If a man had money, he would buy his favorite sporting franchise and pump as much money into it as would be needed for them to succeed in winning the ultimate prize, a championship ring.
At least one NBA basketball franchise owner is finding out that it doesn’t matter how much money you have or throw at your project, the ultimate prize may well be out of reach.
Unlike in the real world, where money guarantees results, NBA basketball players are a different breed of individual and they tend to live in their own little fantasy world where results, to them it seems, aren’t as important as their ‘image’.
Case in point would be LeBron James, who is the heir apparent to taking Kobe’s crown as the leagues best player when the LA Lakers star eventually calls it a day.
Whenever I think of LeBron, I think of that ‘King James’ pose he makes under the basket after a slam dunk with the broadcaster frothing at the mouth in his adulation of what he has just witnessed.
Sorry but I can’t get excited about a man who can jump but can’t subtract 2 from 3 and come up with 1.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, the Cavs trailed by 3 points, James ran the ball and just when you think he’s going to pull up for a three point jumper as time is about to expire on the clock, he tries to dish it off under the bucket for a 2 point play, lunacy.
Maybe he should have stayed in school that extra year.
Back to the Mavericks, the continual failure of the Dallas Mavericks roster does nothing but confirm that the obscene amount of money given to these ‘athletes’ is money misspent and hardly incentive for the vast majority to win a championship.
The blame is not all laid at the feet of the players when it comes to Cuban’s Mavs. Head coach Avery Johnson has certainly played an integral part in their misfortune to date.
Certainly, this writer is making a judgment from the outside looking in but the facts remain that this team which acquired, ‘the missing link to a championship run,’ Jason Kidd, is no closer to a championship today than it was when Golden State Warriors coach Don Nelson left the organization.
If you took Dirk Nowitzki out of the Mavs, their playoff hopes would be in tatters instantly.
Certainly, they aren’t the only team to fall into this category but they have been spending big since Mark Cuban arrived with his open checkbook.
The 2008 playoffs get underway on Saturday and Dallas has a first up assignment against the New Orleans Hornets. The Hornets are not the easybeats of year’s gone by and they, on what we have seen thus far this season, will have little trouble in eliminating the Mavs.
The Mavs have always been and still are today, a team that plays their best basketball when they run. The halfcourt game that they try to play is simply beyond them.
The theory behind it is fine. But you don;t win games on paper or with theories, they are won on the floor.
There is no doubt that teams win championships thanks to their defense, and that defense has a physical presence. Who is the physical presence in the Dallas outfit?
The Dallas Mavericks are a white elephant that is going to continue to cost Cuban millions.
Whilst posted halfway through game 2 with Dallas down 80-58 with 7-47 on the clock in the third quarter, I put this together before the playoffs began, and so far it sounds like it’s going to ring true. Funny enough, they did try to play an up tempo style in game 2 but obviously forgot that you have to play some sort of D for this to actually work.
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