dirk is the most valuable player on the mavs team..closely followed by nash..then fin and bradley.
the mavs can kiss their playoff season goodbye without dirk.. however, nve or aj could play solid enough pg for the mavs to maybe survive in the playoffs..and at the two guard, well, fin is an integral part of this team but 2 guard is the easiest position to replace on the court.. you could always get enough minutes out of griff, nve, and rig to cover for fin if he was out during the playoffs.
obviously, there would be a drop off..but the mavs would be much better off than with missing dirk or nash.
what about bradley?..well, the mavs are probably gonna come to a point to where it is almost a certainty that they must have solid play out of bradley in the playoffs if they hope to advance..versus the kings or spurs most notably
Who's the MVP? at this point, i'd have to go with kg, dirk or kidd.. kidd will likely slump..his shooting will start to fall enough to where "I" would throw him out of the running. He's just not a good shooter and it will eventually show up at some point.
Dirk, well, he's not quite shooting well enough but he's getting there. he's gonna need to up his scoring average to around 24 per game though and keep his rebounds around 11.
Garnett, solid all around year but he's not a winner so you can skim over his numbers a bit. you need him in the 4th in an important game, well, he won't be there.
obviously, people like duncan and shaq can instantly get back in the race. duncan has struggled a bit so far this year, but his season is picking up.
in the end, it should be a 4 man race between dirk, kg, kidd, and duncan.
kidd, he'll begin to struggle shooting the ball but the East Coast media bias will keep him in the race
KG doesn't have a heart and will choke on his chicken in the 4th quarter of many crucial games.
Dirk will lose some votes because a few people will still struggle with realizing who the best player on the team is..and who the most valuable player is
Duncan, he is the spurs and we'll see how well they hold up over the long haul
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