I'd like to add, people always say "Oh, they've got so and so, he's long and athletic, he can bother Dirk." Josh Smith is supposed to "bother" Dirk. Dirk has just torched him in both outings, over 30 points both times. That's with a lot of hard doubles. The fact is, there is not a SINGLE player in the NBA that can really bother Dirk 1 on 1. Look at guys like Kmart, Josh Smith, Luc Richard w/ Mill, SJax, Odom. Dirk has gone off on all these guys, yet you still hear "oh, they have a long, athletic forward who can bother Dirk." No, they don't. No one does.
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