Official GDT: Bulls @ Mavs - 02/07/09 - 7:30pm CST

[Bayliss]

LonghornDub, it was a great win. They let it slip away and somehow grabbed it back. But let's also not downplay that the Mavs struggled against a sub 500 team at home and it took 44 points and OT for them to win and keep pace with the rest of the West.

And now with Terry being out a month, those 30 games just got a lot tougher... making the Utah game a lot more importan than we thought. Other teams (Spurs) might survive with losing their second best player. The Mavs can't survive with Terry out. They just don't have enough weapons or the gritty defense to do it.

[BGMaverick9]

Originally Posted by Bayliss

LonghornDub, it was a great win. They let it slip away and somehow grabbed it back. But let's also not downplay that the Mavs struggled against a sub 500 team at home and it took 44 points and OT for them to win and keep pace with the rest of the West.

And now with Terry being out a month, those 30 games just got a lot tougher... making the Utah game a lot more importan than we thought. Other teams (Spurs) might survive with losing their second best player. The Mavs can't survive with Terry out. They just don't have enough weapons or the gritty defense to do it.

This almost seems like a bit you're doing now. You kept going at it over the course of the game, and you're still doing it now. I thought they were meaningless games? I told you stuff is going to happen to make things interesting for everyone.

The fact that they might not survive isn't because they don't take advantage of the situation. It's simply because they don't have the weapons to stay afloat. This was a game they could've easily lost, but they bounced back...I'll take it.

They struggled for multiple reasons: Dirk was struggling early, Josh got in foul trouble and Jet got hurt. It's not like you can account for those things in your pregame strategy. They had to be adjusted on the fly and they were able to do so.