Interview: Skip Sauer

Yglesias’ analysis, while interesting, is inconclusive at best. Dirk is famous for working hard on different facets of his game in the offseason (oftentimes with a former coach in Germany), so it is tough to say that he wouldn’t have developed a post-up game had Nash stayed.

Further, coach Johnson played on a team with two excellent post players (David Robinson and Tim Duncan), a team that had a philosophy of slowing the game down and using post play. It is difficult to say he wouldn’t have used this method even if Nash had remained a Maverick. I think the Mavericks would much rather have Steve Nash then Erick Dampier right now.