Why the Mavericks Deserve to Win the 2011 NBA Title

The Dallas Mavericks are your 2011 NBA champions. This is why they are the champs. They played defense. They know defense wins championships, not offense. They had Rick Carlisle. They had Dirk Nowitzki. They had a supporting cast of a group of players that were dedicated to winning basketball games. Most of all, they have a tough attitude towards winning and a very low appetite on losing ball games. The Dallas Mavericks are a quote unquote "tough" team. They don't give up on a basketball play. The Miami Heat did. Several basketball plays in a row, you would watch the Miami Heat destroy themselves playing together in the court together on defense and offense. The Mavericks decided that they want to toughen themselves up on every single offensive and defensive possession together one of their five players were there on the court. There is automatically no sense of the Miami Heat playing team basketball, it was simply 3-on-5. Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, and Lebron James scored the points for the offensive trip, Mario Chalmers, and Udonis Haslem did some of the heavy lifting, but it was ultimately up to Bosh, Wade, and James to carry the Miami Heat to their second NBA title if they were to win it. When Lebron James successfully defend Jason Terry in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, Terry said to his teammates, "Let's see if he can do it for seven games." That was a tough statement. The Mavericks were very tough in their decision to have Lebron James defend all of their perimeter shooters. They did not let their guard down. The Mavs were "tough" all over the entire NBA Finals. From Dirk Nowitzki to the twelfth player down on the bench, they were tough for six games. The Dallas Mavericks are an ultimate team to be reckoned with. You deal with Dirk Nowitzki's very accurate jump shot, you deal with Jason Terry's jump shot, you deal with J.J. Barea's penetration, and you also deal with veteran sharp shooter Peja Stojakovic's jump shot as well. I think the Mavs are a title contender for next season. I wanted the Miami Heat to win, emotionally. I wanted the Big Three of Miami to seize their first title, because of their parade last summer when Lebron James announced they were to win 7,8,9 NBA titles. I can tell you why the Heat lost. Lebron James didn't play up to the standards he was supposed to play. He did not defend the perimeter shooters in Game 3 for the rest of the series in Games 4, 5, and 6. The Big Three did not have help from the Miami bench to help them win ball games. It was simply "hero" ball. You don't win with "hero" ball. You win with teamwork and execution on offense. You will win ball games simply on defense. The Miami Heat did none of the above. The Mavericks won the NBA Finals, like Charles Barkley said, I think, I'm not sure it was him, "hand down man down."