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I don't get it. Why do we want any part of Keith McLeod?
He can't do anything well in the summer league. What can he actually do at NBA floor?

Why do we want another PG? Is JET that poor as a PG?
DG deserves the spot more than he does. So is RAT or Shan Foster.

i couldn't agree w/ you more. having jet is a luxury cause he can play the point very well. i'm just glad we didn't sign mcleod to a guaranteed contract

I dont get it either

Kidd, Terry and Barea is all we need, at least Barea can shoot...

Updated：2008-07-07

Puerto Rico dug themselves an early hole that they couldn't climb out of and lost 93-86 to Greece in the championship game of the Supercup at the JAKO Arena on Saturday night.
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One certainty is that Barea appears to be one of the real stars in the FIBA Americas.

He had a game-high 32 points in defeat, while Puerto Rico also got a solid showing from Ricardo Sanchez who buried four of six shots from long range on his way to 16 points.

http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/sports/he ... 8023.shtml

Im sure he could get much more money in Europe right now but he wants to compete with the best. And this against Greece while McLeod on the other hands couldnt do **** in the SL...

I hope they waive him soon.

I don't like to use this word a lot, but I HATE Keith Mcleod, he is everything a PG shouldn't be, he is wasting space and pt most importantly, I thought Derrick Low and Ronnie Seibutis would get more time to show what they can do, but they get 16 minutes at best every once and a while, so of course when they finally do play their game has cobwebs!

A guy by the name of Jigsaw on the DMN web site posted a comment saying that The Mavs should give Petteri Koponen from the Trailblazers a look, I checked out some of the guys numbers, and his game seems pretty solid, what do you all think?

Keith Mcleod had what is call a "Make Good" contract which means that the Mavs could evaluate him on the summer league team and decide if they wanted to keep the contract. Based upon what happened in Summer league I don't think they could run away fast enough. Nobody like McLeod and I can't believe that the Mavs do either after that showing.

I think there is little chance that he will we on the 15 man roster.

And Petteri Koponen is really young and he looks very good. I don't think he is ready to be a regular rotational player but if the Mavs could get him and stash him in the D-League or Europe for another year then I think that would be good. I like him a lot more than Seibutis. Anyway I can't see the Trailblazers giving Koponen up easily.

They need to waive him and sign Aaron Miles, Miles would be a good back PG plus we could use him to guard Chris Paul.

Captain_Obvious wrote:I dont get it either

Kidd, Terry and Barea is all we need, at least Barea can shoot...

I totally agree that this McLeod dude is pure Spares-Ahoy, but I disagree that they already have all they need at PG. Kidd has got to have his minutes limited. Terry can play some PG, but they still have no one worth jack squat at the SG, so Terry will probably end up playing there a lot again (unfortunately). Barea is just plain not an NBA caliber player IMO. That brief strech where he entered the playoff game may have been the biggest adverse momentum changer caused by one player in the history of the NBA.

There is surely still a trade or two in the works.

Realmavsman wrote:Keith Mcleod had what is call a "Make Good" contract which means that the Mavs could evaluate him on the summer league team and decide if they wanted to keep the contract. Based upon what happened in Summer league I don't think they could run away fast enough. Nobody like McLeod and I can't believe that the Mavs do either after that showing.

I think there is little chance that he will we on the 15 man roster.

And Petteri Koponen is really young and he looks very good. I don't think he is ready to be a regular rotational player but if the Mavs could get him and stash him in the D-League or Europe for another year then I think that would be good. I like him a lot more than Seibutis. Anyway I can't see the Trailblazers giving Koponen up easily.

Well I know he's on their summer league, but they haven't decided to add him to their roster yet, and they only have 1 spot left. Koponen has said that if he doesn't get a contract with the NBA this season then he'll probably sign a long term deal over in Europe which he doesn't want to do, he really wants to play in the states, I think he could develop a great deal under Kidd, he's already spent time with the likes of Scottie Pippen, if the Blazers sleep on this kid, The Mavs need to snatch him up.

I do like Aaron Miles though, as well as Jajuan Smith, and though I hate to say it, I love JJ Barea and Antoine Wright, but the Mavericks started filling up roster spots too fast, even though they said they'd play the field and wait a while, kind of like how they said they'd wait to hire a new coach.

mrmreg,
i agree that Barea cost us our lead we had in the first q in game 5 but i believe we had no scorer on the court at the same time, so he had to overdribble trying to find his shot or open spots...

But i refuse to judge him on that 5 minutes he got in the playoffs and the 5 mpg he got in the regular season. That was a typical Avery move, throw in a player after not using him the last 4 games and frame him with struggling scorers. Barea did get his chance though.

Maybe its too early to call that point guard rotation final because Terry will help out at SG but i believe Barea is an NBA caliber player. I thing he can succeed in an uptempo offense to take full advantage of his speed and he can score a lot like in that Greece game (that team plays good D as they're used to play together for many years). He wont sniff the starting 5 on any NBA team, he sure isnt that type of talent i agree. Besides we have no better options than him.

Barea was subbed into the game with 3-4 other bench players. Who takes out the entire starting line-up after working hard to actually gain a lead? Don't blame it on Barea that he was out there with 3-4 other scrubs against the NO starters.

I have no clue! Do you know why we want him, Dirk?

WE DONT

Kidd/Terry/Barea should be the only PGs on the team. Terry's may not be a great starting PG, but he's more than qualified to be the backup.

I really have gotten to like Aaron Miles... especially improving his offense.

Darren wrote:I don't get it. Why do we want any part of Keith McLeod?
He can't do anything well in the summer league. What can he actually do at NBA floor?

Why do we want another PG? Is JET that poor as a PG?
DG deserves the spot more than he does. So is RAT or Shan Foster.

You don't. You really, really don't.

I hate to talk about people like mcloed, singleton and the likes. if the core of this group remains dirk, terry, howard, kidd, we are in trouble.
go donnie, go mark, do something!

italy, I still believe (as others do) that a Bass, Stack, Jones trade could net us a quality swingman. We could use Rhodes in the Bass role, Green in the Stack role, and R. Terry in the Jones role. It's younger, but in reality that's what we want.

I'd be all over it. make it happen!! I need a quality 2!