GM Chad Anthony
Good afternoon everyone! I want to thank everyone who made it out today and I will be answering a questions. First I do want to say a few things about how our offseason and the first couple of weeks of the season have went so far.
As you all know I inherited an absolute mess. This will be a slow climb to get to the top of this league. But that IS our destination. Believe it or not, 4 of the 5 current starters were NOT on this team when I took it over. I wanted to come in and put my fingerprint on this team. I made the Wizards deal, and brought in Tsak and Jamal Crawford. I think Jamal has a bright future in this league and has started the season off wonderfully. We then brought in Travis Knight. He and Jake have been mentoring Andris Biedrins, our first rounder, and hopefully he can take over that starting job in the near future. I'm sure you all know we went after Hedo pretty hard. Actually offered him a good bit more than what he signed with New Orleans for. When we lost out on him we signed Dan Langhi. He is producing pretty well and we hope he can keep this pace up.
Ask the critics. Ask the so-called "experts". Ask the analysts. The Dallas Mavericks are supposed to be BAD this year. Well we have a 5 game sample so far. It's not much but it's all we have. Were sitting above .500 and this team is shooting the ball better than ANY other team in the league. We have the 2nd best FG% and the best 3PT%. Were averaging the 4th most Points per Game. Now that being said, we're allowing our opponents to score a bit too much. We need to step up our defense. We are contesting shots well but it appears our opponents are getting too many possessions, too many attempts. I've discussed this with Coach and we'l get this worked out. We are a solid defensive team. I don't see why we can't improve on these first few weeks.
Now I'll take some questions
ASK AWAY!!!