Comments on: Mavs-Hornets Game 3

By: camaro32

camaro32 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:46:47 +0000

ndnballer- Avery made some great adjustments tonight, but unfortunately, the Mavs are suffering because Avery takes two full games to figure out what a quality coach would realize in 1/2 quarter of play. That’s pretty annoying. We shouldn’t be down 2-1 but Avery is an idiot and some other good coach probably felt sorry for him and called him before game 3 to explain (in about 30 seconds) what Avery needs to change.

Regardless, hopefully this is the start of something great and we swing some momentum and win this series. Go Mavs…and Go Cowboys in the draft tomorrow!

By: FreeDirk

FreeDirk — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:01:24 +0000

Avery’s defensive adjustments were spot-on. Pargo had the hot hand tonight, which was one of the great results of the defensive strategy.

Avery figured out how to minimize Paul’s, West’s, and Chandler’s effectiveness tonight, and Terry, Kidd, Bass, Damp, and – yes – Dirk executed the plan beautifully.

Pargo had the open looks. That seems like it was the plan. Someone’s going to get open looks, and coach and players worked together brilliantly tonight to make sure it wasn’t one of the three guys that really gets that N.O. team going.

I’ve felt that our defensive woes were mostly attributable to Avery’s strategy, but the offensive woes were on the players’ shoulders (except Dirk, of course).

Tonight, everybody who got significant PT was active, aggressive, and took care of the ball on offense. We forced the ball into the paint (FINALLY!), which is the way to exploit N.O.’s greatest weakness: their lack of depth.

Getting the ball into the paint forces them to foul, which gets their hands tied later in the game. They can’t be as aggressive, because they really only have 7 players to work with. That was one of the keys to tonight’s victory.

By: selke99

selke99 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:29:12 +0000

Pargo pretty much lit up anyone who was guarding him. Kidd played great tonight. That anle of Dirks must be feeling fine! He played the whole 2nd half.

By: ndnballer

ndnballer — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:21:00 +0000

No matter how much we hate avery, we have to give him props. He really made some great adjustments on the defensive side. And as for dirk, hes been dominating this whole series, but tonight he was AMAZING. He filled up pretty much every category.

By: FreeDirk

FreeDirk — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:13:33 +0000

Wow. Kinda lonely here on Fireavery.com tonight, ain’t it?

By: FreeDirk

FreeDirk — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:58:32 +0000

Howard’s shot was still absent, but HE showed up tonight. His hustle was great, his contribution to the team defense was great, and he seemed to have some fire again. He logged alot of minutes because he played well defensively and is a young guy who can give you lots of minutes.

To the Avery-haters and Avery-lovers alike (I’ve been on the fence):

More of what I saw tonight will pull me over to the Avery-lover side. No one can argue that his defensive adjustments tonight weren’t great, and made the momentum difference in the game. Dirk was a monster, as usual, but especially so tonight. Terry’s passion was refreshing, as was his shooting. But most importantly, the switch to Terry guarding Paul was the big difference-maker tonight.

Hate Avery or love him, you cannot argue that his defensive game plan didn’t work exceptionally well tonight. We’ll see what happens in Game 4.

Oh, and where is that Richard guy?? The one who said Dirk can’t dominate games…

HEY DUDE, HOW ABOUT 32 PTS, 19 REB, 6 AST, AND 2 BLOCKS? If that’s not dominating, please tell me what is.

By: T

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:52:10 +0000

Josh Howard = Roy Tarpley with less size and talent

By: camaro32

camaro32 — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:07:28 +0000

I hope that nobody is letting Pargo’s play fool them. Kidd is just old and can’t keep up on D. CP3 lit Kidd up and now Pargo is. I think Byron Scott is pretty smart to recognize that ANYBODY Kidd is guarding gives the Hornets a favored mismatch.

By: mrtwister

mrtwister — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:02:12 +0000

It seems Avery is doing a better job keeping his subs tight. No random minutes here and there for deep bench players but keeping his main guys on the court as much as possible. Are they playing Paul straight up tonight?

By: drew

drew — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:32:52 +0000

MFFL,

I think Greg who runs this site even thinks those who want to go to the game to only boo and heckle Avery or any other player looks down upon such negativity. Grow up already or should we show up with signs at your work and chant to have you fired?