[EricaLubarsky]

honestly think this offense will be as smooth as we've seen in a long time and Dirk's burden will be the smallest its been in years.

We've got two guys very capable of driving and challenging offenses (Mayo and Collison), a hall-of-famer that has the offensive versatility to both threaten a score from anywhere on the court and to drive with purpose, and we have a douple of guys that can play in the low and mid post (Brand in the right post, Kaman in the left post).

That will make the game incredibly fluid and open for other guys to succeed.

Teams can't leave the middle like they did last year without Chandler because we now have Brand, Kaman and Wright.

Teams also can't pack the mid-post and dare us to shoot it because we have a number of competent shooters (Dirk 37%, Collison 36%, Mayo 36%, Carter 36%, Dahntay 43%, West 36%) and a few guys like Roddy, Marion (in the low 30s) that can shoot just well enough to keep the defense honest.

Either they double the superstar and we take advantage of it, or they defend Dirk 1-on-1, but they can't cheat off the inside or outside to swarm the middle, which will be an underrated improvement this team made and I fully expect the eFG% to go up a lot and the PPG to be up a bit too. I can't tell you how many times in the last few years that Dirk was neutralized because there was a swarm of 3-4 players that were lined up around the key, waiting for anyone (Dirk) to penetrate. There were also a lot of times last year where the weak side defender could leave his man to double Dirk because there just wasn't a low-post player that could catch and finish down low.