The Dallas Mavericks are considered a typical Western Conference bubble team.
They play flashy, brilliant, and dazzling offensive basketball but can never win in crucial games.
Just like players who have empty stats but can't win championships, they can't stand up to scrutiny.
After this game, Shaquille O'Neal completely understood what Gary Payton said. In fact, the Glove's theory applies to Shaq perfectly.
His biggest mistake, wasn't it believing he could go against Roger?
If he had stayed in Orlando with Roger, he wouldn't have ended up so down and out.
Yes, maybe he would have become, like the Skyhook in the '80s, a foil to the Magic.
But that's still better than becoming Patrick Ewing.
Shaquille O'Neal is like someone who's in the passenger seat of a Ferrari but insists on getting out to drive an old Buick himself.
Only when he was in the Ferrari's passenger seat, he thought he was the one controlling the wheel.
