I Have Cooled Down
Earlier this week, a friend of mine asked me if I had "recovered (from the Warriors series". I told him, and others, that I was 'washing my hands of them'. I remember telling The J midway through Game 6 that 'if they lose tonight, I'm finished with them'.
I was just telling The J that it doesn't seem like the Mavs have a sense of history. I mean, collapsing last year when you're 6 1/2 minutes from a 3-0 Finals lead is one thing. Then they proceed to burn through the following regular season to compile the 6th best regular season in NBA history. They won 67 freakin' games, for pete's sake!! They actually looked, and had to have most of the league thinking that they were going to have to be killed, and killed again to be forced from the playoffs.
Not only do they become the 3rd 1seed to go out in the 1st round, but the bend over to a team that won 25 fewer regular season games...and didn't even qualify for the playoffs until the last freakin' day! And THAT is something they contributed to by playing full strength against a Clippers team with whom they would have matched up better against in the 1st round. And as if that wasn't a questionable coaching move, you adjust your starting lineup in Game 1 to better match up to the freakin' 8th seed??!? As good as Avery has proven himself so far as a coach, those turned out to be really crappy moves.
To clarify, I won't just start following another team. A writer from the Detroit paper said a Mavs fan will want "to go nowhere near a sports bar for the next 6 weeks" because of who's likely to be left in the WC playoffs: their top 2 rivals in the Spurs and Rockets, the Steve Nash Suns and Don Nelson's Warriors. I guess that means I successfully made the transition from Mavs fan to NBA fan a long time ago. No, I just don't plan on buying the NBA Package next season so we can watch all their games (regardless of the fact that The J's impending hiatus from working might probably preclude us from doing so anyway).
With regard to the start of the Jazz/Spurs WCF Game 1 tomorrow, I remember a writer saying he wishes they'd have had cameras (papparazzi?) outside Tim Duncan's house the night the Warriors eliminated the Mavericks since he was probably celebrating.
Tell me there's not a grain of truth to that.
I was just telling The J that it doesn't seem like the Mavs have a sense of history. I mean, collapsing last year when you're 6 1/2 minutes from a 3-0 Finals lead is one thing. Then they proceed to burn through the following regular season to compile the 6th best regular season in NBA history. They won 67 freakin' games, for pete's sake!! They actually looked, and had to have most of the league thinking that they were going to have to be killed, and killed again to be forced from the playoffs.
Not only do they become the 3rd 1seed to go out in the 1st round, but the bend over to a team that won 25 fewer regular season games...and didn't even qualify for the playoffs until the last freakin' day! And THAT is something they contributed to by playing full strength against a Clippers team with whom they would have matched up better against in the 1st round. And as if that wasn't a questionable coaching move, you adjust your starting lineup in Game 1 to better match up to the freakin' 8th seed??!? As good as Avery has proven himself so far as a coach, those turned out to be really crappy moves.
To clarify, I won't just start following another team. A writer from the Detroit paper said a Mavs fan will want "to go nowhere near a sports bar for the next 6 weeks" because of who's likely to be left in the WC playoffs: their top 2 rivals in the Spurs and Rockets, the Steve Nash Suns and Don Nelson's Warriors. I guess that means I successfully made the transition from Mavs fan to NBA fan a long time ago. No, I just don't plan on buying the NBA Package next season so we can watch all their games (regardless of the fact that The J's impending hiatus from working might probably preclude us from doing so anyway).
With regard to the start of the Jazz/Spurs WCF Game 1 tomorrow, I remember a writer saying he wishes they'd have had cameras (papparazzi?) outside Tim Duncan's house the night the Warriors eliminated the Mavericks since he was probably celebrating.
Tell me there's not a grain of truth to that.
posted by Chris at 6:21 PM
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