And so it begins…
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson | 7 Comments »Apparently Avery and Mark Cuban had a disagreement after last night's game. Is this the beginning of a rift between the two? I can't imagine that Mark is happy that the extra $17 million he's paying out this ...
Three Years Ago Today
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson | 10 Comments »Three years ago today Don Nelson stepped down as the Mavericks head coach and Avery Johnson was named his replacement. At the time this was a great move. Don Nelson had quit on this team and Avery had ...
More Lakers Reaction
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson | 10 Comments »Here's a couple of quotes from Avery after last night's game. “We are disappointed because we don’t like coming in second. But again, every game is a playoff game and they played it early on more like they were playing for ...
Absolutely Inexcusable
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson, Game Recap | 13 Comments »This post is kinda going to be a stream of random thoughts that may not be in order. Just go with it for now and I'll be back in the morning after some quotes from Avery and the players come ...
Avery’s defensive plan for Kobe
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson | 12 Comments »Here's Avery's defensive plan for Kobe tonight. "Hopefully he misses shots like he did against Houston. I didn't see Houston with any trick defenses, and I didn't really see them double-teaming him a lot. He just missed ...
He said what?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in Mavs Talk | 1 Comment »Avery said something that didn't make a whole lot of sense yesterday. "It's disappointing that we were involved in it last year, but I don't think homecourt advantage is going to mean as much as it did in years past. ...
Weekend Update
Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in The Association | 1 Comment »The Mavs did what they had to do and finished this stretch of games against weak East teams 5-0. They beat the Heat yesterday 98-73 in a game where the Heat looked like they'd rather be doing anything else but ...
Just for fun
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson | No Comments »Here's a nice little clip of Jason Kidd blocking an Avery Johnson lay-up attempt, back in Kidd's first swim through Dallas.
Four in a row
Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson, Game Recap | No Comments »It's so nice seeing this team doing what they're supposed to do against these weak Eastern Conference teams. They've now won four in a row against these teams by an average of 23 points. Now only the ...
The Pacers are here, does anyone care?
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Mavs Talk | 3 Comments »The tour of weak Eastern Conference teams coming to town continues tonight as the Pacers visit the AAC. Should be another easy win for the Mavericks as the Pacers are 25-39 on the year and 4-6 in their last ...
Mavs win and Avery does something right
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson, Game Recap | 1 Comment »The Mavericks took care of the Bobcats last night in dominating fashion, as they should. Dirk continues to be a monster ending up with 26 points and 9 boards. But more importantly is another apperence by the Real Josh Howard. ...
What Charles Barkley thinks about Avery
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson | 9 Comments »Charles Barkley was at the SMU Athletic Forum today and Tim McMahon has a few quotes from him at the Morning News Mavs blog. In particular, Charles says: "I tell you, all coaches make mistakes, but those two are ...
A Look at the West
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in The Association | 12 Comments »With the Bobcats and their 24-39 record, which is actually only two games out of a playoff spot in the East, coming to town tomorrow night there's not really too much to do to prepare for the game. Jason ...
Taking Care of Business
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Game Recap | 4 Comments »Another weak East team, another easy win for the Mavericks, as it should be. No Mav played more than 32 minutes in the win, with Dirk only need 22 minutes to rack up 18 points and 8 boards. Stackhouse got ...
One Down
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Mavs Talk | 1 Comment »Good weekend for the Mavericks with their plastering of the Nets, Dirk breaking Rolando Blackman's scoring record, a Spurs loss and a Nuggets loss. The Mavs are now sitting 1/2 a game ahead of the Warriors for the 8th ...
