are just on the same level as the Suns and choking in the Finals 1 year doesn't set them apart, just like beating you guys 2 years ago fairly easily didn't really put us apart yet.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Mavs fans like to pretend it's not even close because they were tired of the sh*t they got for their style of play and now the Suns are getting noticed while their not even though they did what they thought they were supposed to.</div>Whoa, that's not true. You think Mavs fans were happy with high regular season wins and early playoff bounces. We knew that style would never win a championship. And that is why we welcome this change after years of high powered offense/little defense whimpers of a season. Fun to watch and root for, but it got old for me. I do agree with half of the assessment you made about the Suns getting more notice for the run and gun style. All of a sudden people who bashed it are saying it's a winning formula for a championship. Give me a break bandwagoners! People just jumped on it and went back on their past words about defense winning championships. It made me sick. And it isn't like the Mavs were the pioneers, past run and gun teams like Run TMC were bashed. So I find it ridiculous how perceptions changed so quickly. Obviously Suns fans are welcoming the praise and have high hopes but I'm tired of their talk as well. Playoffs are on the horizon, we'll see who the better team is then.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Mar 3 2007, 11:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You don't think your team had a chance when you had them in a tight series and then lost your player in the end. You may not want to hear about our injuries but it was a huge deal. It would've been the equivalent of you guys losing Josh Howard for a full season, the center of your choice for a bunch of the season and the entire playoffs and pick one of your guards and that guard misses 2 games and loses his speed and jumping ability(for shooting) for the rest of the series. If the teams switched roles you guys wouldn't even meet us in the WCF.To #2, it's really not true at all. Mavs fans like to pretend it's not even close because they were tired of the sh*t they got for their style of play and now the Suns are getting noticed while their not even though they did what they thought they were supposed to. And just because the Suns offense is so good and we have Nash you guys think it's the same thing you guys did, but it's not. This Suns team has far better D than any of those Mavs teams and they can actually score inside rather than just being a jump shooting team. The Mavs are just on the same level as the Suns and choking in the Finals 1 year doesn't set them apart, just like beating you guys 2 years ago fairly easily didn't really put us apart yet.</div>1. No, I don't think we had a chance, that Spurs team was destined for the 'chip and we weren't, the game 2 of that series showed a huge thing for us, we couldn't stop the main guy. Yeah, Dirk was injured and with him we could have MAYBE tooken it to 7 but I highly doubt that, the only reason it went to 6 was because of amazing play by Micheal Finley...2. Isn't that the advantage of being a deep team?3. Not saying it isn't close, but the Mavs are on another level than the Suns.. The Suns are close to that level, but quite aren't on it.4. On some levels you are right. When the Suns adopted that style of play to go along with Steve Nash and it did what it was supposed to it really did get to some Mavs fans. Honestly tell me, if your team stopped running and did what all the analysts and champions did by slowing down the game and playing in a half-court set and some team out of no where gets praise and championship contentions for doing what ya'll did for SO MANY YEARS wouldn't it piss you off the slightest?5. Sorry but your wrong, ya'll are giving up right now 102.8 ppg while the Mavs of 2003-2004 gave up 95.2... try again.6. The only statement I kinda agree with, the Mavs did only shoot and the Suns do go inside some times but the Suns do tend to shoot more if they are tempted too and that kills them.7. Yeah we choked, I said it before, but we beat ya'll and San Antonio to get there and we were worn out. And yes, when PHX beat us 2 years ago it was on every analysts articles saying the Mavs can't win, Suns for the championship, the Suns are a full step ahead of the Mavs....Fact is the Mavs are on another level that no body in the NBA is up too. And until someone gets to that level us Mavs fans will continue to say we are on another level.
2. Even if you guys had the depth that you did you still wouldn't be a contender like the Suns were that year.3. They really aren't on another level, if both teams were healthy the whole season they would have very close records, not what it's at now. The Suns are just as good.4. It would piss me off greatly, just like how it is now with Mavs fans not even thinking the Suns are much of a threat because of the style they play when they really are.5. Check out the difference in point differentials though, the Suns are a better scoring team so therefore will be in higher scoring games. When they are healthy they keep teams to low FG%'s and can cause some turnovers and block some shots. We also have a better rebounding team than the old Mavs did.6. Sometimes, but if they really need inside scoring Amare has the ability to dominate and no one on the Mavs can contain him.7. We played 2 7-game series and had some big injuries and we took you guys to 6...More impressive than losing a 2-0 lead and a big lead in Game 3 against a much inferior team after a 6-game series.You Mavs fans can continue being homers if you wish, you'll just be even more crushed when you lose if you fail to see how close the Suns are. It's dumb to pretend that it's a fact. These teams are both at the same level, both are ahead of the pack.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>You Mavs fans can continue being homers if you wish, you'll just be even more crushed when you lose if you fail to see how close the Suns are. It's dumb to pretend that it's a fact. These teams are both at the same level, both are ahead of the pack.</div>I'm not a homer Asufan. I could care less about our great season so far. This means sh*t to me, I don't want a record breaking REGULAR season. I want a championship and if we don't win one, I will be extremely disappointed.
