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Originally Posted by Murphy3
Why is it so far fetched to believe that the Mavs couldn't have been right back in the thick of it if they would have brought back the team largely intact?
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The short answer is that the roster just wasn't that good. (Not to mention how much better the competition got) It amazes me how short peoples' memories are. As soon as that buzzer sounded in game 6, everyone seemed to forget that the Mavs were huge underdogs against both the Heat and the Lakers. What happened last summer was nothing short of a miracle. It was a perfect storm of extremely unlikely double-digit comebacks, and choke-jobs on the part of opponents.
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And many believe that the odds of repeating or at least being right there in the WCF or NBA Finals were higher than having a free agent superstar or landing a superstar via trade before the end of Dirk's prime.
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And those people are wrong. Even with Chandler, I highly doubt the Mavs could've gotten past the Thunder or the Spurs or even the Lakers. Maybe we would've seeded a little higher and managed to get the second round, but that's about it. Landing Deron was a 50/50 shot. The odds of getting back to the finals (or even the WCF) with the same roster from the previous year was considerably lower.