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All season I hear the "this is Dirk´s team" song.

He has to take more shots, he has to accept that this is his team, he is the leader, Nelson has
to adjust to this, blah blah.

Now that it is Dirk´s team, he´s getting all the shots, the recognition and we have become a one-man show most of the nights, and suddenly we´re on the decline. Just because we won a couple of games more, just because we finished tied for best record, just because we made drastic improvement in pts against and almost any defensive category, just because there was not the slightest doubt about us making the playoffs, getting homecourt, ... just because that our team is better?

Maybe it´s the constant disrupting of everything that the Mavs do, or don´t, the demand to blow the team at the trade deadline, after the critizism the year before, when the team WAS changed at the trade deadline, maybe all that nit-picking about Nellie, Cuban, our roster, maybe all of this is the real problem.

How about trading all those doubters in the fans for guys willing to support their team when it´s needed and wait with critizing until it´s time for critic, and see what happens next?

If perception is about expectation, which it is in most cases, won´t you agree that you have to change your expectation first?

While everyone was cheering, and beeing confident about the powers and strengths of our team and Coaches, they kept winning. When the journalists, Cubans personnell policy and the Fans started getting into the heads of our guys, we started losing. Why not trade THEM?