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Originally Posted by SMC0007
My point was never that CP3 doesn't make us better and perhaps give us a better chance. It was that you can't sum it all up with, "our problem last year was we didn't have a second star." We have tried to have a second star for years now and it just hasn't been enough. Jet, Howard, Kidd, butler. I'm not saying I know or can chalk it up to 1 single thing. Perhaps there was more than one problem.
The more of those things you have, the higher our chances of winning it all are. The teams like LA, Boston, Orlando, Denver, Miami, perhaps S.A. are close. They all have a low post option, some better than others and most better than ours. Same thing with penetrators.
There hasn't been many teams that have won it all without a post presence. Chicago was the only team that you named that had significant success without a force of some sort down low and maybe that even depends on what you think of Dennis Rodman. But then again Jordan was the best player probably ever. The only other team that I can remember off the top of my head was Detroit and even with them Sheed provided some inside game.
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I think you are overrating the "post presence" some of these teams have. I'm assuming you are talking offensively here because the Mavericks aren't lacking defensively in the post (which is much more important in the grand scheme of things these days). Why does low post scoring matter so much when we have an efficient scorer in the high post like Dirk? In the end, this game comes down to whether you can put the ball in the basket efficiently. It's nice to have a guy that can do it down low because generally it's easier, but you can do it without that guy if you can put the ball in the basket from other areas.
And Chris Paul is going to solve your penetration problem singlehandedly. With Paul and Dojo on your roster (assuming we keep him), I don't think penetration will be a weakness.