[外電] Nuggets' Karl wants Mavs in playoffs

[nagisanoff ()]

If the Western Conference works out the way the Denver Nuggets want, they'll
open the playoffs against the Dallas Mavericks.

After losing to the Nuggets on Wednesday night, the Mavericks are only one
game ahead of the Oklahoma City Thunder for the third seed in the West with
four regular-season games remaining. As a division champion, the Thunder
would have the tiebreaker despite losing the season series to Dallas.

"If we had to pick and choose on it, we would probably say 55 percent Dallas,
45 percent Oklahoma City, only because Oklahoma City is athletic like we are
and they have two great players," Denver coach George Karl told Ian
Fitzsimmons of ESPN 103.3 FM's Galloway and Company, referring to Thunder
forward Kevin Durant and point guard Russell Westbrook. "They have two
All-Stars who are really in their prime and have never won on the playoff
stage. I just think right now our speed might have more effect against Dallas
than it will against Oklahoma City."

The Mavericks, who have lost their last four games and are 8-9 since a 21-1
run, are slumping as the postseason approaches. Dallas has lost its last nine
games against West playoff teams.

"I personally like to be in a better mode of winning more games than probably
Dallas," Karl said. "I like winning to be your partner going into the
playoffs. Some coaches don't, but I personally think you don't have to win
every game, but you want to be at least in a winning mode.

"I will give the benefit of the doubt that the Mavericks are a veteran, older
team that understands the playoffs. I think they'll be energized for the
playoffs."

The Nuggets defeated the Mavericks in five games during the second round of
the 2009 playoffs. Denver won this season's series, 3-1.

Karl, who mentioned that the Nuggets would have the "luxury" to double-team
off of Shawn Marion, believes that the Mavericks are a less difficult team to
defend than the Thunder because Dallas is a single-dimensional offensive
threat. Led by sweet-shooting power forward Dirk Nowitzki, the Mavericks rank
28th in the league in points in the paint and 26th in the league in free
throws attempted
"In a lot of ways, I think their strength is their weakness," Karl said.
"Their strength is they have tremendous ability to score by making jump
shots. They are the best jump-shooting team in the NBA by far. [Coach Rick]
Carlisle is a very good offensive guy in getting good shots and tricking
teams into open shots. They're very unselfish in finding the open man and
getting open jump shots.

"In some sense, the jump shot doesn't go in as much as scoring in the paint.
The two things I would say is I wish Dallas would get to the free throw line
more and I wish they would score more around the basket."

Tim MacMahon covers the Mavericks for ESPNDallas.com.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=6305580

金塊的教練Karl比較希望在季後賽對上小牛
另外稱讚了雷霆有兩個年輕好手(言下之意是小牛隊的陣容...)
看來在西區 人人都想宰小牛

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※ 編輯: nagisanoff      來自: 118.168.170.29       (04/08 11:19)
推 DM24Tim     :看了昨天的表現...不意外
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→ cjhs3630615 :這樣真不太好...
推 jacksn      :不意外 XD
→ ahsoo       :前場金塊比我們硬,競爭力也不比我們差, 後場我們輸
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