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Post subject: Mavs-Lakers playoff series is long overdue
 Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 04:20 PM PST
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It's easy to forget that the Mavericks ran into the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs three times in a span of five years.
It's easy to forget that because the Lakers are one of only three Western Conference teams that Dallas hasn't faced in the playoffs this millennium.
Lakers. Clippers. Seattle/Oklahoma City.
That's it.
Those are the only three West foes that the Mavs haven't encountered in the postseason since their breakthrough squad of 2000-01 came back from 2-0 down to win a Game 5 in Utah on what is commonly referred to as the $35 million layup ... because that's roughly how much money Calvin Booth earned in a free-agent contract from the Sonics just a few months after his series-clinching bucket in Salt Lake City.
(An aside: I recently heard a story about that unforgettable series that I actually either can't remember hearing before or have simply deleted from my disintegrating memory. It seems that Don Nelson's speech to his team of playoff neophytes before Game 3, with the Jazz just one win away from the second round, came with a promise. "Win these two games at home," Nellie told the young Mavs, "and I'll figure out a way to win us a Game 5 in Utah." I wonder if he really believed it when he said.)
Anyway ...
I bring all of this up now because I'm still thinking of Friday's long-awaited Staples Center breakthrough against the Lakers. We repeat: It would be foolish to overstate the importance of one win in late October, especially with Pau Gasol out injured, meaning that L.A. was playing without its No. 2 difference-maker. All I'm saying is that the buzz you could feel through the TV on Friday night kept reminding me how overdue we are for a Mavs-Lakers series ... before we even bring up the Mark Cuban/Phil Jackson trash-talk factor that could only make the matchup wild after years of trash-talking from afar between rival owner and coach.
Link: http://espn.go.com/dallas/columns/maver ... st/4618742 |
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Post subject: RE: Mavs-Lakers playoff series is long overdue
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 05:59 PM PST
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| This is even less a rivalry, than that immagined by the Aimless Wanderers. The Lakers have met the Prancing Ponies three times in post-season, and have dispatched them into oblivion three times. Allow the Laker fans to stifle a collective yawn. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Mavs-Lakers playoff series is long overdue
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 06:15 PM PST
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cuckooroller wrote:
This is even less a rivalry, than that immagined by the Aimless Wanderers. The Lakers have met the Prancing Ponies three times in post-season, and have dispatched them into oblivion three times. Allow the Laker fans to stifle a collective yawn.
Exactly. I think that the Dallas Donkey's are just riding a hot start. Once the Lakers get it together and get Pau back, they will roll over them like my grandma rolls those home made tortillas every weekend! |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Mavs-Lakers playoff series is long overdue
Posted: Nov 04, 2009 - 06:27 PM PST
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| Forget it, it aint gona happen. |
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