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How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Averaged 22/6/3 on 50/40/90. 32 minutes per game. Age 35. Took the Spurs to 7 games.
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Bran Fam Member
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
A good individual year, wasted on a medicore team.
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
One of his most efficient seasons. Mavs outplayed Spurs all series but lost due to combination of refs and slow starts.
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Bran Fam Member
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by masonanddixon
One of his most efficient seasons. Mavs outplayed Spurs all series but lost due to combination of refs and slow starts.
Mavs choked Game 1 down the stretch, refs had nothing to do with it. Dirk, Monta & Marion combined for 12/39 shooting in that game and it was tied going into the 4th and they only lost by 5 . They play average and Mavs possibly win the series in 6.
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by ImKobe
Mavs choked Game 1 down the stretch, refs had nothing to do with it. Dirk, Monta & Marion combined for 12/39 shooting in that game and it was tied going into the 4th and they only lost by 5 . They play average and Mavs possibly win the series in 6.
yeah at the end of Game 1 the Spurs played incredible defense.
It's more the calls at end of game 4 with the Blair ejection and game 7 calls
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by masonanddixon
yeah at the end of Game 1 the Spurs played incredible defense.
It's more the calls at end of game 4 with the Blair ejection and game 7 calls
Yep.
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I usually hit open layups
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
The only problem with Dirk is that he can't play 40 minutes per game like other stars, so his overall numbers aren't that high.
Per minute/per possession he was incredible, especially in terms of shooting. He scored more points per 100 possessions than Blake, Curry, Aldridge, ... .
Only Durant, Lebron, Carmelo, Cousins, Westbrook and Love scored more points per possession (20ppg scorer) and of these 6 only Lebron and Durant had better efficiency (TS%).
"Dirk Nowitzki averaged 1.11 points per play last season, tied with LeBron James for the league lead among the 89 players with at least 1,000 plays."
-- ESPN Stats & Information
Sadly, most people don't care about efficiency. That's why most people rank Aldridge above Dirk.
Basketball-Reference Link
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by eklip
The only problem with Dirk is that he can't play 40 minutes per game like other stars, so his overall numbers aren't that high.
Per minute/per possession he was incredible, especially in terms of shooting. He scored more points per 100 possessions than Blake, Curry, Aldridge, ... .
Only Durant, Lebron, Carmelo, Cousins, Westbrook and Love scored more points per possession (20ppg scorer) and of these 6 only Lebron and Durant had better efficiency (TS%).
"Dirk Nowitzki averaged 1.11 points per play last season, tied with LeBron James for the league lead among the 89 players with at least 1,000 plays."
-- ESPN Stats & Information
Sadly, most people don't care about efficiency. That's why most people rank Aldridge above Dirk.
Basketball-Reference Link
Yeah nobody who knows basketball thinks Aldridge was better. No one else in the league could've done what Dirk did with that Mavs team. I think it's because Aldridge is younger and Dirk doesn't care for the spotlight, but anyone who knows basketball knows Dirk is still easily top 5-8 in the league.
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King of LA
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
like i said, probably THE greatest pf of all time. Consistent producer at that age, extremely efficient, deadly from anywhere on the floor, had the greatest playoff run in 2011, etc.
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Gambling expert
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by masonanddixon
Yeah nobody who knows basketball thinks Aldridge was better. No one else in the league could've done what Dirk did with that Mavs team. I think it's because Aldridge is younger and Dirk doesn't care for the spotlight, but anyone who knows basketball knows Dirk is still easily top 5-8 in the league.
Just look how awful Dirk's 2011 teammates turned out.
Terry was straight garbage in Boston, Kidd was done in NY, Butler can't stay on a team, Barrea with another "Superstar PF" in Love is useless, Stephenson out of the league etc.
the only one that was still good is Tyson who won DPOY in 2012
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by StephHamann
Just look how awful Dirk's 2011 teammates turned out.
Terry was straight garbage in Boston, Kidd was done in NY, Butler can't stay on a team, Barrea with another "Superstar PF" in Love is useless, Stephenson out of the league etc.
the only one that was still good is Tyson who won DPOY in 2012
Yeah it's incredible really. I get a chuckle reading these espn nba rankings. As if anyone, ANYONE, would choose the likes of a Damian Lillard over Dirk. Get the hell out of here, ESPN.
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... on a leash
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by eklip
The only problem with Dirk is that he can't play 40 minutes per game like other stars, so his overall numbers aren't that high.
Per minute/per possession he was incredible, especially in terms of shooting. He scored more points per 100 possessions than Blake, Curry, Aldridge, ... .
Only Durant, Lebron, Carmelo, Cousins, Westbrook and Love scored more points per possession (20ppg scorer) and of these 6 only Lebron and Durant had better efficiency (TS%).
"Dirk Nowitzki averaged 1.11 points per play last season, tied with LeBron James for the league lead among the 89 players with at least 1,000 plays."
-- ESPN Stats & Information
Sadly, most people don't care about efficiency. That's why most people rank Aldridge above Dirk.
Basketball-Reference Link
Ranked Dirk Top SEVEN last year...
Only would put LeBron/Durant/Griffin/Howard/Paul/Westbrook ahead of him... No one else.
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by StephHamann
Just look how awful Dirk's 2011 teammates turned out.
Terry was straight garbage in Boston, Kidd was done in NY, Butler can't stay on a team, Barrea with another "Superstar PF" in Love is useless, Stephenson out of the league etc.
the only one that was still good is Tyson who won DPOY in 2012
Tim Duncan certainly wouldn't have won with that team.
Give me Dirk over Timmy
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The Beast In Me
Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Originally Posted by masonanddixon
yeah at the end of Game 1 the Spurs played incredible defense.
It's more the calls at end of game 4 with the Blair ejection and game 7 calls
So Terry's suspension was unfounded?
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Re: How Impressive was Dirk's season last year?
Underwhelming in the playoffs. Got bodied by Tiago and Diaw under single covererage. Good regular season though. Still a great shooter but not quick/athletic as used to be or a defensive cog for the Mavs.
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