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Originally Posted by Janett_Reno

Dirk needs a center to play in the game. A problem is, other coaches and teams and Avery is making Dirk the center. Now everyone dunks and layups on us.

1.Avery won't play our centers against teams that run us. We normally will lose.

2.We have no shooting guard.

3.We have no one besides Harris that will play in the painted area. Dirk tries sometimes.

4.We have no back up pg against running teams or good stand still defensive teams.

5.Harris is hurt.

To remedy our problems. Get a back up pg. Barea is a midget and is not consistent. Terry is a shooter, so we have no one to break down a defense besides Harris. Dirk does, if he has room to operate and someone getting him the ball at the right times. Get a shooting guard. Avery doesn't like Hassel, Eddie Jones has nothing left, Stackhouse is a bomber like Terry. Get a Maggette or Mike Miller. Atleast Miller will shoot a good %, is tall, and he will also go to the basket and dunk the ball or layup. Yes, his defense is lacking but we are either playing midgets out front or 40 year olds that can't move anymore and none of them besides Hassell can play defense out front for us now(Terry, Stack or Jones).

We need a big tall phyiscal player in the middle that can score. That guy from Wash we tried to get would have been good, Blatche or whatever his name is. The problem is everyone wants Harris and Howard. Those are our big time players, along with Dirk. Instead of going with more defense, taller, physical, Avery goes smaller, less defense and plays Don Nelson style. Why?

Alot of teams in the nba, along with Avery is taking our two centers out of the game and making Dirk center. That is the wrong way for Dallas to play. We do not need to match to other teams but make them match to us. We aren't and yes this is Averys fault. Look at last nights fast break points and in the paint points again. We lose. We also need Harris back bad as he makes us go.

What i think is that we're unstoppable when we are pushing the ball and passing unselfishly (see games 1 and 2 of the nba finals 2006), when we set up the offense for isolations and only jumpshots we usually lose. We need a center or a SG badly, if you look closely you can see that we are playing 3 on 5 on the offensive end most times, defenses only respect harris, howard, and dirk no one else. I think the mavs should try and get Kellena azubuike(SG) from the warriors or brendan haywood(C) from the wizards. Either one of these will give us scoring and defense that we desperately need.