37. "RE: Thats the difference bet championship team vs lotto team in dreadful..." In response to In response to 36
>and Dirk missed 30 games last season coming off knee surgery > so not sure why you keep talking about '13 Mavs missing the >playoffs like it means anything. They were right there w/ the injury riddled Lakers & the mediocre Rockets when Dirk came back & Mayo was playing out of his mind early in the season.
>you mean the series where Dirk put up 26/8 shooting 55% while >JET crashed & burned, Kidd shot 30% and Marion was >irrelevant? Dirk quit on his own floor in Gm 5 but Caron carried them to victory to avoid the gentle man sweep.
>but at least you finally admit Dirk played well so I guess >that's something. Playing well =! carrying a team
>Tyson w/o Dirk--> only been out of 1st round twice & has never >made it past the 2nd round Oh so we are now going to put Dirk on the same pedestal as Tyson...how the mighty have fallen.
>Amare injured his back before game 2 of that series dummy. -In 2011: They finished as ONLY the 6th seed w/ a HEALTHY Amare in the Leastern conference & got swept by the AARP status Celtics. -In 2012: They WON a series WITHOUT Amare in 2012 & played the eventually champs (Heatles) as well as OKC in the 2nd rd...the difference b/w 2011 & 2012 was that they had Tyson.