Comments on: Caron Butler is tired of being on entertaining teams, he'll take dull and a ring

By: Eagleye

Eagleye — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:03:53 +0000

Justincredible,
Don’t blame the playoff loss on the coaching. The mavs were, as they have been for years, a one star team. San Antonio had three. You gush over his playoff production, but his playoff PER in Dallas last playoffs was a 17.8. According to Hollinger’s PER system, that is a player that is a “third banana”.
The year Detroit won the title with several allstar level players instead of a couple of superstars, they had 3 guys over 18 and four over 17.
Dallas had one over 18 in last years playoffs. Building a team with the kind of talent it takes to win the playoffs in the NBA is the problem. Not the coach. And, unless Butler starts producing higher PER numbers than he has ever done in his career, the Mavs should count on him to be nothing more than a third banana type player. That means their front office needs to add at least two MORE “allstar” level players. And they didn’t add anyone with those kind of PERs this offseason.
Maybe they need a new GM that knows how to build teams for the playoffs?

By: Justin Credible

Justin Credible — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:51:10 +0000

His drive for success was apparent in the playoffs where he was the only player that stepped it up on offense and managed to combine with Dirk for almost half of the Dallas Mavericks’ points each game. It’s a shame that the rotations put in place against SAS included benching our 2nd best scorer and our best defender so that the three guard lineup could get torched for an entire 2nd half.
I still thoroughly believe that if the rotations had been different we would’ve made a deep run.
@ Drew: One of the huge things that makes the Lakers so successful is not only their athleticism (remember, Fisher is their starting point), rather their size. If having 5 players at or around 7 foot doesn’t help match with size (along with a 6’7″ 2 guard)then I don’t know what will.

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:33:22 +0000

Dallas should be better this season – maybe even a #2 seed but it’s hard to imagine them competing with the Lakers in a seven-game series. They are a bit more athletic now, which should help them though.

By: johnmaine

johnmaine — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:29:50 +0000

J.R. Moehringer, author of the LeBron James GQ piece, was interviewed & has some FASCINATING things to say. http://bit.ly/dhV8Pi