I’ve been thinking about posting something for a couple of days and reading Slikkster’s comments motivated me to finally take the time. Slikkster, by the way, is absolutely right.

How can you dog your coach for wearing his NBA championship ring? The Hawks’ coach was wearing the ring he won with the Pistons! Avery only spent most of his NBA career with the Spurs, his jersey is retired in San Antonio and oh, by the way, he hit the game winning jumper in Game 5 against the Knicks that sealed the Spurs’ first Championship in 1999!! Why do you think Nellie wanted to mentor him and Cuban gave him the job? Because Avery is a proven Champion. I’m sure you’ll be happy to know that your comments about Avery’s ring were mentioned in Buck Harvey’s column in the San Antonio Express News today. Check it out at http://www.mysanantonio.com. Yes, I’m a Spurs fan. You Mavs fans just can’t stand the fact that his success was in San Antonio. You are so ignorant and immature that somehow you see Avery as a traitor for wearing his Spurs’ Championship ring. You should be proud to have a coach with that kind of experience to draw on when coaching your team.

I also thought your comments about Avery saying in the locker room that the Mavs need to get some points in the paint, and then mentioning that the first play was a 16ft jumper by Dirk were hilarious!! Who do you think CHOSE to take that shot? It was Dirk, NOT AVERY, who made that decision. Avery doesn’t go out and play the game for the team. The players have to execute.

Your complaints about the lineups are naive too. You can’t just run a player into the ground during a game. You have to manage their minutes so that if you have a chance to win a game in crunch time your key players still have somewhat fresh legs. It’s your bench’s responsibility to keep the team in the game, or even go on a run sometimes. You don’t lose games in the playoffs by as much as the Mavs have because Avery kept Dirk out, or had too many bench players in at one time. You lose by 15-20+ points because you only have 1-2 players producing during the game, rather than 4 or more players who’ve shown up to play.

I’m curious, do you ever pay attention to any other teams in the NBA who’ve had success? Dude, your trouble is that you can’t remain objective about your team in spite of being a fan. Calm down. If the players don’t have enough respect for your coach, it’s not neccesarily coach’s fault. Especially in Dallas. The way Cuban runs that team is a joke and he breeds opposition in the Mavs locker room. Cuban thinks he knows better than his coach and that’s his problem. Cuban is just a fan himself and needs to keep his hands out of the pot. The Mavs’ morale is low, and a coach can say all he wants to boost his team, but if the players don’t believe it, you have no hope.

Also, for all you Kidd haters out there: Avery didn’t want that trade. Dirk BEGGED for it. So why isn’t Dirk on the chopping block for wanting something that would elevate his game, but not work out for the good of team? Because of the trade, the Mavs now have matchup problems, and that is why you can’t beat anybody who’s good, let alone when it counts.

Sun, Jan 27 Denver 30-13 near last game harris played so say they went 5-4 during harris absence, but they beat every team in the playoffs during that harris period expect boston…during kidds time mavs lost to every team they beat that is now in the playoffs except suns/Hornets….Now ask the question…Were the mavs a better team prior to the trade?…I would have to say yes…

Oh dont forget, NJ was not going to make the playoffs with kidd anyway…