GDT Game 25 - Mavs (6-19) at Jazz (16-10) 9:30 ESPN/FSSW

[EricaLubarsky]

Jazz are a tough team in both rebounding and defense-- two things that give us fits, which means it should be an easy win. It's also nationally televised, which is good for us.

Injuries
Dirk - Achilles - indefinite
JJB - hamstring - a while
Bogut - knee - a while
Mejri - Ankle - questionable (?)


Biggest question? Who starts at center with Bogut and Mejri out? Do we go Powell? Hammons? Go small?

[Bryan_Wilson]

Easy win.

[Budapest Maverick]

Should be a very straightforward loss. On a sidenote, Gobert needs to win DPOY this year. Kid is a freakin' beast on defense.

[BPo001]

I imagine Hammond gets decent burn. Need someone with size so Gobert doesn't have a career night.

[CGM]

Let's see that otter dance to some tunes otter than Jazz... tonight is Country Western!

Mavs - 106
Jazzed Otter - 104

[sefant77]

The Jazz are so young and talented, our otter is jizzing allready

In other news, i think we should try to trade for Otter Porter from the Wizards.

[yahyes]

Interesting how there's still a shot to get into playoff contention. We can still rest Dirk while trying to get these wins. Now if they can try another game against Utah with a win. That'd be an upgrade.

[sefant77]

#8 is useless crap and #7 and better out of reach...lets tank

[Melonhead]

You can see why Rick could get irritated by Mejri. He complains after every foul. Problem is a lot of his arent fouls. But his complaining pits him against the referees and they have an extremely short leash with him for some reason, which is where the T just came from.

[Melonhead]

Can anyone explain how Powell can NEVER hit a jumper? I cant wrap my head around it. Its always on target, but either a tad short or a tad long. He can never straighten it out

[Melonhead]

Poor Powell...Gobert abusing him

[Cerberus]

Hood loves playing against us

[Underdog]

Good loss.

[mac222b]

Phew. That was a close one.

[Bryan_Wilson]

Had to record this one and watch it late. Mejri really does get out of control a lot when fouls are being called on him.. And he almost throws child like tantrums after calls it seems. We found out why Hammons gets no minutes tho... he's a ways away from being able to defend without fouling and he didn't seem to know where to be on offense a whole lot.

Good competitive loss though.

[Budapest Maverick]

Thank you D-Will for being a flipping idiot! That was a lot closer than it should have been, but I'll take the L.

[EricaLubarsky]

Thank you, Rodney!

Also, thank you Deron. We almost accidentally won.

We don't need wins. We need balls.

[EricaLubarsky]

Deron is the new testicle mammal around these parts

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by Melonhead

Can anyone explain how Powell can NEVER hit a jumper? I cant wrap my head around it. Its always on target, but either a tad short or a tad long. He can never straighten it out

Powell is somewhat of a lost cause. He doesn't really do anything consistently well outside of the occasional lob dunk.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

You almost wonder if Deron did that on purpose for otter's sake. Seriously, the guy has been in the league long enough to know better.

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart

Powell is somewhat of a lost cause. He doesn't really do anything consistently well outside of the occasional lob dunk.

Powell is vastly overpaid and Barry NBA talent. It's just a fact.

[rimrocker]

Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart

Powell is somewhat of a lost cause. He doesn't really do anything consistently well outside of the occasional lob dunk.

Yeah I couldn't understand why we resigned him for what we did. He's the ultimate tweener 4/5 who lacks PF skills and isn't big enough to hang with the true centers of the league.
He brings some energy off the bench but is more suited to be a situational/insurance guy than a regular rotation player.
He's kind of a liability on both ends.

[rimrocker]

Originally Posted by Melonhead

Poor Powell...Gobert abusing him

I'd like to see the Mavs find a way to find some type of deal to package any combination of Anderson/Powell/Hammons/Bogut/Harris/Barea/DWill/our 2nd pick to bring in a legit young center with size that has some upside.

No idea who that might be but if one becomes available I think all of those guys are expendable and that is a position we should target.

We will most likely draft our future PG so I'd think we should start looking for at least a strong backup quality center with starter potential via trade at the deadline.
I'm perfectly happy with Curry taking on the JET/VC/NVE bench role to make JJ and Harris expendable and DFS/Brussino makes Anderson a nice expendable trade asset imo.

[SMC0007]

Deron clearly did that because he wanted to quiet the crowd that had been heckeling him all night long. He saw a wide open look and took it....unfortunately with 9 seconds left. lol. Emotion overides logic.

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by rimrocker

Yeah I couldn't understand why we resigned him for what we did. He's the ultimate tweener 4/5 who lacks PF skills and isn't big enough to hang with the true centers of the league.
He brings some energy off the bench but is more suited to be a situational/insurance guy than a regular rotation player.
He's kind of a liability on both ends.

He was kept because he was the only remotely positive thing that came from the disaster that was the Rondo trade.

[mac222b]

Originally Posted by rimrocker

Yeah I couldn't understand why we resigned him for what we did. He's the ultimate tweener 4/5 who lacks PF skills and isn't big enough to hang with the true centers of the league.
He brings some energy off the bench but is more suited to be a situational/insurance guy than a regular rotation player.
He's kind of a liability on both ends.

What's weird is by all accounts he's a hard worker. Just seems to lack confidence(and size, strength and a jump shot. And ability to finish and play post D). One of the more underated aspects of being a good athlete. Confidence. Simba may have some of the same lack of mental makeup to make it