Mavs - One step at a time

I think this series is not going to go less than 6, most likely 7, since it is the 2-3-2 format and those three games at home could help Miami...

I think Miami could give _allas more of a challenge since Dallas has not really played a big, strong team, and a dominnant center, unlike the Spurs in which Pop was stupid enough to play Mav's ball, but they shouldnt have made the mavs play their ball...

John

 

didn't see the game and just a fraction of a highlight this morning....how bad was the elbow to Dirk from Shaq?

 

Nothing flagrant or intentional but I'm sure getting struck by Shaq in any way shape or form can't feel good. Stackhouse got stitches in his nose after a Shaq collision.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit as much as I like Avery and the Mavs I never thought they were this good a team. Go Mavs!

 

Shaq injured about 3 people that night, pretty much by standing in place-the guy is just BIG, all he has to do is stand under(or over) the net.

 

tough game last night! We got rocked in the first and forth quarters. Wade could have closed his eyes and made shots last night. It was a great game, with a less favorable ending. Onto game 4!

Jay

 

They'll come back from the loss! I think they'll take two in Miami and close the series....I've been wrong before!

J

 

How about this for a slightly different bent: Let's hope the Mavericks lose four (4) in a row, Cuban the Doofus loses all his dot.com/Yahoo gold and the team moves out of town! Sorry.

 

David, might not want to use your real name for your avatar ! ! ! ! !

 

lol...I said its going to be an advantage for miami to have three games in miami in a row, thats what i thought would give them the only chance of winnning...on to thursday!

Spurs and Detroit should be playing each other...Damn it David Stern!

John

 

You know they (the NBA) are only in it for the money, they wouldn't let the Spurs go at it again. cuban is dishing out some serious money to make sure Dallas is where they are at right now, I just hope Miami has more heart than Cuban has money and Miami comes out on top.

 

@#$%!!!! I really thought we had this win, it was sooo close.

 

Really inconsistant foul calls in this game, but the Mavs only have themselves to blame for the prior 2 losses

 

Yup, same as Spurs Game 3 and 4.....it sucks how things dont go your way....

But mavs have the advantage now that they have the next two at home...lets see what happens...

I got $5, someone on the Mavs are going to complain about the fouls...anyone anyone....lol...jk

John

 

Call it what you want, but the Heat FIND A WAY TO WIN! Dirk missed KEY free throws two games in a row. Josh was 9 for 9 in the FREE throw department and misses the 2 big ones that would have put us up by three with 9 seconds to go. With 9 to go....you knew they (the heat) would score. Yeah....that foul on Wade was B.S, but the Mavs put the game in the refs' hands. Then the time out...WHAT THE HELL? They put the game in the hands of the refs and the Heat where they shouldn't have. Another good game with a poor ending... for us anyway

J

 

What happened is that, the Heat were inbouding the ball from the sidelined and Wade was on the Frontcourt in front of the guy inboudning but he moved around and caught the ball on the backcourt...yet, you can do that in the last 2 min of the 4th quarter...

Cuban doesnt know that rule, so when he sends his tape in of the mistakes that the refs did like he always does....his education of NBA knowledge will be shown....

John

 

^Yep, you're allowed to pass it back there. Sometimes teams go to the extreme and throw it right under the other team's rim. Dangerous to do because sometimes the other team outruns the guy, steals it, and gets 2 pts.

I'd say there was a foul on Wade even though he didn't fall to the ground or wasn't pushed down. The refs called a few BS fouls all night. A couple against Haslem and one that really stood out to me against Walker. Walker was standing still with his feet set, arm up, and Dirk took the shot. Dirk's arm moved forward and hit Walker. Walker didn't move this entire time, didn't even jump, yet a foul call against him.

Now about the last foul of the game. It looks like Harris fouled Wade. http://espn-att.starwave.com/photo/2006/0618/nba_g_wade2_412.jpg
Dirk was pushing Wade, too. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/Vladefan21/Miscellaneous/14vpao0.jpg
I think they called the foul on Dirk because Harris was in more foul trouble (I think he might've been fouled out if they called it on him). It's nothing new in the NBA. Refs will call a foul on the guy with the lower amt of fouls if the foul can be called on either of the two players. You'll see a teammate raising a hand if a foul is called to keep their other teammate out of more foul trouble if not fouled out entirely.

I've read some comments before (on other threads) about the large difference in the number of foul attempts between the two teams. Three words: Hack a Shaq. That automatically increases the number of attempts. That's not the main concern, though. What the bigger problem with doing this is that it adds to team fouls. If a team does this when Shaq is about to dunk, he'll shoot and miss two, but they're 1 foul less away from being in the penalty. So instead of Miami having to take the ball from out of bounds, they get to shoot two since they decided to foul Shaq 3 times before in the quarter. Then you also have the Hack-a-Shaq with close to 2 mins left in the quarter and you just add to the FT attempts.

Another thing to look for is that Miami is a terrible FT shooting team so Dallas won't be too worried about fouling them. Dallas, however, is the best in the league so Miami doesn't want them to shoot and will try to play carefully.

I don't think Dallas has anyone to blame, but themselves. They allowed Wade to get to the basket and score 17 in the 4th. They kept Wade at the perimeter in Games 1 and 2 and that's all they have to do to win Games 6 and 7.

P.S. That news reporter during Avery's conference was a *****. Just tell Avery that his team screwed up by not shutting down Wade for the 4th quarter like they did for the first 3. The call was a foul because Wade was fouled. It wasn't flagrant, but it doesn't have to be to call a foul with 2 seconds left.

Dirk should blame himself for his less than great performance. Terry is the guy who is keeping this team alive in the Finals because he will always make the open shot. If Dallas wins it all, he will be the Finals MVP. If Howard and Dirk can play better, they will have zero problems winning game 6. I also think that Stackhouse suspension was justified, I don't care if it's a pre-season game or a crucial Finals gay. The NBA has acquired a Zero Tolerance attitude towards things like this. They won't put up with players going into the crowd and won't put up with intentional flagrart fouls. Hopefully Jerry will learn to not do something as cheap as he did in Game 4 because he is a really good player. If he played lastnight in Game 5, I really think Dallas would've won. He let his team down like Terry did against the Suns.

Howard was pretty dumb to call that timeout. He saw Avery signal for a timeout, but failed to see that Avery said AFTER THE SECOND SHOT. Howard signaled to the Ref and walked to the bench. It's also not the Ref's job to read the minds of the coach. Guess what, sometimes teams call timouts at that time put pressure on the FT shooter. At the end of the day, it was Howard's fault and he should take blame. Refs are not there to ask the team "are you sure you want a TO???"

I give a slight edge of Dallas, 51-49, to win game 7 since it's at their homecourt. I won't be surprised at all if Dallas wins the next two games at home by large margins. I was surprised Miami won by close margins two times on homecourt.

 

A1, you put a lot of heart into that....lol....

You pretty much said everything that needed to be said...its up to DAllas to suck it up and play basketball and dont worry about anyone else than themselves...

Good Luck Dallas!
Good Luck Miami!

Go SPURS Go

John

 

What the mavs need to do is just forget about it and try to close out...they were worrieing about it to much...the past is the past.

this is exactly what happened with Nowin in the final seconds of the Spurs game...they called a foul and Spurs lost...

If he calls timeout even not looking at the Ref...a time out is a time out, so if they are "confirming" a timeout, something concerning a timeout had to happend...even if you just say it out loud.

John