Game Thread: Seattle Supersonics @ Dallas Mavericks

[Det the Threat]

After being blown out by one of the worst teams of the western conference, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Sonics will head into the Big D to play Dirk Nowitzki and his Mavericks on the back end of a back-to-back.

When and Where?

Saturday, January 19th, 6:00 p. m. PT, American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas

This game will be broadcasted by FSN NW




Starting Lineups:

Seattle Supersonics


Dallas Mavericks


Important Role Players

Seattle Supersonics


Dallas Mavericks


Team Leaders

Kevin Durant 19.8 PPG & 1.11 BPG
Kurt Thomas 9.6 RPG
Damien Wilkins1.03 SPG
Earl Watson 6.3 APG


Dirk Nowitzki 22.2 PPG & 8.4 RPG
Erick Dampier 1.57 BPG
Devin Harris 5.3 APG & 1.62 SPG

Key Matchup


Earl Watson

vs.


Devin Harris


Just for the looks




Questions:
Can we keep Howard off the offensive board?
Will we be able to contain Nowitzki?
Can Earl and Luke keep up with Harris and Terry?


Discuss and Go Supes Go!

[wiff]

Det you da man with these game threads.

Sonics are the guys in white and the Mavs are wearing Army green

[Relientk101]

sonics are going to win.

[D5150]

this is a gut check game for seattle. do they want to lose 10 in a row? if not, they have to play with energy and passion from the opening tip to the final buzzer. and for the love of god, someone please slip sleeping pills into wilkins pregame meal. maybe he will just sleep through the whole thing.

[jenn_gp]

add another loss to our record.

[chrisjr88]

Is there a separate channel for FSNHD? I've always watched it on channel 30 but I could have sworn I heard that there was an HD channel for FSN

[D5150]

fsnhd is for home games only. on directv it is either channel 95 or 96.

[Yoshi2kx]

I can't believe this bull****, they're playing worse than they were in the beginning, which is, impossible.

Man, **** this team

[D5150]

did anyone honestly expect this team to be all that good this season?

[wiff]

I missed the first half of this game. But I can't remember a game where the Sonics weren't down by ten in the first quarter. I know there have been a few but I really can't remember one off the top of my head.

I wasn't really a big fan of PJ in the first place but I am really questioning his grasp on the team.

When Nate was coaching a team that wasn't very good he had everyones roles defined and everyone was prepared for the task at hand.

I question how well PJ is preparing these guys and have they started to tune him out?

[Yoshi2kx]

I didn't expect them to do good, I expected 20+ wins, at this point, we'll be lucky to reach that.

I also expected to at least be respectable as the season wore on, not in a damn free-fall

[jenn_gp]

In my house, we call the first quarter the best quarter...and if the Sonics are losing by 25 or more at halftime, we turn the game off. Unfortunately, they hovered around 20-24 points throughout most of the game, so we watched the entire thing hoping for a small comeback.

I definately recommend this rule to you all. You can save yourself a lot of pain this way. Last night just happened to be what I'd call a "close" game.

What happened to this team? By the end of the November, I was encouraged by the progress we made. We were losing, but at least we were able to keep our dignity intact by keeping it close. We used to play pretty solid for 36 minutes every night. Now we can barely play 12.

[D5150]

the short answer to your question is the schedule. much tougher in jan than dec. injuries have also played a part. and as a season goes on, the good teams start to really figure out the bad teams. seattle is a bad team. period. 20 wins is probably what we are looking at right now.