A couple of comments about the Mavs game

[Celtic4Hire@xxxxxxx]

The refs really missed some calls in this game. Two drives by PP were gets totally butchered were somehow missed. On the other side, a blatant traveling by PP and a double dribble by Blount gets missed.....

I have to recant my "stop the Hunter/Mihm/Banks" requests. We have yet to beat a playoff team in this run (Denver may not be one soon) with Walter in the core lineup. We just got murdered on the boards by a weak rebounding team in Dallas. I was willing to go to the playoffs and give it a shot with what we got. However, we have already failed test 1 (Mavs). Test two (Spurs) and Test three (Nets) are forthcoming. But I already think the results are in. We may still make it in but we won't have a dream of a chance of winning a playoff game with Walter at the power forward spot. I only hope would be if Raef comes back in time. So I again put out a call for playing Mihm or Hunter instead of Walter. If we win playing one of those at the power forward spot, it would obviously be great. But if we lose, at least we went for it in a conventional way. Why try and go make the playoffs with a gimmick like Walter at power forward, knowing we will get killed on the boards and lose in the playoffs anyways. If you went with Hunter or Mihm, at least you got hope they could grow and step up to the challenge. Just doesn't make sense to me....

Don Nelson admitted today that he should have pulled Walker in the first matchup with the Cs and some other games but he wanted to give him some confidence. He said he can no longer fool around and will only play guys who are getting the job done....

A couple of other quickies:

Mihm's fall away jumper in the post is horrible...

I think Hunter looks good on defense and looks like he has the quickness to defend the small forwards. However, he just looks lost on offense/passing...

How many times does PP have to be stripped going against 1 on two before he gives it up? Too many to count as he seems to be working on the that move unsuccessfully all season....

We need to scout out Brent Barry. I have been out of town since Barry has come back so I haven't had a chance. I tried tonight during timeouts to check him out. I have been hearing that the Sonics have been attibuting their improved play to his return. What I saw tonight was that Flip would bring up the ball but Barry would direct the offense, kind of like a coach on the floor. He made a sick ally-oop pass to Rashard for a dunk. I am just trying to figure how he would fit in with the Cs. Maybe what Danny is thinking is that he would really complement Banks well. BB could direct the offense and make the creative passes while Banks would bring up the ball, play the D against the other 1s and would do the penetration. Maybe he is better fit than I earlier gave him credit for. However, he isn't going to be our point guard. Maybe if you sign BB, you can trade Ricky D for some help in other areas....

DJessen33