Dallas Mavericks: Friday, December 30

[Red and White]

Poor shot selection, bad clutch defence, and some selfish play killed the raptors tonight. DeMar was a let down tonight. Sorry Bargs, your rebounding was in vane.

Thought Casey mad nice decisions (like the switch to the zone) but poor personel use. AC played way too much, and even though bayless got hurt, Calderon could have been playing more.

[Jclaw]

It wouldn't have been a mavs game if we hadn't blown a third quarter lead. Another positive-ish loss. I'll take it. They can never take Amir's put back away from me.

[mcHAPPY]

Tanking.

That made me laugh.

[Puffer]

Bargnani playing like he did makes this a win for Raptor fans, especially since they didn't hurt their draft chances.

[WhatWhat]

Everyone sucked except for Bargnani, and he was only good (downright in God Mode a period) offensively. Actually Barbosa was alright. Good offensive, atrocious defensively. The tank moves on, and those two raise their trade value. I ain't even mad.

That made me laugh.

After the game against the Pacers, I wanted to see (JJ) him in the post more, too. But my God, he's just an abysmal offensive player.

[stretch]

Draft Lottery Update

Bargnani playing like he did makes this a win for Raptor fans, especially since they didn't hurt their draft chances.

Here is the Anthony Davis sweepstakes update:

1. Washington /Detroit/Minnesota
4. Dallas/Boston/New Jersey
7. Phoenix/Sacramento/Houston/Utah Memphis/Toronto/Charlotte/Philadelphia/Cleveland

[tucas]

Bargnani actually did good on both ends of the floor in my opinion. He had a block but that number should have been 3 but the refs made bad calls that Devlin pointed out later. Bargnani has actually been playing good in general this season, must be all the Primo pasta and sauce

[RaptorsFan4Life]

[e2thed]

Damn if I could find that TSN intro with Bargs for last nights game, wow that was comedic genius.

Those TSN trolls really know whats good.

[ceez]

Bargs had a hell of a game but he couldnt hit anything there in those last 5 minutes. Really hurt any chances there might have been.

[irgigi]

Bargs had a hell of a game but he couldnt hit anything there in those last 5 minutes. Really hurt any chances there might have been.

That's why you don't bet on one player. Bargs hitting almost 100% 1st half let us keep up with Mavs for a while. I believe you don't expect him finish 40 points score 20/20 FG? Mavs had more last minute options. Jason Terry is the one who steps up when the team is falling behind for Mavs.
But Raps are still learning their game, so i'm fine with current performance.

[minks77]

I really felt this game was won when Ricky C realized Kidd was killing them, he made Jose look like one of these young, strong, active, high intensity types that have become so popular around the League.

Once JET and Beaubois took over the primary ball handling in the second half it flipped the script suddenly we had the old, slow, tired looking PG's who couldn't keep up.