{"id":105,"date":"2006-06-12T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2008-04-08T19:33:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:33:05","slug":"playoff-notes-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/playoff-notes-6","title":{"rendered":"Playoff Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<li>How do you think Shaq feels when the double-team comes and the open man is Antoine Walker? Is he thinking he should repost and wait for the ball to come back? Hahahaha!!<\/li>\n<li>Walker obviously didn&#8217;t watch any of the Phoenix games where the announcers kept repeating that missed three pointers ignite the fast break.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody talks about the excellent Mavs defense being the reason that the Heat can&#8217;t score. I&#8217;m not so sure. The Heat aren&#8217;t capitalizing on their mismatches especially Shaq vs. Diop\/Dampiere. Those guys should have 5 fouls <strong>each<\/strong> at the end of the game, not 5 fouls total.<\/li>\n<li>The Heat pull within 13 with 5 minutes remaining in the game. Shouldn&#8217;t Riley put Wade and Shaq back into the game?<\/li>\n<li>Don Nelson did an incredible job building this team. Everybody thought he was crazy when he dismantled the &#8220;3 J&#8217;s&#8221; team of the 90s and replaced them with the likes of Nowitzki and Shawn Bradley. I found myself questioning Nelson&#8217;s sanity as late as 2003 when he acquired both Antawn Jameson and Antoine Walker, effectively creating a logjam (or Antoine jam?) at power forward. Here&#8217;s a few highlights:\n<ul>\n<li>1998: Traded the draft rights to Robert Traylor and Pat Garrity for the draft rights for Dirk Nowitzki.<\/li>\n<li>1999: Acquired Steve Nash via trade<\/li>\n<li>2000: Drafted Eduardo Najera<\/li>\n<li>2003: Drafted Josh Howard<\/li>\n<li>2003: Signed Marquis Daniels as a free agent<\/li>\n<li>2003: Acquired Walker and Jameson in trades<\/li>\n<li>2004: Drafted Devon Harris<\/li>\n<li>2004: Traded Najera for Erick Dampier<\/li>\n<li>2004: Traded Antawn Jameson for Jerry Stackhouse and the #5 draft pick (which ended up being Devon Harris).<\/li>\n<li>2004: Traded Antoine Walker for Jason Terry after losing Steve Nash to free agency (effectively making lemonade out of lemons).<\/li>\n<li>2005: Signed DeSagna Diop as a free agent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Given Nash&#8217; weak defense, it now appears that letting him go was the right move for the Mavs. Terry and Harris are a potent 1-2 combination at point guard and both play better defense than Nash.<\/li>\n<li>If Haslem can&#8217;t play because of the shoulder injury on Tuesday, I think Riley should start Mourning at power forward. Of course, I also think he should take Walker out of the starting lineup in favor of Posey, but that won&#8217;t happen, either.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you think Shaq feels when the double-team comes and the open man is Antoine Walker? Is he thinking he should repost and wait for the ball to come back? Hahahaha!! Walker obviously didn&#8217;t watch any of the Phoenix games where the announcers kept repeating that missed three pointers ignite the fast break. Everybody &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/playoff-notes-6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playoff Notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,810,808,809,821,806,812,1560,820,813],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-don-nelson","tag-heat","tag-mavericks","tag-pat-riley","tag-playoffs","tag-shaq","tag-sports","tag-steve-nash","tag-suns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}