Dallas Mavs Roster Oct. 30 2008

The Dallas Mavericks roster this year seems to be set.  No major changes this year.  It’s talented, it could compete – but the title is still far from reach.  Talent is not the main obstacle, in the drags of the nba season it is the tendency to lose and cool, extinguish the fire to hold that trophy high that will be this team’s greatest enemy.  The fire they had in the 2006 nba playoffs, but let the fire morph into fear and hesitancy as the 2007 season turned into the 2007 playoffs.

This year they come to the floor armed at point guard with:

Jason Kidd, Josea Berea with Jason Terry filling in at this position as well.

Old and fragile, but capable of suppling the play necessary if Kidd comes through.  It is a big if and will only succeed wildly if Kidd is inspired by his greed for a new LARGE Contract.

At shooting guard they come armed with:

Jason Terry, Jerry Stackhouse, Antione Wright and Gerald Green.

Again fragile.  Jason Terry is streaky by nature – which is common among shooters.  He is small for this position and despite his preseason talk in the past two years – he hasn’t come to play and play hard in the postseason.  Jerry Stackhouse will play inspired for 10 games, get injured and then take a while to get back to inspired play, then go through the whole cycle again.  The wild cards here are Antione Wright and Gerald Green, let’s hope they bring something consistently good to the table.

At small foward the Mavs come smoking with:

Josh Howard, Devon George and Shawn Williams.

If the Mavericks season turns out how they want it to, these boy will be running and dunking.  Easy baskets, easy baskets, easy baskets.  These guys have to play like kids, happy and energetic.  I think if Josh Howard isn’t too sparse between the ears it will show this year.  He could come out swinging and completely turn his image back around.  Devon George needs to get back to being a role player – a good role player.  Giving the defense, the hustle and the occassional 3 that championship teams need.  Go figure Shawne Williams, I don’t know much about him.

The overwhelming strength:  Power Foward

Dirk Nowitzki, Brandon Bass and Jason Singleton.

Nowitzki and Bass can bring it.  They’ll need to.  This team doesn’t run without Dirk and losses its margin for error without Bass.

Center

Eric Dampier and Desagana Diop.

Not a strength but not bad, I imagine Bass will be spending a lot of time here.\

Prediction:  Same old, same old.  They’ll be fun to watch, fun to track, but ultimalely it won’t amount to much as the harsh reality of getting bogged down in referee calls, opponent superstar play and lack of self will to seperate them from the pack in the playoffs will eventually paint the Dallas Mavericks in the 2008-2009 season – not the best.  Now for the fun part go PROVE me wrong.

The Dallas Mavericks Roster – both trick and treat.  Happy Seasons.

I love this guy.  He’s my favorite person in the world.

And I found this recently too.  It was hard for me to believe it at first, but if you see it – it makes sense.  If you click on more info you will receive a play by play of naughty stern.  The guy throws the fourth card against the bubble denting the corner of the card.  Stern looks in and grabs a card with a card on top of it.  Guess which card comes out – that’s right the dented one.  The dented corner ends up in David Stern’s left hand.  This guy is filthy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mN3OGRGybA