rick carlisle coached one of the teams and shawn marion was on the phoenix suns that overcame a 3-1 deficit to the los angeles lakers. not a great lakers team back then in '06. it's going to be tough. i think the one string of hope that dallas clings to is that i these two games in san antonio, they were right there at the end, even though the games h didn't quite seem that way, they still had a shot to win. so i think they're clinging to that, if anything. >> i was reading, you brought uh shawn marion, of course. i heard he is the guy that, well, now at this point trying to motivate his teammates because he said he's been here t before. he's got it done. is this true? is he in the locker room tryingt to fire up the troops saying, we can do this? >> yeah, he did tell the guys that.e of course, when dirk was asked about that, he said, yeah, wells you know how shawn is.alf and dirk's kind of a glass-half-empty kind of guy. he's looking at this thing as a struggle.ng and it's going to be.ggle this team came in as the number-two seed. dirk kept saying that with the. trade with caron butler, bre

jason kidd is in the first year of a three-year deal. 3 shawn marion came over. he's in the first of a five-year deal. jason terry still has two yearsy left on the contract. it would be tough to get rid of him. you do have erick dampier's contract to work with over the summertime. caron butler has an attractive contract you can package.utle so the expectations is they can package some attractive contracts and do a sign and trade for a superstar or star-type player. i'm questioning now which superstar necessarily wants to come into this situation. q this is a very old team. it's the oldest team in the c league. it's not getting any younger. t they have a coaching situation that's interesting now, havingei benched caron butler and shawn marion, two starters in the series. it's an interesting situation. if the mavs can't somehow dig deep inside themselves and figure out how to get out of this mess.re o >> quickly before i let you go, got to ask, how is mark cuban holding up, jeff? >> well, i don't know if you saw him at the end of game four standing behind the mavs'