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[Dubs-42]

Longtime Mavs fan. One of my all time favorite players in the franchises history is Marquis Daniels. I scooped up some rare footage of his Mavs days and put together a small highlight video. The site wouldn't let me post my own thread so I put it here for you guys to see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOKQb6Kkt4

[Skywalker]

Great article about the Mavs by Zach Lowe: http://grantland.com/features/the-re...las-mavericks/

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Dubs-42

Longtime Mavs fan. One of my all time favorite players in the franchises history is Marquis Daniels. I scooped up some rare footage of his Mavs days and put together a small highlight video. The site wouldn't let me post my own thread so I put it here for you guys to see!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oOKQb6Kkt4

Blast from the past - thanks for sharing.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Skywalker

Great article about the Mavs by Zach Lowe: http://grantland.com/features/the-re...las-mavericks/

Always loved Zach Lowe, miss The Two Man Game... Great to see him writing about the Mavs again!

In short: Carlisle and Dirk are BAMFs, Durant to Dallas in 2016.

[TNT]

I was just looking for an article from google but didn't find it. Mybe you guys know where it is. It talked about a guy who bet his salary start of the season on the mavs becoming a champions in the 2010-2011 season and won big.

[Underdog]

Silver: Cuban is 'good' for NBA

[Skywalker]

Not sure where to put this (tried to find a specific Caron Butler thread but couldnt) so im gonna leave it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoQ1TnqPIX4

Always liked and respected the guy but had never heard about this before, great story. Still feel bad for his injury in the championship season and really wish he couldve stayed in Dallas for more time, but oh well.

[Skywalker]

Jason Gallagher: It’s a rare thing for me to perk up when a coach sends in the backup squad, but I’ve become enchanted by the Mavs bench and I don’t care who knows it. Over the last 12 games, Dallas has gone 10-2, as it has continued its ascent up the Western Conference mountain of hell. It goes without saying that Dirk, Carlisle, and Mississippi Missile-Ball have had a lot to do with it, but let’s not leave out the little people who are doing not-so-little things: Vince Carter, Brandan Wright, and Devin Harris. Take one of those guys out of the equation and the other two suffer. But as a unit, this group is a flowing river of Carlisle genius. The Harris-Wright pick-and-roll combo is the belle of the bench. It always seems to lead to some sort of open shot, layup, or alley between the two. In other cases, it creates all the space for Vince Carter — 17 last night — to drop bombs on the defense when they cheat on the other two. Since Dallas has gone on its 10-2 tear, the bench is fourth in the league in points, third in rebounds, first in assists, and first in plus/minus.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nb...v-and-cav-not/

[dirt_dobber]

great find skywalker + rep
(I couldn't find my "Ron Burgendy excited pants" pic so this one will have to suffice)

[DevinHarriswillstart]

^Mississippi Missile-Ball. Great nickname for Monta. What a difference Carlisle can make for players who need another shot to prove themselves.

[j0Shi]

At the start of the season bench was atrocious, Wright and DH were missing and VC looked even older than he is. The bench has always been key for us and it's nice they found a way to step up.

[dude1394]

FRISCO - Rookie point guard Shane Larkin, second-year forward Jae Crowder and second-year center Bernard James are coming to Frisco for a one-game assignment with the Texas Legends ... and DallasBasketball.com will be there with the telecast on Channel 47 and the reasoning why here:

[yahyes]

Wow. Sarge scored 38 points with 18 rebounds!?

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by yahyes

Wow. Sarge scored 38 points with 18 rebounds!?

James 38pts 18reb 4blk 2stl
Crowder 23pts, 18reb, 10ast

Maybe they'll come back more confident after trashing the little league.

[Cerberus]

Full game replay available on D-League's YouTube Channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHticCliFfc

[Underdog]

Holy crap, James with a DoJo-like D-League game!

[Jack.Kerr]

Originally Posted by Cerberus

Full game replay available on D-League's YouTube Channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHticCliFfc

Is that Youtube channel really named nbadleague?

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by Jack.Kerr

Is that Youtube channel really named nbadleague?

Yeah it's the official one too. Live games are available as well I think.

[Cerberus]

Crowder with another Triple Double (against same opponent) 22 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists, 5 steals and 3 blocks. Also 7 Turnovers.

[sefant77]

God, the D-League blows...

[dirt_dobber]

Marion and Ellis mention.....

Today in a Grantland article titled....
"Breaking down the most watchable players in the league"

BY ZACH LOWE
http://grantland.com/features/the-marc-gasol-all-stars/

Shawn Marion: You can learn a lot about basketball watching the long-armed Marion, even in his twilight. Teams don’t guard him on the perimeter, even though he’s hoisting those T-Rex 3-pointers again. That cramps Dallas’s spacing, but Marion has found ways to compensate — cutting backdoor from the corner when his defender ignores him, flashing into the middle of the paint for goofy floaters, and just moving around the court in smart ways.

He’s lost a step on defense, but he still has that massive wingspan, and the Mavs use him to guard four positions. He’ll go chest-to-chest with quicker wings on the perimeter, often swatting annoyingly at the ball like a cat going after yarn. He plays angles brilliantly.

He is one of the league’s most interesting and versatile players, and his ability to play power forward has freed Rick Carlisle to juggle Nowitzki’s rest periods in optimal ways.3 We’re going to miss Marion when he’s gone. And by the way: He’s built a fascinating Hall of Fame case.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AND~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~

The Majestic Monta Finger Roll
Hypothesis: Monta Ellis has the best finger roll in the league today:

There is something majestic about the way he holds the ball so far from his body, even in traffic, and keeps his arm extended while he’s airborne. He also picks up his dribble on the move with just one hand, never even using his left hand to balance the ball for a split second. Ellis has always been a stylish player, but this is his coup de grâce.

[mavErika]

Originally Posted by dirt_dobber

BY ZACH LOWE
http://grantland.com/features/the-marc-gasol-all-stars/

Shawn Marion: You can learn a lot about basketball watching the long-armed Marion[...]

I felt this fits in here nicely:

The Matrix Training System

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by mavErika

I felt this fits in here nicely:

The Matrix Training System

Greatness!

[j0Shi]

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...ference-system

Shouldn't the playoffs be as competitive as possible? The NBA is operating as though this isn’t the plan.

The Dallas Mavericks are currently out of the playoffs with a 43-30 record. The Atlanta Hawks are on track to make the playoffs with a 31-40 record. The offensively thrilling Mavs are second in attendance. The mediocre Hawks are 28th. This can’t really be what the league intended, can it?

2nd in attendance! Good job locals

[DevinHarriswillstart]

Originally Posted by j0Shi

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...ference-system



2nd in attendance! Good job locals

Great little tidbit. Does suck to feel like failures if we don't make the playoffs with such a winning record.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by j0Shi

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...ference-system

I wonder how much the East-West disparity affects free agency these days? I mean, superstars gotta see that the East is the quicker, easier path to the Finals... You've got a two-horse race between Indy and Miami this season, with a bunch of lottery-quality teams lining up to get slaughtered in the first round (remember, their W-L records are even more inflated since they mostly get to play crappy EC teams.)

In the West, you're going to have teams MISS the playoffs who could likely give the Pacers or Heat a run for their money in the ECF... It's a mess.

[j0Shi]

Originally Posted by Underdog

I wonder how much the East-West disparity affects free agency these days? I mean, superstars gotta see that the East is the quicker, easier path to the Finals... You've got a two-horse race between Indy and Miami this season, with a bunch of lottery-quality teams lining up to get slaughtered in the first round (remember, their W-L records are even more inflated since they mostly get to play crappy EC teams.)

In the West, you're going to have teams MISS the playoffs who could likely give the Pacers or Heat a run for their money in the ECF... It's a mess.

Time will tell. In theory, Brooklyn and the Knicks should be able to be competitive. Chicago is a major market. And there's Boston with its rich and proud history, so I would assume this year is just a very bad outlier. But I wouldn't rule out a general trend as well. As ESS noted correctly, teams that should get and would need a lottery pick don't receive one in the current system.

The superstar thing it sure intriguing, right now it looks super-easy to form the third best team or so.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by j0Shi

Time will tell. In theory, Brooklyn and the Knicks should be able to be competitive. Chicago is a major market. And there's Boston with its rich and proud history, so I would assume this year is just a very bad outlier. But I wouldn't rule out a general trend as well. As ESS noted correctly, teams that should get and would need a lottery pick don't receive one in the current system.

This paragraph from Strauss's article touches on that:

But this is a particularly bad season in the Eastern Conference, you might say. True, but at least one East team has made the playoffs at or below .500 in seven of the past eight postseasons; no West team can claim that since the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season. The NBA can say it all eventually balances out, that these things are cyclical, but it’s quite possible that Eastern Conference misery will continue indefinitely if unchecked.

[HopeIsAlwaysThere]

What you guys think about Ellington actually?
I do believe he got some defense and a pretty good shooter.
I am not saying he is the type of (DeShawn Stevenson, Greg Buckner, Adrian Griffin or Quinton Ross), but he should be fitting in the Rick's formation, a 2 who can guard and drill threes, Matt Carroll and Anthony Morrow didn't work out mostly because they can't defend, that's why I think last season, the Anthony Morrow/Danthay Jones trade is a bad one, Rick simply won't use that type of player.

[marc9211]

He's definitely better than Jae Crowder.

[Melonhead]

Crowder has stepped up recently which is keeping Ellington on the bench. Hate it cause he seems like a piece that fits this team

[HopeIsAlwaysThere]

For some reason, when we need to make a shot down the stretch, I do think Ellington deserve to have the chance. The heartbreaking loss against Clippers on January, he knocked down two triples in limited action. Those good look threes, he is as good as Jose.

[DirkFTW]

Uhoh... Cuban, hgh, and aids in same sentence...

[marc9211]

Originally Posted by HopeIsAlwaysThere

For some reason, when we need to make a shot down the stretch, I do think Ellington deserve to have the chance. The heartbreaking loss against Clippers on January, he knocked down two triples in limited action. Those good look threes, he is as good as Jose.

He cannot shoot as well as Jose

[Underdog]

Mavs PA man Sean Heath suspended for tweets

[dirt_dobber]

Sean Heath = ultimate homer.... makes Sean Elliot look unbiased.
but I still like him.

[spreedom]

Rick Carlisle: Dirk one of 12 best

[HopeIsAlwaysThere]

Originally Posted by Underdog

Mavs PA man Sean Heath suspended for tweets

I really like him, I don't understand why NBA can suspend him, he can't say things?

[dirt_dobber]

Unsafe at home? Mavericks' inability to 'figure it out' at AAC has Dirk Nowitzki fretting
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dal...i-fretting.ece

by Eddie Sefo - Dallas Morning News

Dirk Nowitzki is the first to admit he has a Debbie-Downer streak in him. A big, fat, wide streak, at that.

Even so, he had to set some sort of buzz-kill speed record when he started talking about the Mavericks’ Game 2 win that evened the first-round series against San Antonio.

It took him just 1 minute, 24 seconds before he started sounding alarm bells.

“I like our intensity right now, but it’s a little dangerous going home,” Nowitzki said. “We’ve been a decent road team all year. But at home, we haven’t figured it out yet.”

He hopes the key word in that analysis is “yet.”

The Mavericks’ road record was darn near as good as their home record in the regular season. They won 26 times at home and 23 times away. That lack of dominance at American Airlines Center is why they were a No. 8 seed and why they are locked in what is setting up as an epic battle with the top-seeded Spurs in the first round.
It’s also why Nowitzki is fretting.

“I’m a little worried going home,” he said. “I’d rather play Game 3 here [in San Antonio], I guess. We’ve got to figure it out at home. We can’t relax. That’s the main thing.”

That said, Nowitzki knows the Mavericks have shown to themselves, the Spurs and everybody else that this series is, indeed, a series. Anybody who thought it would be a walkover knows better now.

The Mavericks were clearly the better team in Game 2. The argument could be made they were better in Game 1, also, except for the first seven minutes and the last seven minutes. Owner Mark Cuban called it “fixing the bookends.”

On Wednesday, the Mavericks were so good in the meat of the game, nothing mattered in the last seven minutes except to determine just how badly the Spurs would be beaten.

The 21-point deficit was exceeded only once in the Spurs’ 20 losses during the regular season, and the last time they had lost that badly in the playoffs was a 22-point setback in the 2010 postseason — to the Mavericks in Game 5 of their first-round series.

While ending a 10-game losing streak against the Spurs in Game 2 was important, Nowitzki said the loss in Game 1 probably did more for the morale than anything.

“We deserved this win,” he said. “Game 1 actually helped a lot more than today. We were down after Game 1. But to be up 10 with seven minutes left, that gave us a lot of confidence.”

Now comes the hard part: surviving in the friendly confines of AAC.

“We lost some big games the last couple months and we just can’t take our foot off the gas,” he said. “We got to keep competing the same way; then I like our chances going home.”

What the Mavericks have done best in this series is keep everybody working at next-level capacity. The players have worked hard. The coaches have worked hard — although to hear Rick Carlisle tell it, San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich has overwhelmed him in the coaching department.

“The coaching matchup is a wipeout,” Carlisle said.

That was his self-deprecating manner showing through. Nobody believes this is anything less than two of the best basketball minds going at it.

That’s what makes the upcoming set of games at AAC so riveting.

“This kind of thing, you’re playing the No. 1 seed, you got to dig as deep as you can,” Carlisle said. “They’re going to come up with some things up their sleeve.”

And so will the Mavericks. The big question is whether they can have as sharp an edge with a friendly home crowd as they did in the hostile environment in San Antonio.

[MFFL]

I didn't see this anywhere and I thought it was interesting

http://www.mavsoutsider.com/2014/03/...k-touchyfeely/