What needs to happen to ensure we make it to the second round?

[JeffViggiano]

Originally Posted by CadBane

Aldridge
Andre Miller
Batum
Gerald Wallace

There you go. All four are all-around better players than Jet. Jet is a better scorer than Batum, maybe. But Batum is superior in every other aspect (better three point shooter these days, too.)

brandon roy(without knee)
and maybe Oden if he can plays.

[markus1234]

Originally Posted by j0Shi

I won't argue anything and agree that he is basically right. Only one thing: Where was Bill Simmons at the trade deadline suggesting to trade Roddy because he will end up as a poor man's Tony Parker?

At the trade deadline Roddy was still injured and Simmons is not in the gym.

It was Carlisle's and Nelson's job to evaluate Roddy between Nov. and Feb....

ps: “Roddy is a very popular Maverick when it comes to receiving phone calls,’’ Mavs GM Donnie Nelson said on Thursday in announcing Dallas’ lack of trade-deadline activity.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by markus1234

At the trade deadline Roddy was still injured and Simmons is not in the gym.

It was Carlisle's and Nelson's job to evaluate Roddy between Nov. and Feb....

ps: “Roddy is a very popular Maverick when it comes to receiving phone calls,’’ Mavs GM Donnie Nelson said on Thursday in announcing Dallas’ lack of trade-deadline activity.

They chose....poorly...

[j0Shi]

Originally Posted by markus1234

At the trade deadline Roddy was still injured and Simmons is not in the gym.

It is Carlisle's and Nelson's job to evaluate Roddy between Nov. and Feb....

ps: “Roddy is a very popular Maverick when it comes to receiving phone calls,’’ Mavs GM Donnie Nelson said on Thursday in announcing Dallas’ lack of trade-deadline activity.

Yeah, but criticizing a deal (or the lack of) that turned out to be a mistake is easy. By the way: Several teams were high on Roddy as the quote tells you. So we were not completely wrong to keep him at THAT point. Nobody tells you how a possible deal for, lets say, Wallace or Prince would have turned out. Who says that those guys would perform for us now? Don't get me wrong. The way things have developed I have no doubt that one of them would help us more than Roddy right now, but you have no guarantee that with other circumstances Bill Simmons would have been writing this:

"Our front office decided Roddy was tradeable, which sounded good on paper because he was injured, but then he came back and started playing (for Detroit / Charlotte), and now it's just plain awkward. So far he's looked like a second Tony Parker. The Dallas employee who decided Roddy was tradeable must have been the same guy who guaranteed those 1400 temporary seats would be done for Super Bowl XLV. To be honest, I have no idea how we ended up with a 3-seed. We're going to lose in Round 1 or Round 2. Crap."

[markus1234]

Yes, but i fear Roddy is a poor man's Josh Howard. (...traded way too late)

A soft jumpshooting ballhog with zero BBIQ. A guy who is very athletic and attacks the basket...but only in theory.

[mavs777]

Originally Posted by markus1234

Yes, but i fear Roddy is a poor man's Josh Howard. (...traded way too late)

A soft jumpshooting ballhog with zero BBIQ. A guy who is very athletic and attacks the basket...but only in theory.

i wouldn't go that far, Roddy has very good speed and decent handles, lets wait a few years before going around calling him a bust.

[fluid.forty.one]

here we go...

[nowhereman]

One thing to keep in mind going to the 2nd round: the mavs could have had gerald wallace for roddy.

[fluid.forty.one]

At this point, I'm really glad we played Portland in the first round. On top of everything I mentioned in the original post, the Laker crowd probably makes the Mavs feel like they're in Dallas.