Re: Western Conference Playoffs - 1st Round Discussion Thread
Unlikely. Mavs fans have been pretty supportive of Rondo and there aren't very many players that get booed. Terry likely won't get many boo's in his playoff return to the AAC either.
Now, if Rondo starts making bone-headed plays and bricking open shots, you might start hearing some boo's.
Rondo is going to become the scapegoat for the team in the media but really things haven't been that bad. The Mavs had the best offensive rating in the entire league over the last month of the season, and that was with Rondo in the lineup. Rondo put in some fine defensive performances over the course of the season too, but it seems to me like the playoffs have started and the butting of heads between Rick and Rondo has reared its ugly head again. I think letting Rondo play a 6th man role and play with guys that don't need the ball in their hands much offensively and letting him run the offense in those situations would be a smart way to handle things but I doubt Rondo will accept taking the kind of role at this point. He's too old, he's too stuck in his ways, he's too used to running the offense the way he wants to.
I understand why we brought him in, and I'm sure we'll see blog post upon think piece upon Tweet about how horrible a decision it was to bring him in. I'm sure we'll get comparisons to what Rondo did here and what Brandan Wright and Jae Crowder did with Phoenix and Boston. I'm sure we'll see lots and lots of Cuban vs. Morey comparisons and people will ask if Cuban has lost the plot and I'm sure tons will say he's hugely overrated and the whole nine yards. But I understand why we brought him in. In theory, if it works, its a potentially deadly lineup. A lineup of Rondo/Ellis/Parsons/Dirk/Chandler sounded pretty damn good even to the biggest skeptics out there but due to various things its never really panned out and I don't think many anticipated just how badly Carlisle and him would butt heads.
As much as I wanted it to work, after last night, I just want this season to be over. I want the Mavs to bring in youth. That's why I don't have a problem with overpaying Parsons, he's young, he's got potential, yeah, he had a poor first season with us, but he also dealt with a bunch of injuries and massive roster turnover throughout the season. I'm tired of seeing the likes of Amare Stoudemire coming in after we trade away other youth. I think Cuban and the Mavs in general need to step back and look at what happened this season. They dominated poor competition but when they played playoff teams they played really poorly. This isn't an upper echelon team, its a misfit band of mostly veterans and castaways from other teams that has just enough firepower to be a solid enough team and get into the playoffs.
The past few years, that approach has worked well enough with the way guys like Vince Carter and Shawn Marion have played, but its coming to an end. We've traded all our draft picks away the last like 5 years in a row, we have really only two young guys with a lot of upside I'd say in Parsons and Aminu. We still haven't found the next franchise center piece after Dirk. Cuban needs to realize that for whatever reason, Dallas isn't a place where big name free agents are going to run towards with open arms. They're going to go to the Lakers, the Clippers, the Rockets, the Thunder, the Bulls, and other teams like that before the Mavs so we need to actually develop some players of our own instead of letting other teams do it for us and then getting them when they're past their prime or trading the players we do develop ourselves for them.
Wow, I ranted a lot there, lol. I don't expect anyone to read that, but I just wanted to vent some frustrations I've had this season with the Mavs. Being this kind of first-round exit team wasn't so bad when we hadn't won a championship but now that we have, I'd rather see us suck for a year or two or at least miss the playoffs and then come back with a much stronger team, than do just enough to get into the playoffs and then hope we can make another crazy run.
Unlikely. Mavs fans have been pretty supportive of Rondo and there aren't very many players that get booed. Terry likely won't get many boo's in his playoff return to the AAC either.
Now, if Rondo starts making bone-headed plays and bricking open shots, you might start hearing some boo's.
Rondo is going to become the scapegoat for the team in the media but really things haven't been that bad. The Mavs had the best offensive rating in the entire league over the last month of the season, and that was with Rondo in the lineup. Rondo put in some fine defensive performances over the course of the season too, but it seems to me like the playoffs have started and the butting of heads between Rick and Rondo has reared its ugly head again. I think letting Rondo play a 6th man role and play with guys that don't need the ball in their hands much offensively and letting him run the offense in those situations would be a smart way to handle things but I doubt Rondo will accept taking the kind of role at this point. He's too old, he's too stuck in his ways, he's too used to running the offense the way he wants to.
I understand why we brought him in, and I'm sure we'll see blog post upon think piece upon Tweet about how horrible a decision it was to bring him in. I'm sure we'll get comparisons to what Rondo did here and what Brandan Wright and Jae Crowder did with Phoenix and Boston. I'm sure we'll see lots and lots of Cuban vs. Morey comparisons and people will ask if Cuban has lost the plot and I'm sure tons will say he's hugely overrated and the whole nine yards. But I understand why we brought him in. In theory, if it works, its a potentially deadly lineup. A lineup of Rondo/Ellis/Parsons/Dirk/Chandler sounded pretty damn good even to the biggest skeptics out there but due to various things its never really panned out and I don't think many anticipated just how badly Carlisle and him would butt heads.
As much as I wanted it to work, after last night, I just want this season to be over. I want the Mavs to bring in youth. That's why I don't have a problem with overpaying Parsons, he's young, he's got potential, yeah, he had a poor first season with us, but he also dealt with a bunch of injuries and massive roster turnover throughout the season. I'm tired of seeing the likes of Amare Stoudemire coming in after we trade away other youth. I think Cuban and the Mavs in general need to step back and look at what happened this season. They dominated poor competition but when they played playoff teams they played really poorly. This isn't an upper echelon team, its a misfit band of mostly veterans and castaways from other teams that has just enough firepower to be a solid enough team and get into the playoffs.
The past few years, that approach has worked well enough with the way guys like Vince Carter and Shawn Marion have played, but its coming to an end. We've traded all our draft picks away the last like 5 years in a row, we have really only two young guys with a lot of upside I'd say in Parsons and Aminu. We still haven't found the next franchise center piece after Dirk. Cuban needs to realize that for whatever reason, Dallas isn't a place where big name free agents are going to run towards with open arms. They're going to go to the Lakers, the Clippers, the Rockets, the Thunder, the Bulls, and other teams like that before the Mavs so we need to actually develop some players of our own instead of letting other teams do it for us and then getting them when they're past their prime or trading the players we do develop ourselves for them.
Wow, I ranted a lot there, lol. I don't expect anyone to read that, but I just wanted to vent some frustrations I've had this season with the Mavs. Being this kind of first-round exit team wasn't so bad when we hadn't won a championship but now that we have, I'd rather see us suck for a year or two or at least miss the playoffs and then come back with a much stronger team, than do just enough to get into the playoffs and then hope we can make another crazy run.
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