<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pjcolpitts? @ Mar 14 2007, 09:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>And What did I say about how Diaw and Marion couldnt gaurd Dirk and Howard?Also, Amare gave up 11 offensive rebounds to Dampier in this game. I give credit to the Suns for winning the game, but Dallas shot horribly on the FT in the last 4th quarter where Dirk shoots 2-4 and Howard shoots 1-2 on the line. If we make those shots, the Mavs win in regulation.</div>The same could pretty much be said about any Suns/Mavs game as they always seem to come down to the last play or 2. Take the December game for example, the Suns were right there with Dallas and could very well have won it had Raja Bell not dribbled the ball off his foot right before Dirk nailed that jumper.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pjcolpitts? @ Mar 14 2007, 09:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, players miss shots. Dallas shot a horrible percentage from the field and had a ton of turnovers that weren't forced by the Suns. I'd say that it was more on the Mavs than it was on the Sun defense. Yes Nash had a few great defensive plays that changed the game, but lets be honest, he didnt hold Terry in check or anything. Dallas makes Diaw useless, Amare cant blockout at all and Marion cant guard both Dirk and Howard. Bell cant gaurd both Harris and Terry. Also, this is a regular season game. I'm not taking anything from the Suns win, but lets not give them the championship yet.</div>Diaw took himself out of the game like he has done several time this season. After those Dallas threads a week ago and everyone being in love with them over the regular season, give the Suns some credit for this game. They played great and showed that Dallas isn't far ahead than them, ev.en though they HAVE to win the next game to for it to have any effect. If Dallas wins the next game they'll have the mental advantage again and that'll hurt the Suns in the playoffs...but anyway, give the Suns their credit. No one said Marion would shut Dirk down but he made good defensive plays at the end and so did Nash to pull away
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pjcolpitts? @ Mar 14 2007, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah, players miss shots. Dallas shot a horrible percentage from the field and had a ton of turnovers that weren't forced by the Suns. I'd say that it was more on the Mavs than it was on the Sun defense. Yes Nash had a few great defensive plays that changed the game, but lets be honest, he didnt hold Terry in check or anything. Dallas makes Diaw useless, Amare cant blockout at all and Marion cant guard both Dirk and Howard. Bell cant gaurd both Harris and Terry. Also, this is a regular season game. I'm not taking anything from the Suns win, but lets not give them the championship yet.</div>In the first game, a game that didn't stretch to regulation, Amare had 13rebs. He is averaging 10 for the season. He is a presence, and changed a few shots in the paint. While the Mavs outrebounded the Suns BADLY, give me the added presences of Amare and Thomas over what they had last year. His rebounding got them within 2pts of the Mavs in December, and helped win the game today. While the rebounding was horrible tonight and can't be allowed in the playoffs, they still won the game. That has to be encouraging.No one is giving them the championship yet. Dallas still has won 2 of the 3 games this season, and probably should have won this one as well. But this is a HUGE confidence booster for the Suns, and now that they know they can beat the Mavs, it will make things go a lot smoother from here on out.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Mar 14 2007, 11:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>OMG...!I can't believe it. And ballerman, that's what Nash has that Kidd doesn't. 10 points in 55 sec! Amazing game.</div>5 of them were free throws which he got lucky to get the foul call...But yeah, he played a hell of a game all around. Holy sh*t though! Amare Stoudemire was absolutley amazing tonight! 13 consecutive shots made or whatever....Jason Terry was on fire, Stack played great, Dirk had big plays...This was just one hell of a game with people making clutch shot after clutch shot. definitely a thriller.Even though Dallas should have won this game in regulation, it was definitely exciting. Dallas played stupid though....Unnecessary fouls at the end of the 4th to allow Phoenix back in the game.
Man you guys are complaining, and analyzing an s***. I'm just happy I was able to witness such an incredible game. :worthy:
In all seriousness though, Iavaroni better have a better defensive gameplan next time or else they need Kurt Thomas to lead drills on boxing out. Hopefully they were analyzing some match-ups and find ones that'll be more effective next time. We can't win if Stackhouse and Terry do this regularly. I say let Dirk go off, just put Diaw on him so he can keep him under 40 for 5 out of 7 games and let Marion go against Howard and have Bell on Terry, someone his own size, for the whole time.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>And what happened in the finals last year? What happened against Phoenix 2 years ago? It all comes down to Dirk choking in close games. Dirk also was choking against Houston. He is not dependable in big games.</div>Just stop being a Mavs fan then with bullcrap like this. You point out his misses but forget his winners against the Grizz, Spurs and Suns. Kneejerkers are about as worse as bandwagoners.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ballerman2112 @ Mar 14 2007, 09:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>5 of them were free throws which he got lucky to get the foul call...But yeah, he played a hell of a game all around. Holy sh*t though! Amare Stoudemire was absolutley amazing tonight! 13 consecutive shots made or whatever....Jason Terry was on fire, Stack played great, Dirk had big plays...This was just one hell of a game with people making clutch shot after clutch shot. definitely a thriller.Even though Dallas should have won this game in regulation, it was definitely exciting. Dallas played stupid though....Unnecessary fouls at the end of the 4th to allow Phoenix back in the game.</div>Point still stands, he deserved that foul and is one of the best free throw shooters of all time, which someone else is not.I can't believe how badly both teams choked away leads. That's not like Dallas and Phoenix hasn't done it this bad since very early in the season. Best game I've seen in a while, if it was a Game 7 I may have gotten a heart attack and thrown up a couple times, seriously.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Mar 14 2007, 11:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>In all seriousness though, Iavaroni better have a better defensive gameplan next time or else they need Kurt Thomas to lead drills on boxing out. Hopefully they were analyzing some match-ups and find ones that'll be more effective next time. We can't win if Stackhouse and Terry do this regularly. I say let Dirk go off, just put Diaw on him so he can keep him under 40 for 5 out of 7 games and let Marion go against Howard and have Bell on Terry, someone his own size, for the whole time.</div>Eh, I'd put Marion on Dirk, and make Howard beat you. He still isn't totally developed offensively, and while he can catch fire, I'd much rather him go off than Dirk. marion showed 2 years back and tonight that he can take on Dirk and keep him from going off.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nitro1118 @ Mar 14 2007, 09:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Eh, I'd put Marion on Dirk, and make Howard beat you. He still isn't totally developed offensively, and while he can catch fire, I'd much rather him go off than Dirk. marion showed 2 years back and tonight that he can take on Dirk and keep him from going off.</div>You got a point but for that reason I think they might be able to limit Howard's numbers while they'd be lucky to get Dirk to his average of 25..we'll see what they decide to do.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rok @ Mar 15 2007, 04:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Just stop being a Mavs fan then with bullcrap like this. You point out his misses but forget his winners against the Grizz, Spurs and Suns. Kneejerkers are about as worse as bandwagoners.</div>The mavs deserve all this bullcrap. They did every screwup in the book in the 4th quarter. They would've pretty much sealed the number 1 seed with this win and blew it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The mavs deserve all this bullcrap. They did every screwup in the book in the 4th quarter. They would've pretty much sealed the number 1 seed with this win and blew it.</div>So what mavsfan. We blew a regular season game out of how many? You don't win championships in the regular season and we still got a good lead on 1st seed. Your just kneejerking because your a baby, bottom line. And great job on responding to calling Dirk a choker on games and then not even bothering to my response to his game winners during the playoffs. Go kneejerk off.
O, I wanted to note on another thing. Did anybody see the last offensive foul that they called on Amare? What a terrible call...I dont even think that his elbow hit Buckner or whoever it was. It might have been Stackhouse...I cant remember. But that was such a bad call, and I cant believe that they didnt get a worse reaction out of Amare.And also, I cant believe that Dirk got a tech called on him. Even though he was complaining too much, the ref shouldnt have called that. It was too close of a game, and you arent suppossed to call those kinds of things in that close of a game.Just a couple things I wanted to note on.And ASUFan, its not like Jason Kidd couldnt make 1 out of 2 threes and 5 consecutive free throws, and a layup. And say Kidd wouldnt take the two threes, their are plenty of other players on that team that could make at least 1 out of 2 attempts. I am not taking anything away from Nash, because he played great at the end of the game, but it wouldnt be THAT hard to be duplicated.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rok @ Mar 15 2007, 04:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So what mavsfan. We blew a regular season game out of how many? You don't win championships in the regular season and we still got a good lead on 1st seed. Your just kneejerking because your a baby, bottom line. And great job on responding to calling Dirk a choker on games and then not even bothering to my response to his game winners during the playoffs. Go kneejerk off.</div>For every clutch shot Dirk makes up to it by choking miserably. Remind you these choke jobs are some of the worst I've ever seen in my life. The suns of the 90's are the biggest choking team of all-time though.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>For every clutch shot Dirk makes up to it by choking miserably. Remind you these choke jobs are some of the worst I've ever seen in my life. The suns of the 90's are the biggest choking team of all-time though.</div>Some of the worst eh. Besides the Miami series which was a team effort in blowing it, not soley on Dirk, your other mentions are not the worst ever. Especially with the Houston series, Dirk struggled but we still came out of the series winners, so how that even clarifies as a choke job is a stretch on your part. And the Suns series, Dirk more than made up for it last year against the Suns with his effort. Nitro is right on your flip-flopping, I mean weren't you singing praises for Dirk and the Mavs before this game. Now after this game, your ripping them. Give me a break.
mavsfan1000 continues with his stupidity. First it was 1- Dirk is a better passer than kobe2- Tony parker>iversonNow it's Dirk is a choker. Do you actually read what you post? How can a person who claims to be a mavs fan say Dirk is a choker? I guess you have the attitude of "what have you done for me lately". You're the reason why I would support stupidity being a bannable offense. You post the same rubbish at spurstalk. I think it's time you take in the criticisms and change.
