Game 6 November 9, 2008: Mavericks at Clippers

[crucifixx]

Bareaaa

[studcrackers]

this team sucks

[dashthemavfan]

And say hello to your 2-4 Dallas Mavericks. Unfortunately this team doesn't look like it has an 06-07 run in them.

[mavsfoty]

The 2nd Unit is so wishy washy.

[ppp000]

stick a fork in the mavs. sign of a mediocre team is ups and downs, inconsistencies, over-reliance on one player, and a truckload of excuses from the FO.

[HMFFL]

Los Angeles shot a high percentage and made 9 3-pointers. We managed to create more turnovers but it's hard to compete when our opponents aren't missing on offense.

[mffl_14]

Los Angeles shot a high percentage and made 9 3-pointers. We managed to create more turnovers but it's hard to compete when our opponents aren't missing on offense.

I would tend to agree with this if we hadn't already played crappy against Denver and then we come out like this against an 0-6 team coming into today. No excuse bottom line they sucked

[cmavswin]

What does it say when Gerald Green leads the team in rebounds? That said I think if Josh would have played today the Mavs would have won. The bench and Terry were pathetic today and since Stack played "well" today I bet he gets torched by Kobe on Tuesday.

[JES12]

Well, I'm glad Bass was a 2 year deal beacuse last year I would have used the entire MLE on him. The last two games makes me 2nd guess that.

To itsgotime...if Bass continues this, I will admit I was wrong and you were right. Not ready quite yet.

And Terry, WTF?

[HMFFL]

Los Angeles shot a high percentage and made 9 3-pointers. We managed to create more turnovers but it's hard to compete when our opponents aren't missing on offense.

I would tend to agree with this if we hadn't already played crappy against Denver and then we come out like this against an 0-6 team coming into today. No excuse bottom line they sucked

Well, your right, and you can tell that just by looking at the box score. Los Angeles scored more point not just during the first, but the second, third and fourth.

[myconsumerclub]

I complain about Terry and then he has one good game then we get all excited and think maybe he's going to pull it out and do something good but nope the suckers out there get giddy and the realists know it's only fools gold and the Jet will cool sooner than later and today we see him miss 11 shots then he has the audacity to pump his fist in the air like see there told you so. Guess what Terry your pathetic and deserve to be benched the rest of the season.

This team does not have a very smart coach if he keeps playing has beens like Jet and Stack instead of younger players that have shown better capability. I don't care if you are trying to prop up their worth for future possible trades they need to sit and watch younger players play.

I we had Wright in instead of Terry we win this game even with Howard sidelined. At this rate we are a lottery team with no lottery pick if memory isn't failing.

[JES12]

At this rate we are a lottery team with no lottery pick if memory isn't failing.

We have our 2009 pick. The problem is our 2010 pick will be lotto also if we tank because that measn 1) Kidd will not resign and 2) Nor should he if we suck that bad.

[DDansby123]

^ Dude, Wright's not very good either. Not only has he had no offensive game at all, but his defense has been far less than advertised.

To me, it ought to be Green and Howard starting at the wings, and let those two play 35 MPG each. Give JET Kidd's backup minutes and backup minutes at the SG spot. Rotate in Wright or George or whomever you want for about 10 MPG and let every other wing rot on the bench.

[crucifixx]

We are going to get raped so badly by the Lakers

[JES12]

^ Dude, Wright's not very good either. Not only has he had no offensive game at all, but his defense has been far less than advertised.

To me, it ought to be Green and Howard starting at the wings, and let those two play 35 MPG each. Give JET Kidd's backup minutes and backup minutes at the SG spot. Rotate in Wright or George or whomever you want for about 10 MPG and let every other wing rot on the bench.

OMG, I agree!

[HMFFL]

Dirk questions effort after loss to Clippers


Josh Howard's absence didn't come close to explaining the Mavericks latest disappointment.

Pick on the defense if you want. The Los Angeles Clippers did. Of course, the Mavericks offense didn't exactly inspire poetry.

Poor defense and bad offense will do a team in every time, even when the opponent is a Clippers team that had been winless until Sunday's 103-92 breakthrough. But that only scratches the surface as to what bothers the Mavericks these days.

After the team's fourth loss of the young season, Dirk Nowitzki questioned the team's effort and said it has been coasting.

"If you don't compete hard, it's not about Xs and Os,'' Nowitzki said. "You can run whatever play you want. You can have all the schemes you want defensively. We've just got to push ourselves to play harder.

"I don't know what it is. I don't know what's going on. We don't leave it all out there, and that's what you've got to do.''

The pattern has become all too familiar in this 2-4 start. The Mavericks fall behind, fight their way back then don't have enough left in the tank at the end of the game to pull it out.

On this afternoon the Mavericks overcame an 11-point second half deficit to tie the score at 79-all with 8:10 left. The Mavericks then watched the Clippers reel off 13 unanswered points.

"It's a continuing theme,'' coach Rick Carlisle said. "Dig a hole, battle hard, get tied, sometimes get a lead and then they went on a [13-0] run.

"We're behind where we want to be.''

Look now and the Mavericks are behind Memphis in the Southwest Division.

Not only did the Mavericks offense miss Howard, they missed Jason Terry's production for the better part of the game. The team's second leading scorer missed his first 11 shots and finished 3-of-15 from the field. The Mavericks shot 41.4 percent as a team and scraped together only nine fast break points.

"For us, that's one of our strengths,'' point guard Jason Kidd said. "If we can't get out and run that puts a lot of pressure on our defense.''

A defense that allowed the Clippers to place six players in double-figures and score 19 points above their season average.

"We've got to find out how we're going to get some stops,'' Kidd said.

Nowitzki believes they need to find themselves.

"We've got to compete,'' Nowitzki said. "That's on the players, on every single one of us.
"We've got to cut harder. We've got to defend harder. We've got to rebound hard. I just think we're coasting too much right now.

"We're not good enough to coast, as you saw tonight.''

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[Captain_Obvious]

^ Dude, Wright's not very good either. Not only has he had no offensive game at all, but his defense has been far less than advertised.

To me, it ought to be Green and Howard starting at the wings, and let those two play 35 MPG each. Give JET Kidd's backup minutes and backup minutes at the SG spot. Rotate in Wright or George or whomever you want for about 10 MPG and let every other wing rot on the bench.

OMG, I agree!

Agree with DDan