Dallas Mavericks at Charlotte 11/20

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The 5-4 Dallas Mavericks come to town to face the 2-7 Bobcats on Monday night. The Bobcats got their only 2 wins of the season against 2 of the league powerhouses ( Cavs & Spurs ). Lets see if we can step it up and compete with the defending Western conference champs.

The Mavs lineup will look like this
PG - Devin Harris
SG - Jason Terry
SF - Josh Howard
PF - Dirk
C - Desagno Diop

I won\'t even begin to guess the lineup that the Bobcats are going to use, that seems to change from day to day.

To make these game threads a litle more interesting, I\'ll start giving my prediction for game high scorer with points. You feel free to do the same:)

I\'m predicting Dirk is the high scorer with 37 points. He\'s to big for our perimeter players, and he doesn\'t spend enough time in the low post for Emeka to shut him down.

[dvdbumpus]

Dirk scores 31.

Bobcats win 117 - 116 in OT.

[heelfan]

38 by Dirk:(

I don\'t think that we have the firepower to compete with these guys... Maybe the Bobcats can prove me wrong though.

[heelfan]

Fast start by the Bobcats. They\'re up 10-4 and look like they came to play tonight.

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OH SHIT!!! Emeka just twisted his ankle again.

[heelfan]

It wasn\'t serious, Mek is back on the court.

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6 first half blocks for Emeka:woohoo: Hes looking like a yung Alonzo Mourning out there.

[dvdbumpus]

Well a coming out party for Wallace, and Okafor continued to beast (8 blocks!! - more than the entire Dallas team)

We shot a better fg %, but got crushed on 3 pointers, rebounds, and Dallas had less TO.

Very frustrating. Now if only Morrison could have shot better this game...

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2-8.... At this rate we\'re on a pace to win 16 games this season.:(

On a positive note it was nice to see Gerald Wallace start to look like his old self, and Emeka was fierce, 20pts 13 boards 8 blocks ( or something like that ).

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I\'d like to say \"why\", after shooting 6 point percent better than them. But I know the answer, just because being outrebounded by them. 16-7 offensive rebounds.

We shot better than every single team but Orlando, but we won just two of them. We may well look for the guilty from now on. And I believe the guilty is Adam Morrison. His shooting percentage is horrible and what is worse is he rarely goes to the line. It\'s not a wrong to select him as 3rd, but he just needs more and more time to accustomed to NBA. And till that time, we\'ll go on losing such games.

God damn it.

[psycho]

Its going to take Adam some time to get comfortable in the NBA and gain the respect of the refs, In each of his games that I\'ve watched I saw fouls on him that didn\'t get called. As poorly as hes shooting, hes still been more productive than any of the other rookies in this years class.

[dvdbumpus]

As much as it hurts me to say this, I think it\'s time to reconsider Morrison as the 6th man once again instead of rallying him for a starting position. May should be in the lineup, he\'s one of our best Offensive Rebounders.

To compensate for our lack of rebounding, how does this lineup sound?

PG - Raymond/Knight
SG - Wallace/Morrison/Knight/
SF - May/Wallace/Robinson
PF - Okafor/May
C - Voshkul/Okafor/Brezec


At least with those starters we\'d have less of a chance being outrebounded so horribly..we have our best rebounders at each position, and each of them can still score.

[djack]

dvdbumpus wrote:

As much as it hurts me to say this, I think it\'s time to reconsider Morrison as the 6th man once again instead of rallying him for a starting position. May should be in the lineup, he\'s one of our best Offensive Rebounders.

To compensate for our lack of rebounding, how does this lineup sound?

PG - Raymond/Knight
SG - Wallace/Morrison/Knight/
SF - May/Wallace/Robinson
PF - Okafor/May
C - Voshkul/Okafor/Brezec


At least with those starters we\'d have less of a chance being outrebounded so horribly..we have our best rebounders at each position, and each of them can still score. I like that rotation, but in reality as long as Bernie is coach and Brevin is on the team, hes going to get 30+ minutes as the starting PG.
I think the ideal situation would be to force feed Raymond minutes at the point so that this could truly become HIS team, and force feed Adam minutes so that he can become the primary scoring option for this team sooner rather than later.

[dvdbumpus]

I like that rotation, but in reality as long as Bernie is coach and Brevin is on the team, hes going to get 30+ minutes as the starting PG.
I think the ideal situation would be to force feed Raymond minutes at the point so that this could truly become HIS team, and force feed Adam minutes so that he can become the primary scoring option for this team sooner rather than later.

Yes, But rebounding (or lack of it) is what\'s holding us back. Bernie has to either get us rebounding or his job is bye bye.

[tamburello]

dvdbumpus wrote:

Yes, But rebounding (or lack of it) is what\'s holding us back. Bernie has to either get us rebounding or his job is bye bye.

I totally agree. Rebounding(espeically defensive) is our main problem. To lighten it, we should use a frontcourt with Wallace, May and Okafor mainly.