Heard It Through the Weekend Grapevine 12-7 and 12-8-09
Posted by Rob Mahoney on February 8, 2009 under The Grapevine | 
- Chad Ford investigates ways to solve the nice little abomination they have going in Phoenix, and among the myriad of solutions he offers is a Kidd-Shaq swap. The idea hinges primarily on Jason Terry being able to play the point and well, and well, that doesn’t seem like much of an option right now.
- Tim MacMahon with a friendly reminder that Dirk is clutchy-clutch-clutch. He scored 14 points in overtime, after learning that the team’s second best player would be missing some time.
- Mavs Moneyball has the postgame transcripts from the Bulls game. Praise for Kidd, lament for Terry, awe at Dirk’s finish, and high hopes for Barea.
- Eddie Sefko of The Dallas Morning News sums up the Maverick tendencies nicely prior to the win in Chicago: “As many steps as they take upward, they never seem to go anywhere. They can attribute it directly to their desire defensively, or lack of it.”
- Steve Nash reminisces a bit about life with Dirk, some what ifs, and of course some relatively less imporant blurbs on the Suns, getting older, and the like. On second-guessing his departure fromDallas, from Marc Stein’s Weekend Dime: “I think it would have been great. I know it would have been great, but how much time can you spend looking back? We’ve already played two-thirds of the time [apart] that we played together.”
- Eddie Sefko calls for Kidd to step up in Terry’s absence.