But the visceral joy in Dallas on June 20, 2006 was different. It was Williams and Walker shouting to anyone and everyone that they weren't the basketball cancers previously portrayed. It was assistant coach Ron Rothstein, the coach during the franchise's first three seasons starting 1988, sitting quietly, emotionally, saying, "I'm just really grateful for Pat bringing me back." And it was Wade, whose play defined that six-game series with both his 34.7 scoring average and 97 free-throw attempts, soaking it all up as Mavericks owner Mark Cuban continued to vent then, and even still now, about the unfairness of the officiating.