at When: Thursday, November 11, 2004 Where: American Airlines Areana, Miama FL Time: 7:00 CST TV: TNT Records: Dallas: 4-1, First, Southwest Miami: 4-0, First, Southeast Probable Starters <u> Back Court</u> Devin Harris vs Dwyane Wade Josh Howard vs Eddie Jones <u>Front Court</u> Marquis Daniels vs Rasual Butler Dirk Nowitzki vs Udonis Haslem Erick Dampier vs Shaquille Oneal Injury List <u>Dallas</u> Tariq Abdul-Wahad Pavel Podkolzine <u>Miami</u> Jerome Beasly Matt Frejie Dorell Wright Key Matchup The Big Men Erick Dampier Vs Shaquille Oneal Mavericks only inside presences vs the most dominat player in the game.. uhhh nuff said there Edge - Shaquille O'Neal Key Bench Players Jason Terry - 13.5 ppg 1.50rpg 3.0apg Damon Jones - 9.8 ppg 3.8rpg 3.3apg X-Factor Michael Finley - No Michael Finley for the Mavs, he is out at least five games. Could this be an advantage for the Heat? Keys to the Game: <u>Dallas</u> Contain Shaq. Get more offensive rebounds than Miami Get to the freethrow line as much as possiable Play Hack a Shaq if the game is close. Try to draw fouls on Shaq <u>Miami</u> Take advantage of the Finley Injury Get the ball to Shaq. Outrun Dallas. Use Wade in a lot of picks. Cut off the ball from getting to Dirk Dee's Predection: I think we have a replay of last year, sucking on the road, we have depth this year but whe dont have Shaq. Heat by 9+.
Caron Butler isn't on the heat anymore. I believe Wesley Person is the starting SF. Josh Howard will probably play the 3, while Marquis Daniels plays the 2. And I also have a feeling that we will not win today. Hopefully the Mavs will prove me wrong. Another point, I think the X Factor is either Jason Terry or Alan Henderson. Jason Terry can come out and be a spark off the bench sometimes, while he is also capable of coming out and taking wild and stupid shots, like he did in the game against Golden State a few days back. Alan Henderson will also determine how well the Mavs are going to play. If he comes out and hustles like the game against the warriors where he came out and grabbed a ton of offensive rebounds and hit clutch free-throws, we have a good chance. One more thing, the team has to hit it's free throws. They haven't been doing such a good job so far this season. Seriously, we didn't have to goto overtime with the Warriors if we hit our freethrows. If i recal correctly. our team hit around 66% of our free-throws that game. TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!
Yeah i just caught that one.. my badd.. lol I agree with the freethrows, I mean how could Dirk miss it. Hes done that alot latley.. missed the key freethrows, sometimes he dosent know how to respond to the pressure, he needs to pick up on that one.
I say Dallas wins... You can give Dwyane and them 30 points a piece... The Heat's bench is nothing compared to ours, and hopefully this will be the game that starts to show people that 3 or 4 players added to garbage isn't a championship caliber team.
Devin Harris is starting over Jason Terry now? Anyways this is going to be a great game and I can't wait to see Shaq and Dwayne against Dirk and Damp. Dwayne Wade has been so fun to watch lately and he is leading his team to victory. I also want to see Josh Howard and Marquis Daniels in this one because they are showing signs of being stars in the NBA.
How do you do that preview stuff? Everywhere I go I see the player matchups and stuff do you do that manually or is there a code?
You do it manually and it usually takes at least 45 minutes. Give Credit to these guys who go and make these previews. It takes a lot of work and basketball knowledge.
What a shootout for Dirk tonite!!!! Mavs offense was so smooth and Heat never caught up. Nellie got his players ready for the game after a rough loss at Orlando. The game wasnt close as I thought, a nice win anyway.
Yeah Dirk with 41 points and 10 rebounds! That was awesome. You Mavs fans are so lucky to have a guy like him that can do so much to help his team win. Dirk is a great defender, scorer, three point shooter, and rebounder. When you combine all of those things you get a terrific player.
Oh yeah Dirk scored 41 on them boys! What a game, they played great D too, I think the Mavs will previal this year. Man I hope they play like this all season.
damn, wade got injured. Dirk did well today, props! Can't wait till they play raptors, i might get tickets.
Dirk shot the lights out, Mavericks were on point in every aspect of their game. I think we can expect this a lot during this season. Watch out NBA, the Mavs are here to stay
