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wilmtalk · 01-13-2011, 01:14 AM

I wouldn't get a Hari Kari mood about this situation. It's not as bad as it seems to some of you. Yes what looked very good now seems not so good. That does not mean that it makes sense to get off the path Dallas is on now.

This team was configuered to complement Kidds strengths and limit his libilitys. This type of team requires ball movement and team flow. Both J Howard and Caron initially did not fit into this concept. remember how frustrated most of use were with Butler early on. Caron became a valuable asset only when he began to play a role within the system rather than a one on one player. All we need to do is replace the role that he played not the player he was before the change. This is what some of you don't seem to understand. You find it hard to grasp that a players value is variable and depends on how well they fit into the team flow. We don't need to have a major scorer. In fact a major scorer would in fact disrupt the flow of the team and negate the strengh of the present roster.

Dirk is a very special player in that his lack of ego allows him to be a scorer and still play within the offensive flow of a team concept. When this team traded for J Kidd out of desperation they over paid. That affected their options for future moves. Because their gamble to win a champianship that year did not pan out they essentially traded away their future obtions. It took years to reconfigure this team to what it developed into before the rash of injurys. Notice how well they played. That was truly a team. To trade for a high profile scorer would in essence be starting over again. And unless it had an immediate enough impact to secure the champianship it would be again robbing the future for a long shot at the present. You never get something for nothing. You could argue the Lakers did. But the piece they got had more value to them than it did for Memphis. And most important they were not trading out of desperation.

A desperation trade at this time would be folly. Don't you think other teams know the situation and are waiting to soak the Mavs. You never trade out of desperation. Does anyone think that the other teams are stupid enough to make trades with the mavs so that they can get back on top? It is to their advantage to wait. They will only do so if the deal is totally in their favor which is what the Mavs don't want to do. Deal out of desperation and you get soaked. Making a major trade to acquire a piece that will not win the champianship imediately while giving up other pieces that are also essential is plain stupidity. We traded away too much in the Kidd deal that left us with too many other holes to fill with what we had left. It took us till now especially Chandlers acquisition to build the right team. Haven't we learned our lesson.

01-13-2011, 01:14 AM	#83
wilmtalk Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 416	I wouldn't get a Hari Kari mood about this situation. It's not as bad as it seems to some of you. Yes what looked very good now seems not so good. That does not mean that it makes sense to get off the path Dallas is on now. This team was configuered to complement Kidds strengths and limit his libilitys. This type of team requires ball movement and team flow. Both J Howard and Caron initially did not fit into this concept. remember how frustrated most of use were with Butler early on. Caron became a valuable asset only when he began to play a role within the system rather than a one on one player. All we need to do is replace the role that he played not the player he was before the change. This is what some of you don't seem to understand. You find it hard to grasp that a players value is variable and depends on how well they fit into the team flow. We don't need to have a major scorer. In fact a major scorer would in fact disrupt the flow of the team and negate the strengh of the present roster. Dirk is a very special player in that his lack of ego allows him to be a scorer and still play within the offensive flow of a team concept. When this team traded for J Kidd out of desperation they over paid. That affected their options for future moves. Because their gamble to win a champianship that year did not pan out they essentially traded away their future obtions. It took years to reconfigure this team to what it developed into before the rash of injurys. Notice how well they played. That was truly a team. To trade for a high profile scorer would in essence be starting over again. And unless it had an immediate enough impact to secure the champianship it would be again robbing the future for a long shot at the present. You never get something for nothing. You could argue the Lakers did. But the piece they got had more value to them than it did for Memphis. And most important they were not trading out of desperation. A desperation trade at this time would be folly. Don't you think other teams know the situation and are waiting to soak the Mavs. You never trade out of desperation. Does anyone think that the other teams are stupid enough to make trades with the mavs so that they can get back on top? It is to their advantage to wait. They will only do so if the deal is totally in their favor which is what the Mavs don't want to do. Deal out of desperation and you get soaked. Making a major trade to acquire a piece that will not win the champianship imediately while giving up other pieces that are also essential is plain stupidity. We traded away too much in the Kidd deal that left us with too many other holes to fill with what we had left. It took us till now especially Chandlers acquisition to build the right team. Haven't we learned our lesson.