Put Dirk at SF

They Mavericks are going to need to find a way to keep Devean George. In a shallow free agent market he’s going to command some respect. For one, he’s a player that can come in and be a starter for a lot of teams, although a team that could have a player like that coming off the bench at small forward, like the Mavs, would be a championship-caliber team. It’s useless to even talk about Gerald Green until he proves he’s an NBA player and it would be nice for the Mavericks to resign Tyronn Lue to give them a true point guard to back up Jason Kidd. Kidd is 35 and some projections have had him as the starting point guard on the Olympic team. There is already a lot of wear on Kidd and now he’s going to be going through an extended summer with the Olympic team. Dallas has tried to use Jason Terry at the point in the past, but he’s more of a scorer in the mold of Chicago’s Ben Gordon. Lue will come in and run the offense more like Kidd would. My ideal lineup for the Mavs right now would be Kidd at the point with Josh Howard at the 2. Dirk at small forward with Dampier and Bass down low. Dirk at small forward. That’s the ticket -- as long as Dallas can put enforcers in there at the four and five spots.