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Originally Posted by Bayliss
Dallas is deep! Dallas is stacked! Unfortunately the way Dallas is stacked is like Jenga. And once a piece is removed.... it is no longer "stacked."
And had Stevenson not turned his game around and Butler still performing like he was early in the season... the Mavs would be a middle of the pack team. Yeah, yeah, I know... if and buts and candy and nuts...
Noe are the Mavs really deep with Caron hurt? Nope.
And where the hell is news on his injury? Damn, it doesn't take that long for an MRI does it?
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Dirk is the only piece for which your first point is true. The Mavs are thin only at the very top of the depth chart. For the top of the bench, bottom of the starters group, they are stacked enough that they've been able to fill out an elite level of starters with whichever "average" player is playing over his head at the time, and still have a full rotation good enough to keep them in the top 5 teams in the league.
And good grief - he said dallas was thin on paper to start the year. I guess that was when Robo was off the paper, Dojo was on the D-league roster, Caron's injury was already written down, and the starred note at the bottom of the page was Haywood's attitude. Double arrgh and an extra good grief! Where Dallas isn't a deep team, it's due to stuff that's happened off paper, not on.