What does Dirk have to do

Dirk has to ask Cuban to get a leader in the metroplex. Dirk is like Robin with no Batman. Dirk is not the type of player to take control of a game. He would rather take orders instead of give them. You have to put the confidence in your team if they don't have it which they didn't against the Hornets. I am sick and tired of the Mav fans steadily getting behind him and defending him when the team bows out of the playoffs early. Yeah Dirk scores about 26 points, but they don't mean as much because they don't come at the crucial part of the game. This is the problem, No other team has the best shooter on the team as the number one option. (If they do they aren't any good anyway) Other teams has the BEST playmaker as the number one option. Dirk is not that. Josh can create his own shot, and if he doesn't he will create a shot for someone else. Having Dirk as the number one option causes a problem because in the 4th quarter when there are about 5 minutes to go other teams throw out the playbook and goes to their playmaker not the best shooter. Since Dirk can't create that well they have to keep calling plays to get him open. That is too easy for teams to stop when they can predict what going to happen because they saw this play in the 2nd and 3rd quarter.

I think this postseason proved that Josh can't create his own shot or get the best shot to someone else.

Dirk does need to be surrounded by other great talent, but also, it needs to be talent playing in their prime. People keep saying Dirk chokes, but before these two post seasons, he got out of the first round, what, five years in a row? That's not always choking. He was surrounded by talent in its prime though. JET and Stack are passed their prime, Harris hadn't hit it yet, and that helped cause last seasons first round loss as much as Dirk getting completely swarmed. This year, they traded for Kidd who is WAY past his prime and Josh turned into the Most Disappearing Player.

Also, you have to give the Hornets credit. They are playing as a true team and are going to knock off the aging defending champs. If Dirk is surrounded by more talent in their prime, the Mavs will get out of the first round again, 'nuff said.