[DAL/PHX] With my hands behind my back...

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I'm sorry, I can't watch this footage of Raja Bell playing "defense" without chuckling.

 

[Kings113]

I want to see Avery after the game if Mavs don't comeback to win. Mavs have a good oppurtunity to get within a 1/2 game of Spurs if they win.

 

[Kings113]

This is getting fun

 

[6th]

Ha ha! Dirk with another T.

 

[Kings113]

Mavs right back in it, Suns blew it

 

[Kings113]

Ah, good old AD...

 

[Kings113]

100-94.. No real suprise here

 

[mavsman]

Not worried at all if I'm a Mavs fan. Obviously Avery didn't care for the #1 seed, having Stackhouse and Diop sit and starting DJ BENGA OF ALL PEOPLE.

so,
- no Stackhouse, Diop
- getting Devin Harris and Adrian Griffin back into the groove of things
- PHX shoots 99% from 3 point land
- down 22 points
.......still had a chance to win.

I see a lot of positives. I'm glad they finally stood up for themselves too - all year long Avery's been preaching "hard fouls...hard fouls...hard fouls" and they finally did that tonight. Should make for a fun series if we see them again in the playoffs...

 

[Fillmoe]

avery is scared of the kings he rather play the clippers/memphis

 

[mavsman]

avery is scared of the kings he rather play the clippers/memphis

I don't think Avery's scared of anybody. I think losing the last of 3 games to the Golden State Warriors pretty much mathematically eliminates you from gaining the #1 seed when you're already down a game...

 

[Milles]

Not worried at all if I'm a Mavs fan. Obviously Avery didn't care for the #1 seed, having Stackhouse and Diop sit and starting DJ BENGA OF ALL PEOPLE.

so,
- no Stackhouse, Diop
- getting Devin Harris and Adrian Griffin back into the groove of things
- PHX shoots 99% from 3 point land
- down 22 points
.......still had a chance to win.

I see a lot of positives. I'm glad they finally stood up for themselves too - all year long Avery's been preaching "hard fouls...hard fouls...hard fouls" and they finally did that tonight. Should make for a fun series if we see them again in the playoffs...

It reads as though the Mavs only got back in the game because 4 of the Suns starters were on the bench. Had the Suns been playing to humiliate, it could have been really, really, ugly.

With his team locked into the No. 2 playoff spot in the conference, Suns coach Mike D'Antoni sat Marion, Steve Nash, Bell and Thomas through the first 6:27 of the final quarter, when the Mavericks rallied to cut a 13-point deficit to 100-94 on Nowitzki's drive with 5:33 to play.



All four came back, and with the Suns leading 104-98, Diaw blocked Jason Terry's layup try, Bell made a 3-pointer, then Thomas sank another and it was 110-98 with 2:54 left. Dallas never got it to single digits again.


D'Antoni said he would have preferred sitting all four down for the entire quarter.

 

[mavsman]

Sure Miles you're right, that's when they did make that run. But one could make the claim the reason why the Suns even jumped out to that big of a lead was we started DJ Benga and kept two key players from playing tonight. Well and they shot ridiculously from 3 point land. (which was impressive)

It was a meaningless game - our chances of gaining the #1 seed died when we lost to the Warriors on the 1st night of the back to back.