Friday, April 30, 2010
The Big Tease
Portland has Rip City , Houston has Clutch City , I think it’s time that Dallas rightfully gets a new nickname for the repetitious theme they seem to follow. I was going to go with “ Choke City ”, but the Mav’s aren’t quite there just yet. I think a better suitor would have to be “The Big Tease”. I mean think of how Dallas fans have entered the off-season for the past several years...just completely let down after yet another great regular season which routinely follows a disappointing post season. I'm sure the fans realize that they are the first #2 seeded team to be ousted in the first round since the playoff series expanded to 7 games. And I'm sure this didn't remind everyone of their collapse as the first team since the expanded playoffs to be ousted as a #1 seed in the first round a few years ago...oh wait. The Mav’s always have huge potential at the beginning of every year and they are always “supposed” to go deep into the playoffs. And it’s not necessarily the Mav’s fault that they have all this high expectation for success. Other people like so called experts, the fans or even Mark Cuban decides that “this is our year”. I thought so too, especially after the trade deadline when they finally got a big man in Brendan Haywood who can really defend in the paint against the likes of Tim Duncan, or so we thought. And then they got Caron Butler, a guy who can score the ball well and defend guys like Kobe , but I guess the guy who can’t even breathe out of his broken nose proved too much for Mr. Butler. If that’s not enough, how about this for motivation…Dirk can opt out of his contract if he doesn’t want 21.5 mil next year. I wouldn’t blame him if he tested the FA market, and neither can the fans or Cuban. Haywood is now a FA and Kidd will be 38 by next year’s playoffs and Marion will be 32 next month. It seems the only bright spot for the Mav’s future is the semi break out of Rodrigue Beaubois. Dirk will be 32 next year and he will have to decide if he can give it one more go as the franchise player on a more than likely worse team than this year. It seems inevitable that a rebuilding phase will be knocking on Mark Cuban’s door sooner than later. But who knows, because next year will be “The Year” right?
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"the big tease" that fits perfect.
ReplyDeleteGood info Dan. Very unbiased and would have never known you were a hardcore Houston fan if I wouldn't have known you. Straight to the point and unbiased criticism, you were just stating the facts haha. Let me tell you what though, Beaubois put on a hell of a show last night. Looking forward to see him play next year.
ReplyDeleteVery well written. Definently bookmarking and checking back for updates man.
I like "Choke City" more and I think they are totally deserving of it already... I mean, to be the first #1 seed ever to lose to a #8 seed, that is just plain embarrassing. I think it is the chemistry of the team, they throw out all the money and make it to the #2 highest salary in the NBA and still can't get out of the first round. All they have is a bunch of guys that want to touch the ball. Their GM should think better about guys who will play TOGETHER, instead of just play. And now I hope they do get progressively worse.
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