"Free Gary Neal"

Now that I have lived in Dallas for over a year now I have been forced to get accustom with the sports fan base of the Mavs. Since being from the Sliver and Black city it's difficult to put up with some of these ignorant non sense talking maverick fans that believe that "this is their year" even though "their year" has been going on for the last 5. I always find it comical that when I mention the 4 rings we got they still have some stupid comeback line that never really goes anywhere much like a Charlie Sheen slam. FYI, if you ever walk into the AAC you will notice hanging in the rafters by the hockey banners and one or two bball division titles that they have an All Star weekend participation banner from last yr. 

Well maybe someone should let them in on the secret.... every team will host the all-star game eventually and by the way the game wasn't even held at the AAC. Jerry should proudly hang that up in his dome next to his attendance record for a Super Bowl, oh wait that didn't happen, and you counted the people who bought tickets to stand outside the dome and watch it on a TV. Anyways im getting off subject of what I really want to talk about. The ticket up here is awesome and I actually do enjoy listening to them dissect the mavs and cowboys along with all the made up voices of famous athletes (Fake Jerry Jones). But, the one subject that was beaten over and over like a Dallas Police arrest was "Free Roddy Beaubois" throughout last yrs. playoffs. This was relating to always benching this guy in crucial time during Mavs games though when he was in the game he did great. Well im taking this phrase and rewording it..... "Free Gary Neal".


This is not soo much because Neal doesn't play, but because he is on the bench during crunch time while slapdick Richard Jefferson plays in-front of him and contributes nothing at the end of games much like the other first 44 mins. It's kind of sad to watch the decline of a once all-star to basically a non reliable roll player on the most unselfish team in the NBA and he still can't get his. The guy is a disease much like an STD, and unfortunately we can't get enough valtrex to make him go away. You can go back this whole season and watch the last 4 mins. of any game and you wouldn't be able to tell where he made a big shot that meant something. The guy has no confidence in anything he does on the court or off picture speaks for itself...... 

For a while I believed that Neal should be inserted in the starting lineup over RJ, but realized if for some rare occurrence Jefferson hits his first couple shots he can be valuable for a period of time, but he used most of those good games up in the first 10 of the season. For a short period of time made Spurs fans believe he had found his broke jump shot and wasn't a pussy anymore to drive to the basket where he used to do damage. Now spurs fans get the guy who currently has lost his confidence again and doesn't play D on the other end of the court to do anything for us other than force us to play 4 on 6 when he's on the court. I do not exaggerate on how bad he hurts the team on their stretch run heading into the playoffs. Now you have Gary Neal a 26 yr. old rookie who when he has the ball wants to score every time he has an opportunity and if you follow the team closely you know when the ball leaves his hands you know its going in most the time. Bottom line Neal wants to be out there and he averages half the mins. Jefferson does and consistently outscores, rebounds and doesn't have as many turnovers as Mr. RJ. Hopefully Pop is only messing with our emotions right now and when the marbles are on the line we won't see this guy come the last 6 to 7 mins. of any game. So play the real shooter, the guy who tries on defense and a guy who won't be seen in a fedora anywhere.


(the most worthless POS spurs player that we have overpaid, right up there with Matt Bonner. We even renegotiated with him last summer for less money and still overpaid.) 


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