5 Reasons the 2011 Mavericks made the greatest playoff run of all time 

Indeed.

Emmanuel Ontiveros 2014 Spurs?

VIgilant_Turtle, they have a big 3

Emmanuel Ontiveros what big 3? they were all out of their primes the youngest of them was tony Parker averaging as many minutes as his age. Not even taking into account the amount of mileage tony has on him due to playing in the NBA and French national team for years. What kind of a big 3 is that when kawhi Leonard and Boris Diaz average more minutes than tony Parker and Manu Ginobilli in the playoffs respectably.

VIgilant_Turtle, dumbass the Spurs has 2 set of big 3. You are thinking of the grandpa big 3.

Technically the organisation that drafted him was Milwaukee though ;)

@@sebw89 you can say the same about KOBE and the hornets But who really gives a flying FU@#

mavs suck!

mavs suck!

idiot

fuck u haters

mavs never get the respect we deserve

It Was

still is

As a Boston fan it was amazing watching them lit up the Lakers with all those 3 pointers...

we never forgot it

im a lakers fan living in dallas, and it was amazing for the dallas fans! this playoff run was definitely underrated

Were they hated more than the current Gsw?

+Biased? Not in the slightest! Yeah

Mainly because of them showing off the whole preseason.."not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6 titles"..lebrons voice

BobbyDick22785 I don't thing thats the reason. Lebron was speaking in front of Miami fans not the entire bball fans of the world, what would you expect him to say to them, like "we will try our chances against Boston"?

well thats how its been since the 2000s, if lebron doesnt win, its him choking automatically. nobody gives credit to the mavs (he did choke there but the macs also played smart D), spurs or gsw

I'd say him & Wade basically cancelled each other out in that series, and the difference was just that Lebron chocked while the Mavs' supporting cast members played to near the peaks of their abilities. Heat were more top-heavy, while Mavs were the more complete team, but in all honesty, if the Heat don't choke away the big Game 2 lead in the 2nd half, that series was headed for a sweep. Mavs deserve credit for being resilient, disciplined, unselfish, and finishing games strong towards the end of the year in 11'. But that really was one of the least likely champions of all-time, doing it w/ an aging squad, w/ only 1 bonafide superstar. The 94' Rockets did it w/ only one bonafide superstar, but the teams they were facing in the playoffs that year were a tad less top-heavy, they had a lights-out defense (11' Mavs didn't), and their supporting cast was a bit younger. Also, Olajuwon's top-15 all-time, Nowitzki's top-30. Ironically, both teams got help w/ the #8 seeds knocking off the 1-seeds in the playoffs. Nuggets upsetting the Super Sonics in 94', and Grizzlies over the Spurs in 11'. I don't think the 94' Rockets would've fared well against the trapping Sonics, or 11' Mavs against the well-oiled Spurs. 04' Pistons had no bonafide superstars, so they may have been a tad more unlikely than 11' Mavs, despite their lights-out defense. 06' Heat, ironically the team that beat a similar Pistons team to the 04' version, and similar Mavs team to the 11' version, though lost to the Mavs in 11', I felt were a bit of a surprise w/ an old Shaq, Payton, Mourning & Walker, and no home court advantage in the final two rounds. I'd still say the 06' Heat were just slightly less of a surprise than the 11' Mavs, since they did have two bonafide superstars (Shaq was still a contender for just that one last final season, though no longer an MVP candidate), they won only 52 games, but their physical style on both ends of the floor was favorable for the playoffs, Pat Riley was their coach, though it ultimately took Wade being at his absolute apex + favorable officiating to barely squeak by the 64-win Pistons, and especially the 60-win Mavs in the Finals. 95' Rockets had to be the most unlikely, cause they had no home court advantage in any round.

Excuses. Better team won. Mavs were dominant all season and their 2nd best scorer missed whole playoffs. They were ending every hot team streaks. Only reason they weren't #1 seed was cause Dirk/caron got injured . It was never that close.

nope...miami was better..the heat had no haslem or miller most of the year..they were a 70 win team in disguise that dominated the east playoffs...the mavs got lucky bron didnt show up...bosh haslem rio and wade did so it was close...@@jjoworld

@@razkable Better team won championship. That's why heat got beat. Heat even went up 2 -1 in series after losing that second game, And and still lost . I dnt even think Miami would of beaten La if they made it to finals.

@@razkable dont forget east was weak compared to west. And Yea well defense will do that to somebody like Bron. You didnt see 06 wade there neither lol

+Bob Carter how about when Van Gundy said that Ibaka should name his first son Dirk lmao

Van Gundy is a total idiot. lol

even bosh said he was, actually.

frankmaliano you know he had 4 former all stars on the mavs

Ngary 5 damn 4 former all stars Wild. that’s almost like saying okc had 3 future mvps on their team at once (if harden wins this year)

Heyyy 😂😂😂

lets go dallas!!!

Fuck Dallas

Didn't know MTV was a mavs fan

Mavsfanforlife!

not that much

Vol deMort not really lol, choked in his mvp season against the 8th warriors and was smoked by dwade in 06

Houndz1100 He used all those horrific events to beat one of the greatest teams of all time in 2011.

OVO VO He only had clutch moments in 2011, overall his performance was lackluster. If it were not for the Heat's choking ability, he'd be ringless lol

Houndz1100 THE HEAT DIDN'T CHOKE, THEY JUST LOST- mavs fan

I could`ve mentioned him in the part about the team I just kept it brief.

THE JEEEEEEEET!!

The Pride of Puerto Rico. I love Barea so much.

Locked down King James

Exactly

the 06 finals wasn't FIXED shut the fuck up you fucking excuse maker

Go check how many times Wade went to the line, look at the fouls that were called, And think about this, At this time Mark Cuban had a reputation of talking shit about David Stern and the league. You really think stern was gonna let us win?

The Heat might have won anyway, but those Finals were definitely fixed.

SalaCommander2232 we was up 2-0, we started losing when Wade started getting more free throws

LOL, you have a 12 point lead with 6 minutes to go in game 3. You lost that game which gave the Heat momentum. And then Wade said enough is enough and took over the rest of that series. The Mavs have no one to blame but themselves. They just got beat by a single man on a mission.

Glad you enjoyed

you are the type of fan that makes the nba beautiful. about 35 years... wow.

Robert D. Gordon Miami fan. You were the better team that year. You earned it.

As a heat fan whose had many battles with tyson Chandler I can say he was the reason the mavs won....up to then Chandler had won 10 of 16 games vs miami in the playoffs including 4 out of 5 in Miami on the road and ended 2 heat title seasons in a row and was 8-2 in 10 games vs us in 10 and 6-2 in his last 8 coming in.....he was intimidating as fuk...LeBron wade and bosh by game 4 wanted no part of that...Tyson Chandler as the underdog 3 times mind you has won 11 out of 21 meetings with miami in 4 different series...twice as miami was a defending champion...he has a winong record vs shaq wade lebron bosh...that's impressive...now it helps he had Dirk an s Ben Wallace with him up front but still

looking back they went through albeit a young durant harden and westbrook 3 future mvps d wade leBron and bosh a trio of 11 time all stars 2 finals mvps and the hall of fame trio of kobe gasol and phil jackson as well as the trio of roy aldridge batum and went 10-1 between game 5 of the first round and game 1 of the finals and only lost 3 times combined to kobe Durant westbrook wade bosh ibaka harden gasol odom bynum phil erik brookes potentially 11 hall of famers ...wow it was underrated and the closest the nba has come to an underdog winning since the 70's really albeit the 95 rockets were known as an underdog even with clyde and hakeem two guys who can both make the claim to be top 4 all time at their position as well as the rockets being the defending champs ...the 75 warriors 77 blazers 2011 mavs are the only 3 teams in my opinion that were true underdog teams that won the title when many didn't expect it....I mean the 79 sonics didn't have a 25 ppg guy but they went to a game 7 the year before and should of won back to back and had a hall of fame player and coach in lenny wilkins and 3 hall of fame players for them in dj sikma and so they don't count and the 78 bullets weren't that good in the season they won it all but with star bobby dandridge and hall of famers wes unseld and scorining machine elvin hayes while losing 38 games as well as the unexpected 94 rockets but they had the 1 seed with 58 wins out and west and the mvp in hakeem a

he missed 4 free throws in the last 3 rounds combined lol 45-46 in the Finals 59-61 in the WCF 15-16 in the 2nd round 119-123 over the last 3 rounds, 96.7%

WhateverReally so in 15 games (4-0, 4-1, 4-2) he shot 123 Free Throws? That shit sounds rigged 😂 I forgot just how many free throws he shot in those playoffs.

That's just 8.3 free throws per game. AKA what LeBron averages for his career ... So is every LeBron James game rigged ? LeBron shot 199 free throws in 14 games in 2009 playoffs btw

WhateverReally chill dude, not hating on dirk what so ever, just an observation. Also, Lebron drives to the rim a LOT more especially in his younger days in Cleveland. Dirk tends to shoot mid-range to 3-p shots more than Lebron as well.

WhateverReally and really the number go up to about 10.3 FTA per game if you just want to count the last 2 rounds of the playoffs

MFFL Go Mavs! 🏀

LET'S GO MAVS!!!!

Real shit right there

Blackwatch I'm not a mavs fan but I respect that

They proved me wrong alright. I believed they were gonna be a playoff team last season, they eventually got swept. They literally proved me wrong.

yeah seeing dirk marion kidd terry peja haywood butler chandler barea all get their redemption was nice...a bunch of vets I watched that deserved a ring...they were a team...

Sup Dom

Do a video on sure the NBA change the logo

who is the best PF Garnett, Dirk, Duncan

It's I've not I`ve lol

Can't believe someone made a video for his. I been saying the same shit. You know your basketball.

It was, but they didn`t play the Spurs that year.

@@Dom2k16 well the spurs got destroyed by the 8 seed grit n grind grizzlies

if okc had managed to beat the heat in 2012 that run would of been special....mavs lakers spurs heat....think about that...

Lmao basically

holy shit, your channels lit dude, keep it up your going to become big

Your profile picture describes what your face was like when you saw his comment

I know

NBA Insider been subbed for a year, but you haven't posted in 2 months. What happened

Yes, yes I did lol

Dom2k beautiful video bro

Same

Best fans in the Fucking world/ 2nd placed team above BVB right now mate

alaaf mah brotha

Whooo Bundesliga in general!!!!

All the Germans here lmao..just because Trump is German

forgot lebron was gonna catch this year huh lmaooo

He's a top 3 pf of all time for sure idk about top 10 players ever,prolly top 15

There were way more pressing issues that caused that lockout, that lockout was looming far before the finals happened.

Your right, BUT the league didn't not want the Dallas Mavericks to win that title and you know that. But it was good seeing Dirk win a title. I was really happy to see Jason Kidd win one finally. Those New Jersey Nets teams he led couldn't beat the Lakers or the Spurs the year after.

Lawrence Andrews I don`t think it mattered to them, once the finals started and Miami was there thats good enough

Who knows?! It's all David Sterns fault anyway. lol

Lawrence Andrews the CBA was up and had to be renegotiated. Had nothing to do with Dallas, Miami, or any other team frankly.

Indeed

Greatest single handed playoff performance by a bonafide legend!

Hell nah LeBron 2016 NBA finals the best underdog story ever reason why LBJ is GOAT

Terry is a bit higher just for outplaying LeBron

good point

You can say that about Larry Bird.

Hakeem's arsenal of post moves was overwhelming. shimmies, shakes, up and unders, spin left, spin right, fakes, hooks, dunks and a poetic fade away. Dirk relied mostly on one post move. It was a virtually unstoppable move, but i dont think their offensive skill sets are comparable. Allen for most of his career had a way more diverse skill set as well. I would say that Dirk shared just one very specific skill from each of those players: Hakeem's fade and Ray's 3 point shooting, which are amazing skills to have.

dirk pre 2011 and post it was soft..he had 1 legit run where he toughend up but lets not overrate him in playoff series..he lost more than he won...11-14 overall..thats not good....he was guardable and not a great passer and a terrible defender

Visnry Mndst mike?

Jordan and Kobe hold that tilte.

He has the best one cause he damn 7 ft tall, there’s no way you got enough time to bridge that gap to block that shit 😂

Thanks man

good video though, i really enjoyed reminiscing about this

Hakeem also won as the only all star on his team

Murat Topalli I completely forgot about that year! I thought Clyde Drexler was an all star in '95! thanks for the reminder =P

That would be great, thanks man

Me too. My heart beats for that team! :)

Saaaame.

Blackwatch I always say that line too. :) Mavs fan since 2003! 🐎🐎🐎

TurtleGaming41 me to

Thanks man I will

Haha no problem

I'm a mavs fan too. Hard times right now. Let's get that#1 pick!

I agree, he's on that list.

Thanks man

Wow... i experienced it the same way, just like you described it. That the same reason i'm a proud Mavs fan now! Thanks, man. I thought i was the only one. :)

brandon tan me to man I agree with you

Josiah Fautanu totally agree - also a spurs fan 🤙🏼

the way marion chandler terry kidd barea get forgotten is hard to look at objectively

Rahaleo500 Even though in the comment of this video the opposite of the concept (a very right one, we didn't see a top tier squad job win since 04' Pistons) you mentioned passed, so Dirk carrying in 11' Mavs lol.

No, he should have hit that free throw to tie game 3 in 2006. A 90 percent free throw shooter that could not overcome the pressure. Be grateful for 2011. He was unstoppable

No he shouldn't be they lost. I'm one of the biggest mavs and Dirk fans but they didn't win. If they did they may not of won the 2011 championship. Can't get butthurt about the past.

Def!! Was a complete travesty. Up 2-0 then For the complete six game series, Wade attempted 97 free throws! Yes, that’s three less than 100. LMFAO what a joke, DIRK DIRK DIRK!!

woulda coulda shoulda...shouldn't have choked in 2003 2005 2006 or 2007..dude just needed to make 2 fts in game 3 and they win...smdh...hes a choker

Time flies

You just got a Sub bro congrats and thank u

The WHOLE season they just kept coming Back & BACK & BACK...I was like OMG we can do it!!!! I was & still with ALL my Texas Teams( EXCEPT 🏈)

Much respect

that's true also so I'll leave it as a tie because the mavs swept the lakers but then everyone forgets the pistons took the spurs to a game 7 the next year that's how good they were.

That Nets team wasn't that great. And the East was much weaker back then.

Rj Macready 1 and 2 easily...but that Piston defense was something else

Rj Macready the mavs beat the lakers, and heat

Pacers weren’t stacked after 3 of their stars were sacked the whole year after your dogshit fans threw beer at Ron Artest....

Roy scared the hell out of me that series. He had the talent to take over games; he took a game from us, bad knees just held him back.

Tyson Chandler, Jason The Jet Terry, Shawn Marion and Jason Kidd too, but apparently they all got carried lol

@@dusk6159 they did got carried

@@allenxavier6073 and deshawn Stevenson as well

Appreciate it man

Bailey Wonz lakers were trying to kill JJ, they were so agitated lol

RaSy Wash lol I remember watching Andrew bynum bitch ass hard foul jj

also Pedja Stojaković!

Barea never got the credit he deserved for that.. Still underrated. Jason Terry was sick as well

Bailey Won 3 pt GOD? He may have been good at hitting them but he is no God st anything

Kevin Garnett over Dirk , and Karl Malone , then Dirk 4th

Dirk over Kg everyday, and did just say Karl Malone? lol dirk stayed with the mavericks his whole career Kg had to join ray allen and pierce to win a championship, Ima say it again dirk is tied with duncan for the Goat PF

Doesn't matter who leaves and stays with a team , it's stats and MVPS and all star appearances , which KG has over Dirk

well they're tied in MVP's, and Kg never got to the finals by himself dirk did it twice and another thing has dirk is way better than kg in the playoffs when it really matters

dirk is top 10 all time leading scorer him and duncan r poster boys for longevity and changing the status quo of previously overlooked position power forwards

Same

i remember this dude from my highschool class asked me who i thought would win in the first round that year. And i told him dallas.. after dallas won he came up to me was like "damn you do kno ball"

I remember thinking portland will beat dallas in the first round that year. Man i was fucking wrong on that one. Dirk was simply heroic that playoffs

Indeed

Marion owned Kobe...he took him out in 2007 2006 and 2011...after going down 1-3 to Kobe in 06 Marion went 11-1 vs Kobe in his next 12 playoff games over 3 series beating him 4-1 and 4-0 ...

Exactly people forget they shut down LeBron not that LeBron choked on his own they did something that no NBA team has done

That's what happens when the whole expects u to win,but u lose the thing that will remembered most is the people that choked like this years finals for instance

Devin Baker right. They rattled him, and rick carlisle doesn't get enough credit either. Hes one of the best coaches in the NBA.

Steph Curry The G.O.A.T true true. I understand it, but its like people do not give enough credit to the opposing team sometimes.

Lebron James Then Dirk proved why he's a top 5 PF of all-time by showing up in the finals but really the whole team played their asses off