Dirk Nowitzki
Dirk Nowitzki
Dirk Werner Nowitzkiis a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association. An alumnus of Röntgen Gymnasium and the DJK Würzburg basketball club, Nowitzki was chosen as the ninth pick in the 1998 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks and immediately traded to the Mavericks, where he has played since. Listed at 7 ft 0 in, Nowitzki is considered one of the greatest power forwards in basketball history...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth19 June 1978
CountryGermany
We made a lot of mistakes in the last couple of minutes. Hopefully, we'll learn from them.
We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.
We never make excuses with injures. We would love to have Josh out there. Same with Devin. (But) we should have won the game with the guys that we had.
Right now the best part of my game is my defense. I'm always guarding players who are bigger and stronger so I try to use my quickness.
Getting Josh back really helps us on both ends of the floor. We missed his perimeter defense and on offense he's just so relentless getting to the basket. He's so good at slashing in there. He set the tone for us tonight.
When he picks off an offensive rebound for us and gets it out, we can set up again and get another chance to score. And it makes the other team continue to work that much harder on defense.
He's been playing phenomenal since the All-Star break. His turnaround (jumper) is money.
I almost blocked it in. That would have been a heartbreaker.
We have to find our sense of urgency a little bit earlier. We gave up almost 70 in the first half. It looked like we just went through the motions.
We were up five and I had the rebound. I don't know what I was thinking. I tried to dribble the ball out of the pack. Then they got a three-point play. Everything kind of went wrong, that could have gone wrong in that last minute.
Winning 60 is a special season. Unfortunately, we've won 60 twice and been the fourth seed twice.
I'm very happy that Holger has been released that's very important to me, especially in regard to preparing for the European championships. I will contact Holger as soon as possible, then we will see what happens.
If there's an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.
Their zone was really effective, I thought, in the third quarter. They continued it in the fourth and we finally started making some. I got open a couple times and made some big shots.