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Dirk77 · 09-08-2002, 07:47 PM

Nowitzki Named Tournament MVP

Dirk Nowitzki was the tournament's leading scorer in leading Germany to the bronze medal, its first ever in the World Basketball Championship. (Photo by Peter Bick)
Indianapolis, Sept. 8 -Versatile forward Dirk Nowitzki, who led Germany to its first medal ever in the event, was named Most Valuable Player of the World Basketball Championship on Sunday.

Nowitzki averaged 24.0 points, 8.2 rebounds and 2.0 blocked shots for Germany (6-3). In the bronze-medal victory over New Zealand on Sunday, he scored 25 of his 29 points in the first half.

Peja Stojakovic, who averaged 18.8 points to lead gold-medal winning Yugoslavia, was named to the All-Tournament Team at guard along with Argentina's Emanuel Ginobili, who averaged 16.9 points before suffering a sprained ankle in the semifinals.

The All-Tournament forwards were Nowitzki and Pero Cameron of New Zealand, the burly big man who averaged 14.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the fourth-place finishers.

China's Yao Ming, who averaged 21.0 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.25 blocked shots and shot an astounding 75 percent from the field (55 of 73) was the center of choice.

seelenjaeger · 09-08-2002, 09:30 PM

Wouldnt have taken Ming - he dominated vs. weak competition and couldnt compete with the better ones. Oberto was dominating imho. I was VERY impressed with him. Well, politics ...

irontoad · 09-09-2002, 12:15 AM

Congratulations, Dirk!

veruca salt · 09-09-2002, 04:48 AM

Pero.
hahaha, this is so amusing.

nowitzki_prophecy · 09-09-2002, 09:23 AM

yeah,the man desereved it,despite his incononsistancy.

Chef Ed · 09-09-2002, 09:34 AM

I wonder what this will do for Dirk's confidence coming into camp? It starts in less than 4 weeks, and you have to believe that he will come into camp ready to play, and in great shape. Thank goodness no Mav got hurt during all of this.
You also have to wonder about Raef. I read somewhere that he was in Karl's dog house, and he stayed there for much of the tourney. I also wonder about his mind set coming into camp.......

Rhylan · 09-09-2002, 10:36 AM

I hope that Raef is smart enough to realize that since George Karl can't coach his way out of a paper bag, that his opinions on who should play and who shouldn't don't mean very much.

If he's not, then we'll figure out a way to trade his ass, worry not my friends.

I hope he plays like a man from the get go this year, otherwise people are going to ride him pretty hard. But, I don't see any reason why he wouldn't.

Karl Shmarl. He's a dumbass. He'd probably put me out there and tell me "if you think you can take your man, take him."

pepperfletch · 09-09-2002, 11:32 AM

Rhylan is right....Karl is a out of date coach. Half court one on one play does not match up well when the opponent works as a team.

Raef will be fine, Don will pump his self worth back up and he will continue to improve....

He will play as much in the 4 as the 5 as Doin will move Dirk to 3 to play the other centers more...IMO Bradley and Ech will play more than they did this past season. Dirk will eat up 3's...

seelenjaeger · 09-09-2002, 12:17 PM

Why do you all think Dirk can still play the 3?

Sure we´ll be able to play with a tall lineup every now and then, but please try to imagine Dirk playing vs. Finley - that´s HORRIBLE for Dirk, and would hurt us more than we benefit.

pepperfletch · 09-09-2002, 02:35 PM

I am not saying he will play alot there, but against some teams he will shift over given Nelsons ci=onstant sifting to differening game situations. Not everyone is Finley, who is a better 2 than 3 IMO. Dirk could post up and dominate alot of 3's given matchups. He also will have nights where he needs to 'get away from a given PF...who knows.

You know He will play some 5 as well....We have alot of big men to get out on the floor...but Dirk still has earned 30 plus minutes...We need to play others to keep whole team rested...

Epitome22 · 09-10-2002, 04:24 AM

<< Rhylan is right....Karl is a out of date coach. Half court one on one play does not match up well when the opponent works as a team. >>

The only "Teams" to win championships against teams who play the half court game in the last decade of NBA playoff basketball are teams who play half court themselves.