>DESTROYED? Pau/Ibaka, sure......but let's not act like Wade
>wasn't the best player in the Finals

not when it mattered.


>The Mavs were a DEFENSIVE team that won games w/ timely shots.

Dallas was a BALANCED team (8th in Ortg / 8th in Drtg) that won games scoring as well as on D (e.g. they torched LA with a shooting clinic)


>The kingpins of the defense were Tyson/Kidd/Marion. People act
>like Dirk was all by himself just b/c he was the alpha on
>offense.

and because he didn't play with any all-stars. that's just kind of the way that works.


The same Mavs squad w/o Tyson got bounced by the 7th
>seed Spurs in 2010 b/c they had no interior defense. Tyson
>Chandler was the MVP of their squad! Also, the fact the Spurs

And a worst Mavs squad w/o Tyson bounced the 3rd seed Spurs the year before that. Oh and Tyson has never made it out of the 2nd round without Dirk.


>had the #1 seed & won 60 games in the WESTERN CONFERENCE that
>season is laughable b/c the Richard Jefferson/Dejuan Blair era
>Spurs were wack. Manu broke his hand & the #1 seed Spurs got
>bounced, OKC was just learning how to crawl, PDX had nobody
>besides LMA (who was referred to as SOFTridge at the time),
>the Lakers were on a downward spiral & the Heat still hadn't
>figured it out. The stars were perfectly aligned for the Mavs
>in 2011.

OKC learned to crawl vs LA in 2010 & were dangerous in 2011, Lakers were defending champs however you want to slice it, and Miami had it figured out by the ECF vs Chicago. if it was as easy to beat all those teams as you're saying then somebody else would have, but they didn't. Dirk did.


KG in 2004 had old ass Spree/Cassell & dominated BOTH
>SIDES of the floor but nobody talks about it b/c he run into 4
>HOFers in the WCF.

2011 JET was the same age as 2004 Spree & "Kingpin" Kidd was older than Cassell. And KG ran into 2 HOFers w/ 2 over the hill former stars and lost; Dirk faced 3 HOFers in their PRIME and WON.


>If Dirk pull off the same trick when the Lakers were at their
>peak, the Heat at their peak, LMA w/ a legit wingman or OKC
>after it had learned how to walk then I would have been
>impressed.

nobody cares what you think.


>Iverson's run in 2001 & Bron's run 2007 were more impressive
>to me than Dirk's 2011 run....Bron/Iverson simply run into a
>buzzsaw in the Finals.

LOL - 2001 sixers were a DEFENSIVE team anchored by DPOY Deke but you want to act like Iverson was all by himself just b/c he was the alpha on offense (ironic, huh?)

and who did AI actually beat on that 2001 run? Old-ass Reggie, bum-ass Big Dog, and Wince Carter.

and that's more impressive to you than Dirk's 2011 run? FOH