is that it never would have happened if teams insisted on "resting their players". when avery (mavs) played donnie nelson (warriors) the last game of the regular season, he sat all his players and let the Warriors win, basically.. well, that cost them advancing into the second round.. kinda sucks when you rest your players, only to have the team that beats you use that win to get into the playoffs and BEAT your rested players... that's just funny as hell.
You need to look at the standings again. GS would've been the 8th seed even if Dallas had won that game. But I don't think teams look for any sort of advantage in the standings. Lakers could've easily lost against the Kings in the last game and they would've been the 8th seed. I thought they had a better chance facing the Mavs than the Suns.
He rested all his players against GS and then the next night played all the starters in a blow out of seattle
i think the mavs just dont match up well with the warriors..regardless of rest. They are a baby phoenix suns, run and gun ..they just shot the ball well and made key plays down the stretch to win the series..i mean they got swept during the regular season, obviuosly the warriors are the mavs cryptonite, sort of how the suns are our cryptonite..anyway thats just my opinion.
So let me get this straight... even after watching the Warriors pummel the Mavs in the PLAYOFFS, you think Dallas would've beaten them in the regular season if they just played their starters? I don't think you get it. The Golden State Warriors are damn good.
So many things could have happened and Dallas would have been strolling into the 2nd round The Clippers could have decided not to choke against the Kings and held on to the 8th seed. The Lakers could have lost against the Kings and GS would have been the 7th spot playing against Phoenix, Dallas defeats Lakers in 5
how about the irony of stephen jackson almost costing GS a playoff spot this year by beating them with a three pointer at the buzzer while he was still with Indiana, before he got traded? been reading about it in some of the postgame stories. that's pretty wild.
WHAT?!?!?!? oh.. i'm tripping.. they were two games up. sorry bad thread lock it up. but wouldn't it hvae been ironic if they rested their players against GS who made it in the playoffs by 1 game over the clippers, only to get beat by gs, when they would have manhandled the clippers?
EXACTLY!!!..if they couldnt even win in the freakin playoffs why would they beat them in the reg reason!!! starters or not..GSW has owned dallas so far just like phoenix owns the rockets.
the mavs home page on nba.com doesn't even acknowledge that the 1st round series took place. i wonder if mark cuban is in charge of that page. sounds like something he's do. sore losers.
don't forget we gave Golden State a game also by resting T-mac that one game. It was the first game where t-mac went out with a back strain 5 minutes into it.
Except the Warriors just beat the Mavs 4 out of 6 times. What makes you think the Mavs would have won in the regular season with nothing to play for if they were crushed when they had everything to play for?
The real irony is Donnie was the one went to Germany, brought back the 19 year old German, made him a great player; then Donnie destroyed this same player and his legacy with his own hands.
