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Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:08 pm**

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:10 pm**

Foty in da house!

Go teh MAVS!!!

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:11 pm**

Dirk, the Terminator, classic Foty, totally classic!!

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:26 pm**

Terry goes for 27

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:35 pm**

^^ AT least. I was thinking 31, but you're close! :rofl:

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:04 pm**

Why is stack starting and terry sitting? I think avery is overthinking again

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:23 pm**

Maybe not, maybe he's planning on starting Terry but making it look like he's going to start Stack. Chess game so to speak...

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:27 pm**

catalyst wrote:Why is stack starting and terry sitting? I think avery is overthinking again

Well, I would say that from March 8th to March 27th (B4 his groin injury) he was starting and was fairly sucessful.

10 games
27.6 MPG
14.5 PPG (48.8% FG, 41.5% from 3, 83.3% FT)
3.4 APG
2.6 RPG

You can't blame Avery for going back to what worked.

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:30 pm**

New Orleans is favored to win by 4 points.

O/U is 193.5

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:38 pm**

Damn Vegas, we'll show 'em who's gonna win I tell ya!

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:48 pm**

To advance, the Dallas Mavericks must follow the leader

Dirk Nowitzki has made a career of defying basketball norms. No 7-footer has ever been in the conversation as the best long-range shooter in the game. Germany is not exactly a hotbed of basketball talent. Deferential players seldom make great leaders.

When the Mavericks traded for Jason Kidd, Nowitzki went to Avery Johnson before Kidd's first home game and suggested a change in the way the starting lineup was announced. Kidd was returning to Dallas after being traded in 1996 and Nowitzki thought it would be great for Kidd to be the last player introduced.

As often happens with Nowitzki, however, that gesture was misread. Kidd came to Dallas with a reputation as one of the great leaders of his basketball generation. And here was Nowitzki, some thought, already turning over the keys to the franchise, symbolically saying: "It's your team."

Perhaps Nowitzki's greatest achievement as a player, however, is that some perceived weaknesses are actually strengths.

The fact that he went out of his way to welcome Kidd was not because he was abdicating his role as the team leader, it was precisely because of it.

"He could have made it a lot harder," Kidd said. "There's no doubt. But he's low maintenance. Not knowing who he really is on the other side, you don't know what superstars are like. And then to come over here and see how low maintenance he is, how easy going is just amazing. He just wants to play and win."

That was evident -- again -- on April 2 against Golden State when the starting lineup was announced and Kidd was the first player to come out. Nowitzki had been out for 11 days with a high ankle sprain and mild knee sprain and the normal recuperative period is at least three weeks.

But there he was, in his rightful place as the last player introduced. He played 27 minutes, scored 18 points and led the Mavericks to their first victory over a playoff-caliber team since the Kidd trade. After missing four games and watching the Mavericks struggle, Nowitzki made a resounding statement:

This is my team.

Link

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:52 pm**

I expect to see the Arena fill up very late. The interstate system is absolutely dreadful right now with the President in town.

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:00 pm**

President?

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:08 pm**

Smirk wrote:I expect to see the Arena fill up very late. The interstate system is absolutely dreadful right now with the President in town.

Maybe the Hornet fans won't show up at all. :wink:

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:23 pm**

JES12 wrote:President?

Of the United States? You might have heard of him.

And the President of Mexico? And the Prime Minister of Canada (or whatever the hell Canada has)?

They are having some big summit here. North American Union or some BS.

All I know is there are protesters and its taking me forever to get anywhere.

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:55 pm**

At least you didn't have the Pope

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:26 pm**

This trapping strategy seems to be working very well.

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:37 pm**

wow, the hornets must have made something like 80% of their shots in the first

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:38 pm**

actually 71% in the first... 39 points, thats just crazy

Posted: **Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:40 pm**

italy_23 wrote:actually 71% in the first... 39 points, thats just crazy

I have to say that it seemed like they were wide open half the time whereas we are working hard for each of our shots!

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