What Dirk Will Never Do.

I don't believe I've said a word about the NBA playoffs or the Mavs at all this year. But this FANTASTIC Suns/Spurs series and especially last nights game necessitates that something be said.

You can run the Nash/Dirk argument into the ground all you want. Talk about defensive liabilities. Talk about them having to separate to come into their own. Talk about MVP's. Whatever. But the bottom line is this:

You will NEVER, EVER see Dirk play with a sliver of the heart that Steve Nash runs the court with at all times.

You will NEVER, EVER see Dirk respond to a hard foul by manning up and getting in a guys face.

Last night when Bobby Horry hip-checked Nash into the scorers table and the wheels came off, it reminded me of that moment in Rocky, when he pops Apollo for the first time in round one and the music kind of starts...

Yeah, so to use a gross cliche, Steve Nash is Rocky.

Dirk, however, is Jackie Styles.

Jackie Stiles played her collegiate ball in the same town I was in during college. She apparently broke the all-time NCAA woman's basketball career scoring record. She was real good. But she was also, a girl.

Thus, Dirk is Jackie Stiles. Real good. But a girl on the court. Except for the jump shot. Dirk has a real one and I've still yet to ever see a female basketball player take an actual jumpshot.

Enjoy your trophy kiddo. Maybe you can play dress up with it while your buddy wins himself a title.