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Originally Posted by Jon
Do you honestly believe that Tyson Chandler was the “third/fourth-best guy” on the 2011 Mavericks?
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Absolutely.
Dirk and Terry were our best two players without a doubt and Shawn Marion was the guy who guarded Kobe/LeBron/Durant/Wade/Westbrook (you know, the best players in the league). I'd also argue that Kidd was every bit as important on offense as Chandler was on defense, so, yeah, I could even make the argument that Ty the fifth-best player on that championship squad...
But you go ahead and keep pumping up Chandler's importance during that run - the revisionists are already crediting him for guarding Aldridge and Bynum, even though the incredibly-worthless Brendan Haywood was the guy who gave them fits... By the time the offseason is over, I'm sure you'll be crediting him for Dirk's lefty lay-in over Bosh, Kidd's Game 5 buzzer-beater against the Heat and, hell, why not give him Terry's record-tying three-pointers against the Lakers too?
Seems like we'll just have to agree to disagree on Tyson Chandler, but feel free to come back and say "toldja so" if he happens to maintain this level of play over the duration of his contract.
And if you want to keep harping on and on about him, then go ahead and start a new thread about it - Deron and Dwight might be the reason we let him go, but speculating that the Mavs could've repeated if we brought him back has nothing to do with that. The general desire for the "Mavs suck without Chandler" crowd to turn this entire board into one big Tyson Chandler ass-bleeding is getting old.