GDT: Dallas at Sacramento, December 4, 9 p.m. central

[b_o_r]

Originally Posted by She_Growls

Kevin Johnson, the mayor in attendance. Loved him when he played for Phoenix.

I watch the dunks on Hot rod Williams and Olajuwon daily on youtube.

[deamon]

We need trade Butler, he makes a lot of mistakes in offense.

[Rick41]

Dirk DOES NOT miss twice in a row.

[rabbitproof]

Dirk invented the alphabet just to spell his own name.

[dude1394]

holy crap...I think al gore's mansion just decreased it's carbon footprint, the dirkster missed one.

[LetsGoMavs]

Dirk once again with a brilliant pass

[Underdog]

Haywood showing up...

[Rick41]

Dirk Stockton!

[She_Growls]

Throw it down Haywood!

[dude1394]

conme on one more stop and score...

[EricaLubarsky]

lawl Poo Jeter

I dont know which name is worse

[Rick41]

Originally Posted by Underdog

Haywood showing up...

Dirk is making EVERYTHING easy peasy lemon squeezy for him tonight.

[dude1394]

ugh...brendon at the line is an ugly thing. That one fact will get your rear end on the bench boy.

[rabbitproof]

Way to clamp down defensively.. after allowing 46 in the first 15~ minutes.. Mavs locked shit up good.

[esoteric562]

eh down by 1 not bad

[rabbitproof]

Poor Matrix. He kills his own FG%.

[EricaLubarsky]

wow we were a roll away from the lead at the half

[dude1394]

dang shawn..

Good job, get your head right with ball and shut 'em down.

[Bayliss]

Mavs settled down and are back in it. Now ratchet up the defense.

[FINtastic]

Originally Posted by dude1394

ugh...brendon at the line is an ugly thing. That one fact will get your rear end on the bench boy.

I have to admit that I busted out laughing when the Kings announcer said that he had a chance to tie it at the line.

[j0Shi]

Queens wont hit the century mark. They are just that bad after a 37-point 1st quarter.

[rabbitproof]

Not to get ahead but Haywood > Chandler last night and Haywood = Chandler tonight.. works kind of nice. If Chandler is bringing it, he is on another level but if he is in trouble, Haywood gets more minutes and Haywood responds to more minutes so it about evens out.

[FINtastic]

I'm glad we got it back to a one point game after that atrocious first quarter. Time to lock it up boys!

[Rick41]

Originally Posted by Bayliss

Mavs settled down and are back in it. Now ratchet up the defense.

In 2003, I would of laughed at you for saying that.

How times change...

[RareMilk]

No way one of the teams keep shooting above 50% coming out of the locker room. But one team will have a huge dip in FG%.....I'm talking about the Kings

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by FINtastic

I have to admit that I busted out laughing when the Kings announcer said that he had a chance to tie it at the line.

Damn is that sad or what..It's like a turnover when you throw it down there to him...it really has to screw with your mind if you are trying to make the right basketball play.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by rabbitproof

Not to get ahead but Haywood > Chandler last night and Haywood = Chandler tonight.. works kind of nice. If Chandler is bringing it, he is on another level but if he is in trouble, Haywood gets more minutes and Haywood responds to more minutes so it about evens out.

Win-win.

[GermanDunk]

Not bad. I did not expect them to come back this fast.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by rabbitproof

Not to get ahead but Haywood > Chandler last night and Haywood = Chandler tonight.. works kind of nice. If Chandler is bringing it, he is on another level but if he is in trouble, Haywood gets more minutes and Haywood responds to more minutes so it about evens out.

It is weird...haywood has such a problem getting started doesn't he?

[tcat075]

Just got home. What's the best link for the game?

Also, what was up with the 37 points in the 1st? Just hot shooting by the Kings (Evans does have two treys, so that makes me thing there was at least some fluke to it) or has the defense sucked?

[Dirkadirkastan]

Got 'em right where we want 'em.

[Dirkadirkastan]

Originally Posted by tcat075

Just got home. What's the best link for the game?

Also, what was up with the 37 points in the 1st? Just hot shooting by the Kings (Evans does have two treys, so that makes me thing there was at least some fluke to it) or has the defense sucked?

There were a couple defensive breakdowns and silly fouls, but there was a stretch where they hit like 12 consecutive shots, mostly settling for long jumpers.

[dalger]

This is one of those games to remind us why we need Dirk and want Roddy back as soon as possible. Guys like Jet, Caron, Marion and Kidd can be so off sometimes that you have no idea who could score other than Dirk. Hopefully, Roddy can lead us to being less dependent on single players.

Being on the 2nd night of a B2B against a crappy team after a great win is always difficult, especially mentally. That said, I don’t think (and hope) that the 1st quarter has a lot do with fatigue since the Kings are on the 2nd night of a B2B as well. On top of that, most of our players don’t average heavy minutes anyway. Butler, Chandler, Marion, JJB, Stevenson and Haywood all play less than 30 minutes a game, Kidd and Jet are in the low 30s. We shouldn’t be too tired. It just seems to be a throwback to last season when we would let bad teams constantly have a great time against us due to a lack of effort and/or mental fatigue.

Still, I’m pretty sure we’re going to win this.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by GermanDunk

Not bad. I did not expect them to come back this fast.

Darn drunk german..here is what happened...

Dirk Werner Nowitzki - 17mins, 8/10 fgs, 3/3 fts, 4 assists..

[Bayliss]

Haywood's free throw shooting is baffling. He should just shoot them underhanded. He might get laughed it but his hitch in his shot is fugly.

[rabbitproof]

Cousins was killing us. Things started to settle before he went out but when he went out, the Mavs sealed it. Need to clamp him down in the 2nd half and this should be a good wrap.

[tcat075]

Originally Posted by Dirkadirkastan

There were a couple defensive breakdowns and silly fouls, but there was a stretch where they hit like 12 consecutive shots, mostly settling for long jumpers.

That's what I was hoping/expecting. Still, though, this is like our 7th game in 10 days or something crazy like that, so blaming fatigue is a viable excuse for these guys if they do seem a little slow tonight.

[xrobx]

well, butler seems to play down (up?) to his competition. hopefully he comes out strong in the third and gets back in the groove. i knew he was due for a bad game. i'm just glad it was against the kings

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by dalger

This is one of those games to remind us why we need Dirk and want Roddy back as soon as possible. Guys like Jet, Caron, Marion and Kidd can be so off sometimes that you have no idea who could score other than Dirk. Hopefully, Roddy can lead us to being less dependent on single players.

Being on the 2nd night of a B2B against a crappy team after a great win is always difficult, especially mentally. That said, I don’t think (and hope) that the 1st quarter has a lot do with fatigue since the Kings are on the 2nd night of a B2B as well. On top of that, most of our players don’t average heavy minutes anyway. Butler, Chandler, Marion, JJB, Stevenson and Haywood all play less than 30 minutes a game, Kidd and Jet are in the low 30s. We shouldn’t be too tired. It just seems to be a throwback to last season when we would let bad teams constantly have a great time against us due to a lack of effort and/or mental fatigue.

Still, I’m pretty sure we’re going to win this.

Kings got their rear ends whooped so bad last night that I expected them to come out with a lot of energy...If they can sustain that we could be in trouble...

[rabbitproof]

Originally Posted by Bayliss

Haywood's free throw shooting is baffling. He should just shoot them underhanded. He might get laughed it but his hitch in his shot is fugly.

He's not great historically (61% career) but it's been mental this year. Not sure going underhand would fix what's really wrong.