It’s pretty standard behavior for athletes and coaches to find excuses when they come up short, especially under the harsh glare of the postseason.
For the Mavericks, the target is pretty easy to find after their latest Playoff flameout: Josh Howard and his bong.
“Yeah,” Dirk said. “Obviously, very disappointing what happened in the playoffs — bad timing. I think in the playoffs it’s really time to focus on basketball and not let distractions come up.
So I’m very, very disappointed with the timing of the whole thing, but I still try to keep them all together, try to make everybody play as hard as they can. But it wasn’t good enough.”
Yes, I’m sure Howard’s candor about his habitual drug use was a pain in the rear to deal with, but was it enough for the team to lose focus in a Playoff series? Methinks not.
Whatever happened to admitting that you simply got beat by a better squad?
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I don’t even particularly like Dirk.
Lebron
CP3
Dwight
Duncan
Amare
KG
Wade
Pau
Deron
nuggets will finally have a point guard who can get all the scorers the ball and kidd will never have to shoot.
mavs will have a leader with heart and passion, and it’ll make dirk a very good second banana.
btw, the top 6 guys make a FRIGHTENING team USA. ducan won’t be on the team but the other 5 make a dominant starting 5.
with that said, i do have a hard time saying he’s definitely in the top 10 category.
if avery replaces george karl, i guarantee the nuggets will have home court in next years’ playoff. but not before a head or two rolled in denver.
I despair.
please.
he has a nice J and he devoloped a lot of drive to the basket. but if you can’t see how dirk is an easy target for some good old sports hate something must be wrong with you or you are simply a fan.
They gave up to much and got a player they overrated .
How could the management think that a change at the Point would be that easy.
There is always space to do better for every player . (I never saw a player who was perfect from the field with no turnovers an incredible handle the best D on the planet and so on. )
But hey if your team doesn’t support you or isn’t able to do so you can do what you want it wont help .
Go and ask Kobe.
I never said that Dirk is as good as Kobe .
I just wanted to show that even better players can’t leave the first round with no supporting cast.
And that you are thinking that the Lakers are only that good because they have Kobe is dumb he is a big reason but not the only one.
They have an excellent coaching staff inclusive Mr. Phil Jackson that worked out a great system and every piece of the puzzle is working great and because of that Kobe is winning and is able to shine . Without his team supporting him he would still just have good stats.
Great comment and so surprising .
The thing about Dirk and why he doesn’t get the respect he deserves is to complex for me to understand, especially if you see what he acomplished.
But all those guys that rode the ‘Dirk sucks bandwagon’ will always stick with that because…because…yes now I have it because he all alone lost three series three years in a row and never won a chip .
So for every NBA star that didn’t win a series/chip : You Suck.
Sarcasm is infiltrating my comments.
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