[Lor20]

thats what i was gonna say - dirk has issues in utah because he is being mauled almost every second he is on the court and the refs don't call a lot of fouls on it. Utah is easily the dirtiest team in the nba at home and they know dirk doesn't like it and struggles with that a bit so they do it even more. Hence why he gets frustrated and T'd or fragant fould there more often than anywhere else.

If we hope to get past the first round this is a MUST win. the teams 2-8 are almost equal - anyone of them can win a series against anyone else. to beat the lakeshow the mavs would need 4 very good games and a couple of bad games from the flakers.

6th or 7th seed would be ideal because you avoid the lakers until the WCF (which is the best we can hope for this year anyways) the thing about our inconsistency is that we could pull off an upset (not sure if you'd really call it that against denver considering we are less behind denver than denver is behind the lakers)