Fan’s Perspective

April 10th, 2008 Posted in Avery Johnson, Fan Perspective

It looks like at this point in the season everybody is just waiting for the playoffs to start.  The Mavs pretty much have the 7th seed locked up and will most likely face San Antonio or Los Angeles in the first round.  In fact, a win tonight and a Golden State loss, they’re playing Denver, will clinch a playoff spot for the Mavs.

Here are a couple more comments made on the site recently pointing out some of Avery’s mistakes the last 3 years.  The first one is from PininFarina456.

I couldn’t agree with you more. This site serves a purpose until either Avery gets replaced or Avery wins a championship. The faults listed by you don’t even do justice, he has had many mistakes that a good coach wouldn’t do. He made many mistakes in his first playoff series against Houston, and it became a 7 game series, causing the Mavs to have less energy against PHX, whom they could have beat. Don’t even get me started on the back to back monumental collapses which were simply from bad coaching. What kind of a coach changes a line up after 67 wins in a GAME 1 against the lowest seed?? Anyhow, I’ll stop there, but the list goes on and on.

And then there was a follow up by WyldMavsFan.

I agree with Pinin, the website just started not that long ago, but Avery has been terrible since the Rockets series. He lost the 1st 2 games b/c he changed his lineup and finally went back to the regular lineup in game 3 and we won 4 of the next 5.

Against the spurs in the playoffs, he didn’t do anything special, Dirk was just the man in that series.

GS needs no further explanation and the Heat series was a huge coaching collapse.

I have said this before and this is a huge reason Avery is awful. His record in game 1 on the playoffs is 2-5. The team that wins game 1, goes on to win about 75% of the series, so that record is a joke. 5 of those games were at home, we beat Memphis (we swept them, and no coach could have lost us that series) and we beat the heat. We lost to the rockets, PHX twice, GS, and the spurs. Just awful and it’s b/c Avery over-coaches (GS lineup) and finally makes the decision to do what we have always done in game 2 or 3 but losing game 1 is huge


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  1. 5 Responses to “Fan’s Perspective”

  2. By PininFarina456 on Apr 10, 2008 at 2:38:48 pm

    I see my comments on the front page, dang, I feel special now. So I guess everyone else feels my pain as a frustrated mavs fan.

    The playoffs in the West this season will be so much about coaching and execution. I would even say it’ll be more important than any recent season.

    Every team in the west has a good squad, its really going to come down to execution and more importantly, coaching, which is where the mavs are lacking.

    So question is guys, would you rather play SA or LA in the first round?

    I still think the mavs play well against SA since avery knows that system. Although, it’ll be a nail biter regardless.

  3. By selke99 on Apr 10, 2008 at 6:27:43 pm

    About that comment that Avery didn’t do anything during the Mavs series win against SA. It was Avery who pushed for an up tempo game against the Spurs, to which they couldn’t keep up. Remember Mavs were up 3-1 in that series, then JET got suspended for game 6 for that stupid nut punch. I agree Avery has had mistakes, but you gotta give the guy some credit.

  4. By PininFarina456 on Apr 11, 2008 at 10:57:03 am

    Good point Selke99, I just hope AJ realises that we beat SA last time because we ran that floor with Devin, not by half court ISO.

  5. By georgia on Apr 14, 2008 at 5:11:24 am

    anyone really expect to make the playoffs?? it’s only going to get more embarassing ….

  6. By georgia on Apr 14, 2008 at 5:13:07 am

    I thought they had a “sort of” chance, but last night proved Avery’s ignorance

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