Total agreement with you murph. The Mavs would take a major step back without Finley, but not as far as TheKid thinks. Seattle will continue to implode and Portland will explode. Neither team will make the playoffs. Houston will make the playoffs next year (with or without Webber). Even without Finley the Mavs are more talented than Denver.
I like Finley better than any other player on the Mavs, but I recognize how easy it would be to sign another shooting guard. Will he be able to do everything that Finley did? NO CHANCE! But will Dirk continue to get better? YES! Will the rest of the young team get better? Probably. Our team will probably fall to the level of the Timberwolves, 7th to 8th seed in the playoffs. And we will get SO crushed in the first round of the playoffs.
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