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fluid.forty.one · 04-09-2008, 12:15 PM

I know Dirk's ankle is bad, but being the devils advocate I'd have to point out how out of sync we were going into the playoffs last year because of resting down the stretch.

Maybe <20 minutes might be good for him during the last couple games.

ShaggyDirk · 04-09-2008, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

I know Dirk's ankle is bad, but being the devils advocate I'd have to point out how out of sync we were going into the playoffs last year because of resting down the stretch.

Maybe <20 minutes might be good for him during the last couple games.

agreed. Sometimes you just have to work the ankle out in order to strengthen it. And you just can't go through life saying "what if" this happens?.

alexamenos · 04-09-2008, 01:15 PM

i dunno....i thought dirk's slidin' (and hence the team's slide) started in march, and the restin' was in part of the response to the slidin', not the other way around.

dirk's rebounding in the latter part of the year always stands out to me -- take a look at the gamelogs...link

the guy almost never went back to back games under 10 rebounds, but then in the last month of the season he only hit double digits in boards once. in his first 64 games of the season, dirk had 5 or fewer rebounds in 8 games. In the last 14 games he had 10 games with 5 or fewer boards....and it wasn't like he was playing dramatically fewer minutes, either.

i maintain that dirk hit a wall, or something, in the last month of the season, and this carried through to the playoffs. the restin' might not have fixed it, but it didn't cause it either.

fluid.forty.one · 04-09-2008, 02:25 PM

Yeah that makes sense.. and that was the year after the finals run.. plus he played with the national team as well between the seasons right? Not much rest for the big guy.

dude1394 · 04-09-2008, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by alexamenos

i dunno....i thought dirk's slidin' (and hence the team's slide) started in march, and the restin' was in part of the response to the slidin', not the other way around.

dirk's rebounding in the latter part of the year always stands out to me -- take a look at the gamelogs...link

the guy almost never went back to back games under 10 rebounds, but then in the last month of the season he only hit double digits in boards once. in his first 64 games of the season, dirk had 5 or fewer rebounds in 8 games. In the last 14 games he had 10 games with 5 or fewer boards....and it wasn't like he was playing dramatically fewer minutes, either.

i maintain that dirk hit a wall, or something, in the last month of the season, and this carried through to the playoffs. the restin' might not have fixed it, but it didn't cause it either.

Mavs moneyball has something on this.
http://www.mavsmoneyball.com/story/2008/4/8/2121/85405

alexamenos · 04-09-2008, 02:38 PM

^^thanks

dude1394 · 04-09-2008, 11:57 PM

Funny stuff..

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Post-Game: Cuban Backs Avery as Mavs Roll
Date Posted: 4/8/2008 11:32:00 PM By: Bill Ingram
The Mavs got off to a sluggish start, but ultimately managed to blow out the Sonics in a game they had to have as they continue their quest for a playoff berth. With the 99-83 win the Mavs move within two games of clinching a playoff berth, and await the Utah Jazz on Thursday.

Dallas used an 18-4 run in the fourth to put things away. Jason Terry said Avery's half time "pep talk" got his team focused and prepared for the task at hand.

Avery talked about the way he's been working to change his offensive sets since the acquisition of Kidd, which he said sparked a run of "Kidd watching" as the team got used to having a future Hall-of-Famer on their squad. Now he's got them doing a lot more cutting and moving away from the ball to help create easy shots off of Kidd's passes.

Jason Kidd decided he needed to tidy up his locker area before talking to the gathered media, so he picked up box scores and random uniform articles, saying he felt he should "clean up a little bit." He then dropped everything he had picked up on Antoine Wright's chair . . .the next locker over . . .with a big grin on his face.

Dirk usually walks into the locker room calling "What's up ladies!" - though there are actually few "ladies" in the press corps. Tonight was not different, except he called out "What's up ladies - hey HoopsHype." Brandon Bass immediately corrected him saying, "That's HOOPSWORLD, fool." Dirk shrugged at him and said, "I know - I'm just giving them (crap)."

When he got down to business, as he does when the cameras come on, Dirk admitted he's really not quite up to speed since the injury. Avery said he'd like to limit Dirk to 24 minutes per game through the rest of the season, but Dirk said he's not likely to settle for that. Should be interesting to see who wins that battle.

On the Seattle side, PJ said he felt his team played hard, but not smart. He liked what they did with their zone defense, but thought his team lost Jason Terry (22 points) too much - especially in transition. He also was very complimentary of Brandon Bass (13 points) off the bench.

These two teams will meet again in Seattle next week . . .and Jet said he has about 80 tickets set aside for friends and family in what will likely be his last trip to Seattle to play a basketball game. He was very upset about the team leaving his home town, where he grew up watching Gary Payton and the Sonics in their hay day.

Be sure to catch HOOPSWORLD TV for more from tonight's game!

And you should, there are postgame videos with kidd, dirkster, jason, josh and ko'ach..

It's kind of weird, maybe I'm missing these being at the game or something. But I see lot's of local media with microphones but I don't hear these post games very often. Are they right after the game or something?

fluid.forty.one · 04-10-2008, 12:44 AM

I just watched my favorite dirk video and it just made me so mad how much crap dirk gets from the media. He is so freaking awesome.

mav_love · 04-10-2008, 10:00 PM

what a cold-blooded, BAMF game-winner tonight by DIRK.

the fight in this guy is freaking unbelievable. NEVER QUESTION IT.

rabbitproof · 04-10-2008, 10:01 PM

nowhereman · 04-10-2008, 10:06 PM

huh this dirk nowitzki guy is pretty good

bernardos70 · 04-11-2008, 01:50 AM

Wrong thread.

dude1394 · 04-11-2008, 10:33 AM

I will call him mini-me.

Flacolaco · 04-11-2008, 10:46 AM

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I will call him mini-me.

I noticed that on the tv last night...they had a shot of Dirk doing it, and then they cut to Avery and I giggled. (I believe that was after the bs no continuation call)

Norm just said that Dirk absolutely "drowned" that 3 pointer.... Norm...he drained it. He didn't drown it.

fluid.forty.one · 04-11-2008, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

I noticed that on the tv last night...they had a shot of Dirk doing it, and then they cut to Avery and I giggled. (I believe that was after the bs no continuation call)

Norm just said that Dirk absolutely "drowned" that 3 pointer.... Norm...he drained it. He didn't drown it.

Dirk murdered that 3 pointer.

sike · 04-11-2008, 01:17 PM

Dirk seriously took advantage of that three last night...call CPS.

Five-ofan · 04-11-2008, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

I just watched my favorite dirk video and it just made me so mad how much crap dirk gets from the media. He is so freaking awesome.

is the video the one with never too late by three days grace?

bernardos70 · 04-11-2008, 02:19 PM

Terrible thread. Dirk is not randomly great, Dirk is ALWAYS great.

Lor20 · 04-11-2008, 02:39 PM

Dirks rebounds last march were down because he played through a sprained ankle and took it easy on the contact/jumping (much like yesterday vs utah) so that stat isn't all its cracked up to be. Especially since the mavs were so far ahead that it didnt really matter. I think dirk should have fully cured his ankle last season instead of playing through it. but hindsight is always 20/20.
edit: cant find which game he sprained it in - i found my old post from last year mentioning it though.
http://www.dallas-mavs.com/vb/showpo...41&postcount=3

fluid.forty.one · 04-11-2008, 03:24 PM

Jim, Around the Horn, PTI

I can't wait to heat their reaction to Dirk's shot. That wasn't even the only clutch shot of the game though for him... he hit a jumper with like 36 seconds too.

fluid.forty.one · 04-11-2008, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Five-ofan

is the video the one with never too late by three days grace?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEAG...eature=related

honorable mentions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9oONJ862SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OmE3...eature=related - not really a dirk video, but almost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v4_r...eature=related - ending sucks obviously
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vy0kI4SMvo - no pump-you-up music here, but still satisfying to watch from start to finish

jleefilled · 04-11-2008, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkEAG...eature=related

Good call...That is definitely my favorite as well.

alexamenos · 04-11-2008, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

Jim, Around the Horn, PTI

I can't wait to heat their reaction to Dirk's shot. That wasn't even the only clutch shot of the game though for him... he hit a jumper with like 36 seconds too.

it was with 29 seconds left, from around the left elbow, and it put the mavs up by 3.

I stood up out of my chair and cheered as soon as it became apparent that this shot was going to open up....there was never a doubt that dirk was gonna knock it down.

Flip41 · 04-11-2008, 03:33 PM

And I looked, and behold a blue horse: and his name that sat on him was Dirk, and the Mavs followed with him.

fluid.forty.one · 04-11-2008, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by alexamenos

it was with 29 seconds left, from around the left elbow, and it put the mavs up by 3.

I stood up out of my chair and cheered as soon as it became apparent that this shot was going to open up....there was never a doubt that dirk was gonna knock it down.

ahh, I knew it was some time around then.

good to see dirk hitting 2 clutch shots in a game right before the playoffs. I also had NO doubt that that 3 was goin in at the end.

dude1394 · 04-11-2008, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by alexamenos

i dunno....i thought dirk's slidin' (and hence the team's slide) started in march, and the restin' was in part of the response to the slidin', not the other way around.

dirk's rebounding in the latter part of the year always stands out to me -- take a look at the gamelogs...link

the guy almost never went back to back games under 10 rebounds, but then in the last month of the season he only hit double digits in boards once. in his first 64 games of the season, dirk had 5 or fewer rebounds in 8 games. In the last 14 games he had 10 games with 5 or fewer boards....and it wasn't like he was playing dramatically fewer minutes, either.

i maintain that dirk hit a wall, or something, in the last month of the season, and this carried through to the playoffs. the restin' might not have fixed it, but it didn't cause it either.

Dirk heard that ko'ach was going to go smallball and he just got depressed.

ShaggyDirk · 04-11-2008, 06:31 PM

Last night after Dirk hit the three, my wife said "what is with the pulling the jersey out from his body like that?" It does seem shallow to think that Dirk is just doing that to show his number 41 or to say he is the man. So, I didn't know how to respond other than it's just an uncontrollable man thing.

What I didn't say was, Dirk is just so humble and reserved that when he does something spectacular FOR HIS TEAM, that is how he releases the pressure built inside him. I saw one of the videos above and he was doing it probably since his rookie year.

Dirkadirkastan · 04-12-2008, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ShaggyDirk

Last night after Dirk hit the three, my wife said "what is with the pulling the jersey out from his body like that?" It does seem shallow to think that Dirk is just doing that to show his number 41 or to say he is the man. So, I didn't know how to respond other than it's just an uncontrollable man thing.

What I didn't say was, Dirk is just so humble and reserved that when he does something spectacular FOR HIS TEAM, that is how he releases the pressure built inside him. I saw one of the videos above and he was doing it probably since his rookie year.

Did you notice the "jersey tug" right after Deron's shot?

First of all, the first thing Dirk always does at halftime and after the game is untuck his jersey. I guess he just finds that more comfortable. Second, pulling the jersey up from the bottom sometimes covers up both the team name and the number, which is why it's so funny.

Flacolaco · 04-12-2008, 12:55 AM

He's such an awkward goober.

He's supposed to pull it from the top, (a la Kobe).... Dirk you are a nerd.

And that's what makes you great.

Flacolaco · 04-12-2008, 12:56 AM

Dirkadirkastan · 04-12-2008, 01:02 AM

^Yeah, see?

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

He's such an awkward goober.

He's supposed to pull it from the top, (a la Kobe).... Dirk you are a nerd.

And that's what makes you great.

What's funny is that Marc Stein picked on him for doing that during the Suns game, and he still did it against Utah. It's good to know that he puts all external thoughts aside while he's playing. And celebrating.

DevinHarriswillstart · 04-12-2008, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by dude1394

I will call him mini-me.

That is what you do with your arms when you feel like punching the ref.

nashtymavsfan13 · 04-12-2008, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ShaggyDirk

Last night after Dirk hit the three, my wife said "what is with the pulling the jersey out from his body like that?" It does seem shallow to think that Dirk is just doing that to show his number 41 or to say he is the man. So, I didn't know how to respond other than it's just an uncontrollable man thing.

What I didn't say was, Dirk is just so humble and reserved that when he does something spectacular FOR HIS TEAM, that is how he releases the pressure built inside him. I saw one of the videos above and he was doing it probably since his rookie year.

He's not doing it to show off his name or number or anything, it's just a way of celebrating, sort of like a fist pump or something. Just a way of releasing emotion, not cocky or anything at all.

Flacolaco · 04-12-2008, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirkadirkastan

^Yeah, see?

What's funny is that Marc Stein picked on him for doing that during the Suns game, and he still did it against Utah. It's good to know that he puts all external thoughts aside while he's playing. And celebrating.

Unless Stein went up to him and tapped him on the shoulder and said that, I doubt that would ever get to Dirks ears.

These guys don't have time to sit around and read the internet all day, do they?

Shoot...if I were an athlete, I wuold make it a point not to read or listen to a damn thing that anyone in the media had to say. It's all worthless.

Lor20 · 04-12-2008, 02:04 AM

i think its his way of showing he's proud to be a mav and that was one for the team (atleast thats what it kind of means here (in germany) when soccer players do that sort of thing to their shirts after scoring).

Dirkadirkastan · 04-12-2008, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Flacolaco

Unless Stein went up to him and tapped him on the shoulder and said that, I doubt that would ever get to Dirks ears.

These guys don't have time to sit around and read the internet all day, do they?

Shoot...if I were an athlete, I wuold make it a point not to read or listen to a damn thing that anyone in the media had to say. It's all worthless.

It was an interview... at least I think it was Stein, maybe it was someone else.

Dirkadirkastan · 04-12-2008, 02:50 AM

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PHOENIX -- Dirk Nowitzki stumbled about 18 times by his own count as he drove left, gathered himself with one crucial step to rattle in a fallaway baseline dagger out of nobody's textbook, then showed us his truly unorthodox move.

Nowitzki didn't pop his jersey in celebration. He tugged it from the bottom.

Instead of grabbing it at the top to puff out the DALLAS on his chest, like Kobe Bryant and everyone else does, Nowitzki commemorated the biggest basket of the Mavericks' season by pulling tightly on his shirttail, trying for the same effect.

"I was too hyped up," Nowitzki said later with a laugh, "to even know what I was doing."

It's not as clear as I thought. Since we don't see the literal question being asked, we can only guess Stein (or someone else) brought up the particular subject of the jersey pull to him.

dude1394 · 04-12-2008, 09:05 AM

I think I read somewhere that it was similar to a soccer player, I don't watch soccer so I don't know.

Pongo · 04-12-2008, 09:12 AM

Random Dirk is great post

ShaggyDirk · 04-12-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by nashtymavsfan13

He's not doing it to show off his name or number or anything, it's just a way of celebrating, sort of like a fist pump or something. Just a way of releasing emotion, not cocky or anything at all.

I believe that is what I said.