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Just like every other Dallas mavericks fan each year. We want them to win it all! But unfortunately, they fell 3 games short of getting to the conference finals this year by losing to Denver last night 124-110 and losing the NBA Western conference semifinal series 4-1.

Every Mavs fan knows that it should be 3-2 Denver coming back to Dallas for Game Six. But of course, just like in the Finals against the Heat, the refs completely screwed us!!!

They were just outplayed and outmatched all night long. They just didn't have any answers defensively and were just beat by a better team overall. They left their sweat, guts and blood on the court at the Pepsi Center. They even got physical at the end.

Even though the Mavs fans or I are satisfied with how they're season ended. I still want to give them a lot of credit for what they done this season. There were some obstacles, buy we made them work and moved forward.

I want to give coach Rick Carlisle a big pat on the back for taking us the the second round of the NBA playoffs his first year here. He was given a lot of pressure this year taking over for Avery Johnson. Who led us to the NBA Finals in '06 and franchise record 67-win season right after.

I give congrats to Jason Terry for winning the NBA Sixth Man Award this year. Dirk Nowitzki for giving us another All-Star season and becoming the leader than you are this whole season.

Jason Kidd for a good season doing your job as a point guard for us. Also, I give love to all the role players that stepped up their game this year(Brandon Bass, J.J. Barea, Antoine Wright, James Singleton) and the new addition that really surprised me as the season progressed into the playoffs: Ryan Hollins.

I'm very pleased with their performance this year. Winning 50 games with a new coach and beating the rival San Antonio Spurs in the first round is a very successful season in my opinion. Still becoming a Top 8 NBA team in the Western Conference.

The Mavs have some work to do this offseason. Even though we really don't have any drafts picks this year and way over the salary cap (Thanks Mr. Cuban). The Mavs need not want to make this team better if they want to go deep into the playoffs and back to the team they were in '06-'07.

The Mavs have seven players that are free agents (Kidd, George, Hollins, Bass, Green, Singleton, and Stackhouse). They also have expiring contracts from Howard, Nowitzki, and Dampier in 2010. This is a very huge salary mess and something has to be done here. Here is what I think the Dallas Mavericks should do this offseason.

There's no doubt in my mind that I would love the Mavs to start over from scratch. But from what I seen this year, they're only about 2 good players and a year behind to get back on track.

So I don't see a really big fixer-upper here. I would re-sign Jason Kidd. They want him. He wants security. Can they really let him go and have only Antoine Wright to show for the Devin Harris deal?

He should end in two or three more years here, where he started. He's still a great point guard and still a triple-double waiting to happen. My only concern is his age and how he matches up with the other great point guards in the West like a Chris Paul and Deron Williams.

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