what basketball team are you
well pretty pretty familiar with we moved here about six months ago or a year ago so i'm pretty familiar with the Mavericks
most familiar with
yeah where'd you move from
North Carolina
uh-huh
well yeah the Mavericks uh have done fairly well in the past but doesn't look like they're going to do too good this year
nope not doesn't look like
maybe maybe they'll surprise us though reckon
yeah that would be a big surprise
it would be a big surprise
yeah do you do you follow basketball
oh i kind of follow it a little bit i'm not a great fan of it but uh you know i read a little bit about it and follow it on the radio and everything
but i was glad to see them get rid of that guy Tarpley although by far the best player they've ever had i guess
Tarpley
yeah i think he i think he he was i i think it went on went on too long you want to get her out of here
yeah it did it did and and they had to do they had to get rid of him
but i couldn't believe they'd given him a contract like they had where that they couldn't get rid of him
yeah well they already he already had uh two strikes against him when they gave him that contract
yeah uh
i guess they felt like that was enough that
you know
uh if that you know if if they had to get out of it they could and they wouldn't want out of it unless he did something wrong
yeah
if he did that well that'd cancel the contract i guess
no that's true that's right if you get the third strike they can break the contract and if doesn't you want to pay him that much money because he's that good
yeah
yes that's right he'd be worth it yeah he'd be worth it
yeah that makes sense
uh did you uh see the score of their first game against San Antonio
but there's gonna
oh they got blasted didn't they
yeah they lost by uh forty or fifty points hundred and uh
yeah
that was unbelievable i i'd i hadn't seen that score i just heard somebody talking about they'd gotten beaten real bad
yep
and uh but i think they did better last night though didn't they
yeah they lost in overtime by a point or two
yeah so that was a good game i guess
yep
i i really don't follow them that closely there although there was a good article today in the in the Sunday Magazine about uh Brad Davis did you read that
oh yeah
nope nope what did it say
course uh
well it just uh this is going to be his last year but it just you know he just been it's amazing that he's one of the original Mavericks you know still playing
hm yeah i don't think i was aware of that he was an original Maverick huh
he is the only original Maverick yeah he started out with them when they started
and has made just to make the team every year since then so and you know you don't you don't make the team if you're not any good
uh-huh
yep
so he's done well six hundred thousand a year
is that right that's what he makes
huh uh-huh
and he's worth it i guess
well how do you think they'll finish this year
i mean
huh
not too good i imagine what do you think
no i don't see how that nah they won't even
they don't they won't
they won't even come close to the play-offs i don't think
hm i don't think so they're now they're aiming trying they're wishfully hoping i mean they've lowered their sites from play-off to maybe five hundred which and that's probably a pretty big stretch
they what
yeah yeah
that's a big stretch probably yeah and uh but boy they you know they've had some darn good teams in the past
yep
yeah
i guess that's why it's so hard to swallow you know right off the bat they started doing well
but
yep how do they you kind of wonder how they let themselves get to where they have such an old team
yeah it makes you they've had some coach problems over the years uh
Motta was probably the best they've ever had or ever will have but he i don't know he just he was such a hot head
that he just quit one time
oh yeah
and man once he made up his mind to do something like that he gone he don't change his mind
but he was by far i think the best coach they ever had
uh-huh
but he couldn't get along with
with who
i i mean Aguirre
oh Aguirre
yeah Aguirre
um-hum
and uh he he had a hot temper
yeah i haven't followed them too close until uh we moved we moved here i you know i remember seeing them in the play-offs a couple of years ago i guess
uh-huh
uh-huh
yeah probably yeah at least two years ago or longer
it yeah
but they did they used to have some darned good teams
uh-huh
but uh
i've always been a and i don't follow basketball that closely but i've always been a a Celtics fan because i love i love to watch Larry Bird play
uh-huh yeah i like watching the Celtics play they're uh they play uh have played a good brand of basketball it's real teamwork oriented
always you can always count on them playing a good brand of basketball
and of course so you can the Lakers so can you depend on the Lakers for doing that
uh-huh
but i don't know i just always liked old
old Bird he just can do things that
i don't think humans are supposed to be able to do with a basketball you know him and Magic Johnson and old Jordan
uh-huh
but we'll have to keep our fingers crossed i guess for the old Mavericks
yeah it'll take at least that
well and they got a they got a good owner i mean he's willing to spend the bucks to get what they need so i think it's just a just a matter of time till they it may take them a couple of years
well i imagine it will they're down to i mean like their top there's four of their starting five are like thirty over you know thirty three thirty
uh-huh yeah
so you're talking you're talking about pretty well having to rebuild from scratch
and that that's
yeah that's just too old for a basketball team
yep
man old old Larry Johnson
