Depth or too much talent?

[rakesh.s]

Coming into this season, the mavs picked up stack and terry...and they traded for Van Horn...This was supposed to add "depth"

Right now, the mavs seem to have a collection of talent as opposed to players that know their roles. There are a couple of guys on the team that need to shoot the ball or they can't/won't contribute - stackhouse, finley, dampier, van horn and terry to some extent.

Dirk is going to be THE GUY on this team - 20+ shots and Dampier, when healthy must get at least 10 shots..You cannot expect a big man to rebound and block shots for you if you don't reward him on the other end.

Prior to the all star break, Stackhouse and Daniels were both out...Josh Howard and Dampier were both in a groove and the team was playing very well.

It seems to me that the mavs need to do away with a few of these players..yes, it means getting rid of "talent" but it's going to improve the team...The mavs need to replace finley and stackhouse(only because of age and being injury prone) with 3-pt shooters ala kyle korver and slashers/rebounders like josh howard that don't demand 20 shots a game, but play well within an offensive scheme.

The '02 team had a nice set of players - big 3 and van exel were the shooters and you had role players like walt williams, griffin(defensive stopper) etc etc..They didn't do too bad iirc..

The problem right now is that Van Horn's contract expires next year and surely the mavs are going to trade him for another player whose contract expires in '07 or '08...The cycle never seems to be broken..[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-frown.gif[/img]