Hour 2: Dirk Nowitzki And Stump The Meech
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Mike Ryan has fled the studio the way that Amin once fled the court when Tim Duncan roared after making a game-winning shot. Mike Ryan has left because he's seen this face. He's seen this name. It's a 14-time NBA All-Star, MVP, Finals MVP, NBA champion. And when I look at him on behalf of Miami, I think Izzy will vouch for me on this. It is... The highest compliment you can give in sports, which is, I do not dislike this man, even though he broke my heart. I must respect it. His excellence was such, I saw what those Miami teams became, and he slayed them, not by himself, but it damn sure looked like it was by himself, with him and J.J. Baret on his back like a spider monkey, like a howler monkey, carrying them and beating Dwayne.
100%.
So thank you, Dirk. Thank you, Dirk. No, but you know that that's what you did to Miami that year. Dirk, people were questioning you.
Yes, that's true. But, you know, after 2006, I had to come back and do something, right? That was a tough year where, you know, we were up 2-0 on you guys. And we were in a great position to win it all. And there's just that whole week, you know, back in the days, it was still the 2-3-2. And that whole week in Miami where we lost three straight was like a week from hell. So that'll never... Never let me down, but I'm glad we got back in 2011 and had the chance to redeem ourselves.
I'd be curious, Dirk, given how that went in 2006. Like, I know a lot of people in retrospect will say, ah, we were the better team. But you'd have a pretty good argument if you thought those three games, Avery Johnson never stopped doubling Shaq. Like, if some things had changed there, it felt like Dallas was the better team. Would you ever say that, having lost?
I mean, I don't know. We were up 2-0 and we were up, what, over 10 points in the third game with five, six minutes left. So, I mean, we made a pretty good case over the almost three games that we were the better team. But, you know, you can never not close and say you were the better team. Now, you can say maybe... in a series of one game where you lose, you can say we were a better team, but you can't say that in a seven game series, that's the better team usually wins. So I can't sit here and say we were the better team. I think we definitely had our chances, but once i think our experience wasn't quite there yet once we once we lost game three they came back and four was a complete blowout and then it was so mental i mean you guys were in our heads we switched hotels uh i mean it was that whole week uh like i mentioned earlier was just uh it was just one of the toughest weeks i've ever been a part of in the nba so that's that was a week to forget and then we came home the down three two still have two home games all we had to do was
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