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MyPlainvew.com May 29, 2011 RYAN THURMAN NBA Finals: The Mavs Strike Back Five years ago I was watching the Dallas Mavericks in the youth room of First Baptist Church in Stephenville. My brother-in-law was the youth pastor and we thought, “Hey, it has a giant projector in a big room. Sounds like fun.” In retrospect, it probably was not the best of places for a hotly-tempered 21-year-old to take in the implosion of his favorite team in the NBA fi nals. I think I threw a shoe across the room. Consequently, God punished me these last fi ve years with Mavericks playoff performances that made my heart ache. That fi ve years seems like forever ago now. To put it in perspective, the game, while being on a giant projector, wasn’t even in HD, George W. was still in offi ce and I had long, kind of girly hair. Five years later I can watch sports in 3-D, W. now just makes random appearances at baseball games and is thankfully a footnote in presidential history, and I still have long, kind of girly hair. (Funny story: During my honeymoon, the waitress at Cheesecake Factory in Las Vegas indirectly called me a girl when she fi rst got to the table, then felt bad and gave us really good service.) But it appears I’ve been absolved of my shoe-throwing sins or Mark Cuban made a deal with the devil because the Mavs have had an improbable run this postseason and now are in position to rectify that ugly mess they left those fi ve long seasons ago. Though I must admit, I’m scared. Watching the Mavs blow a championship — with a lot of help from the refs — fi ve years ago is my worst-ever sporting memory. Watching the Giants miraculously end the Patriots’ bid for a perfect season is a close second. It was a life-changing occasion. That’s when I decided my watching the Mavs did more harm than good and why I stopped believing in Neverland. Seriously, I was less upset when I found out Justin Bieber was dating Selena Gomez. The worst part was having to watch Dirk Nowitzki not get a championship. The man deserved it and still does. After watching the Mavs be a playoff punching bag for the last fi ve seasons, I wasn’t exactly pumped for another early postseason exit. When the Mavs blew a 23-point lead to Portland in Game 4, I offi cially resigned myself to not caring because I knew the end was coming and I don’t like to cry in front of people. But then Dirk tapped some bottled up source of inner strength and went all Larry Bird on everyone. Before the season began I thought this would be the Mavs’ last year of winning 50-plus games and being a contender because Dirk will be 33 at the end of the season, which is like 98 in dog years and like 152 in basketball years (just ask Kobe). And let’s face it, his best teammate was either Caron Butler (now injured), Jason Terry or Jason Kidd. With superstar Big Threes becoming the new norm, there was no way a lanky sharpshooter was going to lead a teamful of NBA geriatrics to prominence without at least one other in-his-prime Hall of Famer. But what do I know? If I didn’t know better, I would think Dirk is 26 and just hitting his stride. Every year I wait for him to drop off and the Mavs’ record to respond accordingly. It still hasn’t happened, and when he’s playing like this you wonder if he’ll be scoring like crazy until he’s 40. Seriously, how do you stop a falling down, one-leg, 25-foot jump shot from at least 8 feet in the air? Dirk reminds me of all the annoying kids you played against in junior high who had horrible-looking shots, but MAVS, Page 9B NO DJOKE Djokovic extends winning streak to 42 matches Page 2B SUNDAY B WE’RE ON FACEBOOK Get scores, read stories or get the sports department’s thoughts facebook.com Herald SPORTS STRONG FINISH Loppnow earns all-tourney honors Page 2B Former Bulldog to be inducted into Texas A&M HOF By RYAN BLAKE THURMAN Herald Sports Editor R onnie Peret has an interesting method of answering questions. For example, in 1963 Peret attended band camp at West Texas State in Canyon (now West Texas A&M) to brush PERET up on his drum major skills for his upcoming job of being assistant drum major in the Plainview High School Powerhouse of the Plains marching band. By WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY MARION, Ind. — The Wayland Baptist men fi nished on the podium for the second straight year at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The Pioneers fi nished in fourth place with 42 points as the 60th annual Men’s and 31st annual Women’s Championship, which was hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University, wrapped up Saturday evening. Shorter College of Georgia won the men’s title with 66 points, followed by Doane University with 59. Oklahoma Baptist scored six more points than Wayland to fi nish third. On the women’s side, Being 6 feet, 8 inches tall, he was the star attraction at the camp fi lled with tiny twirlers and other regular-sized humans. Eventually, the obvious question of how tall Peret’s parents came up, and, as Peret recalls it, he launched into a nicelyprepared joke. He told his inquisitor that his dad was a rather normal 6-feet tall, and his mother 5-4 before delivering his version of the now cliche punch line, “But we had a 6-11 milk man.” Pleased with his efforts, Peret said he returned home and told his mother about the joke. Much to his chagrin, his straight-faced Wayland tallied 23 points and fi nished 13th. Concordia University of Oregon took ook the women women’s s team championship hip with 86 points. Oklahoma Baptist was second with 69 1/2. Three relay teams produced the majority of points for the Pioneer men. On Friday, the 4x800-meter team captured d the national championship, edging out McKendree University with a time of 7 minutes, 33.37 seconds. It was the best time of the year by the foursome of Hildon Boen, mother informed him his father was her milk man back in the day. She explained to her slightlyalarmed son that because of his father’s diabetes he was unable to serve in World War II, so the only job he could fi nd was a milk route. Her house happened to have been on his route. So, when asked how he felt about the news that 42 years after he wrapped up his basketball career at Texas A&M University he would be inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame, it was no surprise that a story preceded his sincere and earnest appreciation. Apparently, one of Peret’s Mario Scott, Victor Lemay and Jarrod Morris and the fi rst time tim Wayland has w3 won the title in the 3,200-meter event. Boen and Morris just completed their second seasons, while Scott and Lemay wrapped up their Wayland W careers with a championship plaqu plaque. In the fi nal event of the national mmeet, which was delayed three hours Saturday evening because of thunderstorms, the Pioneer 4x400-meter relay team scored six points with a third-place fi nish. Jerry-Lee former A&M teammates, Mike Heitmann, had been selected to the Aggie hall of fame and Peret couldn’t understand why he wasn’t being considered for that honor. “He was qualifi ed, a great student and great representative of Texas A&M,” Peret said, “but he didn’t have the honors I did.” Those honors included two all-Southwest Conference selections and a Coach and Athlete magazine all-American award for his senior season. Not to mention being drafted in the 11th round by the Los Angeles Lakers. Veteran Mavs bonded by pursuit of their 1st title By JAIME ARON AP Sports Writer DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd are at the point in their careers where the only thing they care about is winning a championship. Luckily for them, their teammates feel the same way. From Shawn Marion to Jason Terry, Tyson Chandler to Brendan Haywood, Peja Stojakovic to DeShawn Stevenson, the Dallas Mavericks are a collection of guys who’ve played at least 10 seasons and made tens of millions of dollars without winning a title. Their willingness to accept whatever playing time and other individual stats they pile up is a major reason Dallas is in the NBA fi nals. “This is a bunch of veterans who want to play and are unselfi sh,” Nowitzki said. “I think that’s what makes this group special, I mean, everybody sacrifi cing for each other and we just want to win. It’s been fun to play with these guys all season long, so hopefully we can have a great series.” The fi nals are an interesting clash in teambuilding formulas. The Miami Heat have three main stars — Dwyane Wade, and the pals he lured last summer, LeBron James and Chris Bosh — plus the best role players they could afford with the remaining room under the salary cap. Dallas was built to be deep and versatile. The Mavs knew Nowitzki would be the main option every night, with Kidd guiding the offense, but the No. 2 scorer and other PERET, Page 2B Paul Moseley/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MC Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd and Jason Terry are three of several veterans on the Dallas Mavericks who are looking to win their fi rst NBA championship. roles would depend on matchups or who had the hot hand. That kind of uncertainty is unusual for playoff teams. Guys like knowing what to expect. That’s why it was a struggle making it work at times last year, and why it’s so important everyone has completely bought into the team concept this year. “It’s been an ebb-and-fl ow type of thing,” coach Rick Carlisle said. “In the playoffs, we’ve gotten some traction. But again, we’re never quite sure who are going to be our top three or four scorers. And often times we’ve going to need six guys scoring seven or more points.” It wasn’t always easy, even for the guys who dealt with Carlisle’s ever-changing DALLAS, Page 8B Pioneers fail to repeat as national champs, fi nish in 4th place Davis, Lorenzo Dolphus, Andre Hamilton and Caleb McLean ran the 1,600-meter race in a time of 3:09.94. Sooner Athletic Conference rivals Oklahoma City (3:08.38) and Oklahoma Baptist (3:09.17) placed fi rst and second in the event. Earlier Saturday, the 4x100 relay team also produced six points. Myran Roundtree, Davis, Lee Prevost and McLean combined to run a 40.48 to place third behind Doane (39.92) and Shorter (40.05). The 4x100 team of Shykilia Sheppard, Leandria Lee, Bianca Grant and Natasha Gay was the highest point producer of WBU, Page 8B
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