Those are the issues as Dirk Nowitzki approaches an offseason full of contractual choices to make, an offseason that started with he with Mavs owner Mark Cuban “and a bunch of guys (spending) the weekend together and (spending) a lot of time talking about it,’’ Cuban reports. “So I don’t think Dirk is going anywhere. … I think Dirk is committed as I am to bring a championship to the Mavericks.’’
It is with no patience that I’m not ready to celebrate how he will “kill people’’ next year.
It is with no glee that I disagree when Mark Cuban says, “He showed all the ‘FREE RODDY B!’people who have been wanting to see him.’’
What we do here and at DallasBasketball.com that IS ‘the FREE RODDY B! people.’ And in Thursday’s season-ending loss at San Antonio, rookie Rodrigue Beaubois did not “show’’ us anything … that we did not already know.
"No question,’’ said Mavs’ spokesperson Jason Terry after Dallas’ stayin’-alive 103-81 crushing of San Antonio in Tuesday’s Game 5. “We're coming back. We have to. It's our mission. Our job is to go down there and get this win and come on back."
The Mavs are now down 3-2, they go “down there’’ to San Antonio for a Game 6 (and a 7 p.m. tip) … but before they do, we invite you to join DallasBlog and DallasBasketball.com as we jog to catch the fellas before they hop a plane to San Antonio (again). Time for Quoteboard!
I’m sure Pop will have better days. After all, he can’t make a decision regarding something as innocuous as which gum to chew (“Pop picked Dubble-Bubble! He’s a genius!) without earning national basketball praise. So he must be very, very clever.
But that Hack-a-Damp (“Cramp-a-Damp’’? “E-rick-a-Brick’’?) that mucked up Sunday’s 100-94 Mavs win in Game 1? It was a desperate and disastrous move that dared to challenge one of the foundation pieces of what makes the Mavs what they’ve been for a decade.
And the idea that anybody is going to outcoach anybody else? That seems desperate, too.
DallasBasketball.com and Mike Fisher takes you onto the AAC floor and into the Mavs locker room with this DB.TV exclusive: Fish and Bob Ortegel after Dallas’ win Wednesday over the Spurs, plus Marion, Kidd and Dirk – and in Nowitzki’s own words: “Now it’s on!’’