SB Nation User Blog: jthig32

Eyre Up

jthig32 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:23:56 -0000

Eyre Up

Evan says Eyre is up tonight. Assumption is that Mad Dog is optioned.

McBriar has fractured foot.

jthig32 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:49 -0000

Out 6-8 weeks.

Mat McBriar has fractured right foot

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Todd Archer reports that P Mat McBriar suffered a fractured right foot when Arizona's Sean Morey blocked the punt in overtime. He's expected to miss 6-8 weeks.

We'll let you know as soon as we have some info about potential punting replacements.

Link

*sigh*

Mavs to Top 10?

jthig32 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:04:23 -0000

Interesting article from Fish about the Mavs possibly trying to trade way up in the draft. It's a real longshot, I think, but I would LOVE to get Joe Alexander in here.

We’ll frame this for now as "educated gossip’’ rather than as "sourced information,’’ but DallasBasketball.com has been offered multiple hints that the Mavs are in conversations that could give the team a top-10 pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft. And we can state with certainty that there are talent gurus within the organization who covet Eric Gordon and Joe Alexander as mid-top-10 values.

http://www.dallasbasketball.com/fullColumn.php?id=491

Vescey says Mavs have hired Carlisle.

jthig32 — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:27:48 -0000

Now, I think this quite shaky, considering the source, but Peter Vescey is reporting that the Mavs have hired Carlisle.

One newspaper has already picked up on the report.

Link

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Rick Carlisle is reportedly headed back to the NBA as a head coach.

Analyst Peter Vecsey, speaking on NBA TV, reported Carlisle would take over for the recently fired Avery Johnson.

In six seasons as a coach, two with Detroit and four with Indiana, Carlisle has compiled a 281-211 record. He was the league's coach of the year in 2002 when he guided the Pistons to a 50-win season.

Avery is gone.

jthig32 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:08:02 -0000

Per ESPN.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3375306

The Dallas Mavericks parted company with coach Avery Johnson on Wednesday, a day following the team's first-round exit from the NBA playoffs, ESPN.com has learned.

Speculation about Johnson's future with the franchise had been mounting for weeks, ever since Dallas struggled to reach the playoffs as the seventh seed following its midseason acquisition of point guard Jason Kidd from New Jersey.

Johnson became Mavs coach during the 2004-05 season and walks away with a 194-70 record (.735) but only a 23-24 mark in the playoffs. Host New Orleans wrapped up a 4-1 series rout of Dallas with Tuesday night's 99-94 victory.

"This is tough for me," Johnson said after the game, not specifically responding to a question about his job security but struggling to contain his disappointment after the Mavs' second straight flameout in the first round.

NBA front-office offices sources told ESPN.com that both the Mavs and Johnson, feeling that a coaching change was inevitable, wanted to come to a resolution quickly so Dallas could begin interviewing candidates and Johnson could pursue another job.

Sources close to the situation have said that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban actually considered firing Johnson before the playoffs, specifically after Cuban and Johnson engaged in an emotional argument after a March 18 home loss to the Lakers.

Cuban refused to speak with reporters after Tuesday's loss -- Dallas' ninth playoff defeat in a row on the road since taking a 2-0 lead in the 2006 NBA Finals.

Cuban will now let ALL bloggers in

jthig32 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:01:30 -0000

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/basketball/mavs/stories/032808dnspomavsblog.3623e01. html

So there you guy, Wes and Jake. You can now get credentialed.

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Avery Johnson

jthig32 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:33:32 -0000

Does anyone need ANY more proof that he's a ridiculous control freak?

Anyone?

Avery sheds some light on lineup

jthig32 — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:52:31 -0000

This was posted on dallas-mavs.com. Bullet 2 seems to contain some nice info:

Didn't see this anywhere in the last few threads. Avery was on GAC yesterday (wed. 10/24) and had the following observations:

No comment about Kobe, which was prompted by Galloway preceeding his question with a "I know you can't talk about another player under contract with a different team but.."
Lack of size is something they need to address at the 2. He knows the starting lineup and says we'll see it once the team is back full and healthy (presumably, once Josh returns). He says Jason Terry has a really good shot at being this year's 6th man of the year. Jerry Stackhouse will probably be the best 7th man in the league.
Talked about him having to stretch out the team last year because of how weak the bench was, and that made them fatigued down the stretch. Said he hopes to be able to avoid that this year, but will not take anything in the regular season for granted.
Pointed out that the team faces less uncertainty this time than it did last year when they lost DA's leadership, Griffin's consistency, and Van Horn who "made a shot or two once in a while."

George takes free agency

jthig32 — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:07:02 -0000

Buried at the bottom of this article:

http://www.star-telegram.com/287/story/92905.html

Is the note that George is exercising his player option and will become a free agent.

Any thoughts on this? I'd say the Mavs are probably not bothered by this.

Cowboys signing Davis

jthig32 — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:21:04 -0000

Per ESPN, Cowboys and Davis are finishing up a contract:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2787446