Dallas Mavericks 2012-13 Picture Show

I'm already loving what I see from the Mavs.  Can't wait to be watching this season from my new apartment!  Thanks Shooters for the prayers today!

Mavericks 2012-13 Picture Show

Point Guard

Shooting -

- Guard

Small Forward

Power Forward and Center

On the Eve of Mav's Madness

Lookin' forward to surpassing everyone's expectations for how the Mavs will perform this year. The last couple seasons its been a slow start then a bang followed by consistent play. Change that this year and its a whole new ballgame, but I guess that can always be said going into the start of any season. Like they say... "The great thing about opening day is that your teams in first place."

So here's my Mavs lineup once Howard comes back - should be about 2 weeks.

PG - Jason Kidd - J.J. Barea - Roddy Beaubois
SG - Josh Howard - Jason Terry - Quinton Ross - Barea - Matt Carroll
SF - Shawn Marion - Howard - Humphries - Singleton
PF - Dirk Nowitzki - Gooden - Kris Humphries - James Singleton
C - Erick Dampier or Drew Gooden - Nowitzki - Humphries

Congratulations DeMarcus Ware on the contract extension! I'm PUMPED!

What A Day For The NBA

Basketball from 12 to 12. Its been an all day extravaganza for me and the NBA. Of course I was working for half of the big event, but I did get to catch most of that ridiculous 4th quarter and was stunned at the way the Mavericks had to pull off a Dirk buzzer beater just to avoid overtime. Interestingly enough, the talk of the game was the throw in 7ft'r I talked about in an earlier post. Ryan Hollins, too early to say what a throw in? He made a bigger impact this game than Diop has made all year! Now that's not to say that Diop had all the opportunities in the world but more that I'm liking what I'm hearing.

Two things I heard over the airways that I think caught mine and the rest of the DFFL crowd were the block shot, which I heard he went up like 20ft. to get, and the ally-oop he slammed home from Kidd. I don't think I can read too much into this quite yet, but it is fun to talk about. Matt Carroll by the way logged 3 minutes.

And now my night is coming to an end. The last and probably the biggest game is being played in Los Angeles tonight in a match-up of the Lakers tm and the Lebrons tm. There's nothing like a good game when your winding down. So that's what I'm going to do.

See you in Nacogdoches.

Will the Cowboys sign Ray Lewis?

Interesting Day

Quite a day indeed. Sports seem to have picked up since I've started writing this here ole blog, Dallas sports at least. Let's run down what news we got today:

1. Brian Stewart fired (Cowboys Def. Coordinator)
2. Mavericks trade Diop for Matt Carroll and some other 7ft looser
3. Jason Garrett might be going to St. Louis (he's on his way, probably there now, but it has to do with employment)

Bout time we kicked Stewart's ass out of Dallas. He sucked! Just goes to show you how much potential and talent this team has when Wade Phillips took over the defense.

Diop for Matt Carroll?? Questionable though it does save some money in the long run. Longer contract, contract decreases in value as the years go on when Diop's increases. Carroll is supposed to be a great 3 point shooter though his 3pt. % is a quite a bit down this year. I'm thinking Wally Szcerbiak? Maybe?? I'll take a Kidd dish out to a wide open Czcarbiak.



Send the 7 footer to Shawn Bradley day camp.

I've always hoped Jason Garrett would get hired elsewhere. Good for him. I didn't want him to necessarily go because he was a bad coach though I questioned him this year. I was really just hoping he'd go to shake things up in Dallas. After this last season it needed to happen. Hopefully the Cowboys gained something by being forced to subtract something. Is that going to be Mike Shanahan or Gruden? I don't know. They need to demote Wade to D-Cor. I don't think even Wade thinks he could do much better. "Wade, we are still paying you butt loads of money, just focus on the defense from here on. We're bringing in Mike."