Official Last Game Of The Regular Season Game Day Thread Rockets/Mavericks 7:00 CDT

[left texas]

Ninth consecutive 50 game win season on the line. Will we play SA, Den, or Houston in the playoffs? Tonight we find out all the answers.

I am man enough to take the backlash if we lose, but I do know one thing, we are not playing LA in the first round.

Go Mavs!!

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If Dal wins and SA wins - Dal is 6 and plays #3 SA
If Dal wins and SA loses- Dal is 7 and plays #2 Den
If Dal loses and Den wins - Dal is 7 and plays #2 Den
If Dal loses and Den loses- Dal is 7 and plays #2 Hou

I think that looks like the simplest breakdown.''

It's simple for the Mavs -- but rather odd for the Rockets, who visit the AAC on Wednesday night with, as Followill notes, "Houston has a chance to be anywhere from the No. 2 team to the No. 5 team. It's crazy.''

[DubOverdose]

I want a win, and I want the Spurs to win...

[MavsX]

craziness

[Lor20]

me 2. still not sure about the tiebreaker rules but spurs or blazers are both fine with me!

[Maringa]

Remembering how the Mavs play when there is a huge burden lifted off their shoulders (not having to play the Lakers in the first round), they tend to lay an egg. Houston has much more to play for than Dallas tonight - they are playing for home court. I expect a 10-15 pt. loss to the Rockets tonight...

[Quetzalcoatl]

Maringa is right, the team tends to relax when there is nothing important for them, but I hope the Mavs fight for the sixth place and over all, for the 50th victory of the season. Don't break the record. Go Mavs!

[Mavsfan4ever]

I'm of the mind the Mavs realize they have something to fight for in a 50 game season and they 6th seed.

[purplefrog]

Imo, it's not difficult to find reasons for the Mavs wanting to win this game.

1) Given the closeness of 2-8 seeds, it's not far-fetched that both the 6 & 7 seeds win their first series. You want that shot at HCA in the second round.

2) A loss at home to a team that might be your first round opponent is never an acceptable final game of the regular season (see Lakers '09).

3) The 50 win/season streak is on the line.

4) The last couple of games were not sterling performances by the Mavs. It's best to enter the playoffs on a positive note.

5) C'mon we're playing the Rockettes! Ya can't lose to the Rockettes.

I'm sure there are more. But that's the top 5 of my list.

[AxdemxO]

GO MAVS

...this should be good : )

[alby]

good luck, left texas

[Dirkadirkastan]

Don't predict we "lay an egg" at home against a team we would probably face in the playoffs as a result, you p*ssies.

Go Mavs, get 50 wins finally.

[croco]

Even if we don't move up, it's still an incentive to play for 9x50.

[mary]

You know, I popped on to a spurs board this morning. The very first post I read suggested that the Mavs might not want to win tonight so they can avoid playing the Spurs.


Yeah...right.

[jthig32]

Originally Posted by mary

You know, I popped on to a spurs board this morning. The very first post I read suggested that the Mavs might not want to win tonight so they can avoid playing the Spurs.


Yeah...right.

That is delusion at its finest.

I'm not saying I *expect* to beat the Spurs if we play them, but I feel pretty good about our matchup. Heck I wanted to play them before Manu went down.

[DirkFTW]

[SMC0007]

Josh playing tonight? That could determine a win or loss.

[Flacolaco]

The Rockets will get tired of reading this GDT title about halfway through and just surrender, scurrying home like little girls, crying as they go. That's how long this GDT title is.

[antoinewalker]

i hope jason terry drops 30 points tonight.

[GermanDunk]

I´d better watch the game tonight

[Mavsfan4ever]

I'll be watching the Mavs game on tv and have the Hornets/Spurs game playing on the comp.

[pm276]

Originally Posted by purplefrog

Imo, it's not difficult to find reasons for the Mavs wanting to win this game.

5) C'mon we're playing the Rockettes! Ya can't lose to the Rockettes.

I'm sure there are more. But that's the top 5 of my list.

LOL! Rocket beat Mavs 2:1 this season so far. BTW, Yao was out for the game Mavs won. So what makes you believe Mavs can beat Rocket? Mavs will have a hard time guarding Yao tonight for sure.

[MaVs0541]

we should win and i hope sa wins so we can play sa rather play them then denver and mavsfanforever where do you watch the games online at ?

[Mavsfan4ever]

Originally Posted by MaVs0541

we should win and i hope sa wins so we can play sa rather play them then denver and mavsfanforever where do you watch the games online at ?

This is the site a friend introduced me to for it.

http://www.channelsurfing.net/

[MX425]

Let's go mavs! I think we come out hungry for a win. I think 50 wins means a lot to guys like Dirk and Terry who will be sure and keep us in the game. I will be at this game with a couple of my friedns who are Rockettes fans, I really want to be the one gloating on the way home.

[Mavsfan4ever]

I was just on another site and had someone tell me the Mavs are a soft team that really makes me mad when people discount us like that.

[Sportstudi]

Go Mavs!

[Zki41]

I'd feel pretty good about making the second round if we played the Spurs in the first round. Their motivation to beat the Hornets is not be the 5th seed and potentially have to play Portland or a team that has them beat in their season series (as well as Homecourt).

[antoinewalker]

i have a feeling barea is going to have a big game tonight.

[Lor20]

I just looked up the +/- stats for our season:

Name >0 <0 =0
Jason Kidd 48 30 2
Dirk Nowitzki 46 31 3
Jason Terry 43 29 1
Brandon Bass 38 39 3
Jose Juan Barea 34 42 2
Erick Dampier 32 41 6
Josh Howard 32 17 2
Antoine Wright 30 32 2
James Singleton 27 29 2
Devean George 14 27 1
DeSagana Diop 12 20 2
Gerald Green 10 23 3
Ryan Hollins 9 11 5
Shawne Williams 7 6 1
Matt Carroll 6 12 2
Jerry Stackhouse 3 6 1


and here the average +/- for all our players
Josh Howard 3.9020
Jason Kidd 3.8250
Dirk Nowitzki 2.8250
Jason Terry 1.8493
Shawne Williams 1.0000
James Singleton 0.9483
Brandon Bass 0.9125
Antoine Wright 0.8906
Erick Dampier 0.8481
Jose Juan Barea 0.0769
Ryan Hollins -0.8800
Gerald Green -1.7778
DeSagana Diop -2.0588
Devean George -2.1905
Matt Carroll -2.4500
Jerry Stackhouse -7.6000

Josh is very important for this team.

A little more interesting is it so split it up by wins and losses:
Losses:
Shawne Williams -1.5000
Matt Carroll -2.1250
Gerald Green -2.2778
James Singleton -3.0952
Ryan Hollins -3.5556
Brandon Bass -4.0312
Devean George -4.6250
Jose Juan Barea -4.7241
Antoine Wright -5.1111
Erick Dampier -5.2581
DeSagana Diop -6.4000
Jerry Stackhouse -8.0000
Jason Kidd -8.4839
Dirk Nowitzki -8.9375
Josh Howard -9.0000
Jason Terry -9.4138

Wins:
Jason Kidd 11.6122
Josh Howard 11.5625
Dirk Nowitzki 10.6667
Jason Terry 9.2727
Antoine Wright 5.2703
Erick Dampier 4.7917
Brandon Bass 4.2083
James Singleton 3.2432
Jose Juan Barea 2.9184
Shawne Williams 2.0000
DeSagana Diop 1.3684
Ryan Hollins 0.6250
Devean George -0.6923
Gerald Green -1.2778
Matt Carroll -2.6667
Jerry Stackhouse -6.6667


Lets hope we get Josh healthy and wow was stack awful in the few games he played.

[purplefrog]

Originally Posted by pm276

LOL! Rocket beat Mavs 2:1 this season so far. BTW, Yao was out for the game Mavs won. So what makes you believe Mavs can beat Rocket? Mavs will have a hard time guarding Yao tonight for sure.

I'll try to say this slowly so you can understand.

The... point..... is...... motivation...(wait, that's got four syllables).. the.. Mavs...... wanting.... to win..... should..... not..... be ...... a..... problem... because..... the....... Rockets ....... are ...... a..... division.... rival (scratch that) competitor....(yikes)... another team in the division.........and.... a team..... we....like ...... to ..... make.... fun of...... on this..... message..... board.

Hope that helps.

[MaVs0541]

Originally Posted by Mavsfan4ever

This is the site a friend introduced me to for it.

http://www.channelsurfing.net/

thanks for the site man GO MAVS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[12 Tone Melodies]

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[mavs777]

Originally Posted by SMC0007

Josh playing tonight? That could determine a win or loss.

yes, Rick has said they just "rested" him the last 2 times he didn't play because it was a back- to back

[mavs777]

Originally Posted by Mavsfan4ever

This is the site a friend introduced me to for it.

http://www.channelsurfing.net/

this site is better http://www.atdhe.net/index.html

[mavs777]

Originally Posted by pm276

LOL! Rocket beat Mavs 2:1 this season so far. BTW, Yao was out for the game Mavs won. So what makes you believe Mavs can beat Rocket? Mavs will have a hard time guarding Yao tonight for sure.

oh great a troll

Mavs didn't have Howard when the Rockets didn't have Yao, and Rockets did have Mcgrady. This is a much different Dallas team at home then they were early in the season, but feel free to continue to troll around.

[Underdog]

Rockets trolls hanging around a Mavs forum?

Are we a contender again or something??? (because I swear the trolling has been at an all-time low this season...)

[Flacolaco]

If we match up against them 2 vs 7, you won't recognize this place after game 2.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Flacolaco

If we match up against them 2 vs 7, you won't recognize this place after game 2.

You mean we'll have a bunch of Rockets fans crying around here instead of Mavs fans?

That's a change I can live with!

[DirkFTW]

We'll be needing the services of a certain saluting hamster regardless of the outcome of the series.

[Lor20]

lots of little roquettes floating about then....
we match up pretty well vs houston, we should be able to win this one.