Clueso schrieb:
ich denke dallas bzw. marc cuban sollte den roster einfach mal in ruhe lassen evtl. noch irgendwoher nen PG ziehen und es dann einfach mal sein lassen die sollen mal länger zusammen bleiben als nur ein jahr es sieht doch jeder bzw. hat's doch jeder gesehen was es bringt jedes jahr seinen halben kader umzumodelln!
Das denke ich auch!Wenn ein solider guter echter STAR-PG zu bekommen ist dann zugreifen.ansonsten auf jeden fall so belassen,harris und die defense reifen lassen.
DALLAS - Mavericks point guard Devin Harris planned to follow up his rookie season by spending his summer vacation at Avery Johnson's basketball boot camp, absorbing hard-driving, hands-on direction from the Little General.
However, the NBA's labor negotiations have muddied the agenda.
"I hope so," Harris said of possibly playing under the Mavericks' head coach this summer. "It's a great chance for me to get better."
Johnson is determined to get better play out of his point guards. After the Game 6 loss to the Phoenix Suns, Dirk Nowitzki criticized the team's basketball IQ, a direct shot at Jason Terry, a career shooting guard who was forced to play the point this season. Johnson hopes to hasten Harris' on-court maturation -- and lessen the burden on Terry -- by taking the unusual step of coaching a summer team himself. It's usually a task handled by assistant coaches.
"I'm probably going to come back one of the most well-conditioned coaches next year, because I'm going to be wearing out Jason Terry and Devin Harris," Johnson said. "They're the first two on my hit list."
However, Harris' summer mentorship might be put on hold if a new collective bargaining agreement is not completed by June 30. League owners could then impose a lockout as early as July 1. As of now, NBA commissioner David Stern and players' union executive director Billy Hunter might have more influence over Harris' readiness for next season than the Mavs' tireless head coach.
"We so desperately need to have Devin contribute significant minutes for us next year that I think it's the most important thing for our franchise to have him experience that summer league," Mavs president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said. "It will be a big knock if we don't get that."
A lockout threatens to shut down the NBA's summer leagues, which run throughout July, as well as free agency, which begins July 1. October training camps also could be in danger if the two sides can't reach an agreement.
The Mavericks have planned two summer teams that will split play in three leagues. First- and second-year players, plus prospects, make up the brunt of summer-league rosters. Veterans, such as Terry, usually do not play in the summer leagues but can work individually on specific programs designed by the coaching staff.
Harris' development is the key motivation, but not the only one, for Johnson's commitment to coach this summer. Barring a lockout, Johnson also hopes to enlist Marquis Daniels, who failed to blossom in his second season, unlike teammate Josh Howard. An ankle injury last summer disrupted Daniels' progression and left him buried on Johnson's bench once Don Nelson retired with 18 games left in the season.
Howard, meanwhile, credited his two summers of playing under assistant coach Charlie Parker for his sophomore improvement. The Mavs believe Harris could see similar gains.
"You have to be ready to go and willing to learn and trying to grow," Howard said. "If you go out there with the mind-set that you're going to improve, you will."
With Steve Nash's departure to Phoenix, and Terry having played the point sporadically, Don Nelson rushed Harris into the starting point guard position to begin the season, a difficult adjustment often compared to that of a rookie quarterback starting in the NFL. Smart and fundamentally sound, Harris still wasn't ready to run Nelson's complex offense and was soon replaced by Terry. Johnson tried to ease Harris back in the rotation, but couldn't squeeze consistent minutes out of him and rarely used him in the playoffs.
"There is a learning curve," Harris said. "Sometimes people get it quickly, sometimes it takes them a little time. Coming to a winning team like this is kind of hard. We don't have the time to wait for me to develop."
Which is why Donnie Nelson is so high on the summer leagues and so alarmed at the prospect of a quiet July. He said he believes the Mavs are the only NBA franchise to field two summer teams (Parker will coach one team), allowing Johnson to split Harris and Daniels and work both at point guard for maximum minutes. Same for project centers DJ Mbenga and Pavel Podkolzin, two raw 7-footers the Mavs hope to develop into serviceable backups behind center Erick Dampier.
"You just see guys grow leaps and bounds, because they are able to do things in summer league that they really can't capture in their first couple of years," Donnie Nelson said. "It's really in those situations that you're able to spar through stuff that you don't have the luxury of doing in the NBA [season], where every possession is huge.
"We're all hopeful there can be a summer league. If there isn't, there is no question that it will be to the developmental detriment of a lot of young players."