Nets Win, But Carter Injures Hamstring in Preseason Opener

Hopefully this isn’t going to be a lingering injury…looks like we’re pretty banged up so far. Not a good sign. CDR’s performance is encouraging, hopefully he’ll be that spark of the bench to stop the bleeding that we sorely needed last year.

CDR is very impressive. Swift is the worst. Why Lopez didn’t play?

Yest Swift was bad . But the worst were Eddie Gill and Mo Ager

He’s always had raggedy hamstrings, lol. He’ll be fine. We should be more worried about our defense! Late rotations is what cost us the win in regulation. I can understand the helter-skelter offense, seeing that no real starters were on the floor, but the mental lapse on defense have got to be fixed or the Nets will prove all the haters right…

oh god…….this is either a bad omen or a blessing in disguise because it looks like CDR can really ball…we may not have to worry about Simmons at all if this is just not a fluke

and how come Frank hasn’t played Brook or Yi? Is this development???? LET THEM PLAY!!!!

Its starting already. THE SKY IS FALLING!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree and Hassle and Ager are almost as bad as Jason Collins these guys just suck I like everyone but them on the roster.

@dre
you are absolutely right…i hate both ager and hassell..wonder hw they have the guts to go one on one..when they knw they arent capable of making the big shots…
CDR had an excellent game…very good skills…ryan played well too…swat had a nice rejection on wade..boone had a good game too…

I kinda hope Mo Ager hasn’t bought a House in NJ yet . He’s def. gonna get waived …..

How was Gill the worst? At least he contributed.

Guys this all part of the pre season drama .VC has to look like he pulled his ham so he can sit he’s fine and yi and brook will play next game.I was not impressed by the coaching but I wasn’t the only one who noticed huh kiki lol but seriously its a pre season game and its a good way for players to build confidence.

We played well and Vince returned to the court even though he didnt play, I doubt this injury is severe.
Anyway man Nets played really really well, CDR and Devin just completley took over the game.

Devin was amazing.

CDR was outstanding (Especially for his first game).

Anderson was a nice surprise.

Sean with the monster blocks.

Boone showed hustle.

Gill was a VERY nice surprise.

But 1 question……WHY DIDNT OUR BEST DRAFT PICK PLAY?
Seriously Frank better not screw another one of our rookies.

Bleah nevermind that this team is just oozing with potential and Im very excited.

check out off. rebound # for Anderson & Boone!
Impressive!

ugly, ugly game. its preseason which we expect and all our guys didnt play due to injury and being safe (yi,brook,keyon,eddie,jarvis) but this is how i think we are going to win games. ugly games where we have to gut it out.

*VC – played very limited and didnt have an impact on the game. the hammy injury probably is nothing as it wasnt like he high the floor like a rock and needed help off the court.

*devin – scored the opening basket on a nice layup then was shaky at times especially with his passing. he had a couple of turnovers early. at the end of the game harris took over offensively and defensively by stripping the ball. not his best, but once again it was preseason. he ended strong

*Simmons – missed a handful of shots he should make. he should make those when he gets in rhythm. did nothing to stand out

*Swat – well vince and crew praised swat in the papers, but swat didnt exactly delivery. his hands need to improve because he had the ball around or under the basket and had butterfingers. timing with teammates will help, but today wasnt his best day. he did have 2 goaltendings that just hit the backboard, but it was nice to see him being aggressive. swats highlight? stuffing d-wade.

*RA – he hit some 3’s, got some rebounds and looked very comfortable. when i was watching ryan, it looked like he was confident in his game and in the system. he didnt come across like a rookie, as did cdr (more on him later). Legs said it best, fans in new jersey will love ryan anderson and he said that RA is a guy you have to be around to appreciate how good he is. he isnt the most athletic and wont be on highlights, but he knows the game of basketball. in other words, ryan anderson is simply a basketball player. fan fav thats for sure.

*Boone – played with the 2nd unit, but played to show he wants that starting center spot and if you go by one day he won the spot hands down. especially during the 4th and OT Boone was active around the basket getting a put-back dunk, tip-in lay in and a baseline jumper to fall. he also looked confident and comfortable. he will be better when playing with vince and devin consistently by getting passes from them instead of eddie gill and mo ager. def one of the standouts from today

*Swift – he knows he is in a contract year right? he tried to do too much when he got that ball. he was basically a black hole when he got it. yes only 1 game in preseason but we’ve been w/o basketball im going to nit-pick if i’d like too =] thumbs down for stro.

*Trenton – im not his biggest fan. he is good if he is on a good team. he could be a posey type of guy, but on a lower level. his shots off the dribble were bad and he missed open shots.

*Ager – samething we saw from him during garbage time last year. he does try to be aggressive, but if he isnt fouled he doesnt make something positive happen as he gets blocked or misses the shot. i never thought he had a future with this team and if we want a hodge or gill to make the team it would be at ager’s expense.

*Gill – i like the guy. nothing special, but he hit some 3’s and knows parts of the system. if it was up to me i would pick him over hodge. hodge can play more positions, but i rather have gill handle the ball if god forbid dooling or harris is out. you can always pick up a wind player if need be, but gill i think is somewhat of a safety net.

*CDR – solid. aggressive. long. focused. winner. still cant believe he fell to us, but we are all happy. he was THE standout today imo. MVP on the game = CDR for me. he was long and got a couple of steals for easy transition points, hit some jumpers and is just a crafty guy. like i said with RA, when i watch CDR it looks like he knows what he is doing and is composed while doing it! Legler said he wasnt sure if CDR would get a spot in the rotation, thats wrong. CDR is 100% in this rotation and you can almost say that we should move vince to the 3 and start cdr at the 2. is it possible? yeah. likely? not right now. CDR is going to be another fan fav, the guy just plays hard. his nice reverse dunk on the break after a steal was very pretty as well.

~overall the game was what we expected. sloppy and ugly. miami looked good at times and bad. we looked good at times and bad. beasley looked good. i wanted too see swat on him more than swift. maybe that will happen game 2 in london.

we saw frank use a hockey line change strategy for the game. harris-vc-simmons-ryan-swat as the first line and 2nd line was gill-cdr-hassell-stro-boone. then vince went out and thats how ager got in.

im assuming, well hoping, that Yi and Brook will see time in the london game. i cant watch it so im pissed, but w/e. as far as i know Yi and Brook didnt play to take it safe. we just saw vince hurt his hammy in a meaningless preseason game so lets not push it with our 2 7footers, especially one that is being marketed as a franchise cornerstone type of guy in Yi.

we can take positive and negatives, but the big picture is that it is preseason with a lot of our regulars out of action. brook,yi,eddie,dooling,hayes were all out, those are pretty big pieces to our team.

another thing. didnt like how the offense looked. looked stale and we struggled to get off a good shot, which is what a good offensive set is supposed to do. giving the ball to hassell and letting him iso is something i DONT EVER want to see again. =]

NETS BASKETBALL IS BACK! THANK YOU GOD!

Fire Frank! Its the samething as last year he loves to play the bums like Ager & Hassell.

We won! Keep Frank!

All in all I like the direction we are headed. Our offense isn’t as bad as everyone is making it out to be. VC was limited, Brook, and Yi didn’t even play, and Simmons had a boarder line bad game. We still managed to put up 100, and 91 in regulation. Gill isn’t that bad of a player, but seeing him light up opponents gives me goosebumps when I think about what Dooling can do.
1 more thing CDR is a STUD.

WAIT I TURNED IT OFF AFTER AGER THROW UP THAT UGLY SHOT WHY IS EVERYONE SAYING WE WON IN OT.? IM SO CONFUSED

@dunkenyonutzz

ESPN thought the shot was ruled a 3 when Cook’s toe was on the line. so instead of a 1pt miami lead it was a tied game, but we the fans didnt know until Ager missed and then they found out we were going into OT. the ref’s ruled it a 2, yet the scorers ruled it a 3 and confused everyone

Well I hope CDR won’t fade away in the regular season. Remember Marcus Williams played really well in his rookie preseason, and look what happened to him. But Stro really sucked horribly, I don’t even think he was aiming at the hoop half the time. And Lopez and Yi, 2 of our premier players not in the game sucked, hopefully we see them soon.

Wow 6 players injured. This better not be a trend.

I’m having flashes of the play when Devin stole the ball from Beasley and drove it full court for the reverse lay in. Sexy

And as i have said all summer, there is no reason why Josh Boone should not be a starter on this team. I like Sean, but he’s better served coming off the bench as a sparkplug. Boone is a legit player and its sad that Nets fans don’t realize how good he is or respect this kid.

IMO, I go with Boone-Anderson-Simmons-Carter-Harris, and let Simmons hang himself so there will be no excuse as to not give CDR a crack at the starting rotation. Lopez will just have to flat out show that he deserves to start over Boone as time passes. i like the idea of having Anderson’s three point shooting and rebounding at the 4. Anyone have any opinions on him defensively?

NO EXCUSE as to why Lopez did not see the floor. Yi, i could care less, but Lopez needs to play.

Stro is as good as gone, but we’d still have 2 many bigs unless Ryan, and Yi can play the 3 occasionally.

It really makes you appreciate how much better the stars of the league are when we are watching a 5on5 group of nobodies play for a buzzer beater. Bricks and airballs galore!

Why didn’t he play brook ar yi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fire Frank! Fire Frank! Fire Frank! Fire Frank!

i meant or
Fire Frank! Fire Frank! Fire Frank! Fire Frank!

Frank will play them next game.. and sit down swift hopefully :)

Frank cant handle the backlash of ppl questioning his starting lineup.Its a joke that Yi and Lopez didnt play.CDR cant start but he should def. get the bulk of the min.Frank had never done anything that made me say thats cool ill accept that.I just cant take another season of Frank pulling Knuckle head tricks.Play the starting five together as much as possiable b4 the season starts.
  note to frank if your too scared to choose a starting line up,have 2 different players select 8 men swods.do this at every practice and if you see certain players keep getting picked 1st odds are their the better player and should get to start.

Starting lineup should be as follows:

Harris, VC, CDR, Ryan Anderson, and either Boone/ Brook.

…and yes that might mean starting three rookies!

That lineup in the 4 quater was horrible

Relax…It’s the first game of the Preseason

I better get rid of Ager and Hassell and keep Gill and Hodge or leave that spot open. Swift is not good enough and I’ve doubts about Sean. We’ve to see Lopez and Yi to comment.

Anybody knows how to watch NBA TV on Optimum?

JustinNJ,

Ratner is gonna force Frank to start Yi only to get his market value started thats the only reason why he did this trade.

first of all. Yi WILL be a starter. i know frank said 3,4,5 are up in the air, but you do not trade one of your most popular players and leading scorer last year for a guy who you are marketing as a cornerstone piece and bring him off the bench.

yi only come off the bench if he is injured and that should not be the case since he has done 5v5 full contact practices before today. there is no reason to push him now.

harris-carter-simmons-yi-boone i think is the most popular choice for the opening day lineup assuming there are no injuries. i think really onlythe 3 spot could change. they are going to take it slow with brook and boone has the confidence of frank because of last year and has to suck to lose his center job. Yi gets it because of who he is. he really doesnt have to prove anything in camp imo. it would be a horrible PR move if Yi is healthy and is coming off the bench.

i would LOVE harris-cdr-carter-yi-boone. you can switch cdr and carter however you want but i would like to watch that 5 get chemistry.

CDR i think can be a Kittles for us. he is long like kerry and can play the passing lanes, he is a smart guy and he is crafty offensively. him and KK are different on the offensive end, but i think defensively cdr can do what kerry did for us.

i think we all can agree that with Brook, CDR and RA we should consider ourselves lucky how solid our draft turned out. yeah its only 1 preseason game but we saw in the summer league and the reports from practices were all good reviews. even at the open house at Ramapo that i was at you could see how RA and CDR were playing. with confidence, aggressiveness and they were comfortable. Brook was limited so it was tough to get a good read on him, but he is a smart kid as well. lets hope it continues to game 2 and so on.

Gill Harris and CDR showed alot of heart.
I espically enjoyed seeing Gill hustle for lose balls and making chalmers pass up the ball almost everytime he was playing D. Great to see him do well, I hope he makes the team.

hmm Carter gets injured because he was taking it to the rim….

and I here critics saying he’s too soft to take it too the basket.

It’s not serious at all, hope V.C can play on Sunday! go NETS!

also…

• Before he got hurt, Carter looked good. He went at the defense and the fact that he tried to draw charges on back-to-back trips in the first quarter was a good sign since everyone knows defense isn’t Carter’s forte. Another good thing is that it was his hamstring and not his ankle – for obvious reasons.

looking good V.C!

Personally I think the real disappointment of the game was the terrible commentary…CDR is ROY

It’s great to see the Nets pull down a W with so many DNPs (Brook’s leg, Yi’s ankle, precautionary stuff.) Without VC to help the scoring, I think we witnessed a big game today.

CDR stealing the ball from D.Wade and scoring was the highlight for me..NASTY. He plays with passion and heart, we know he’s got the skills…he’ll be a starter very soon.

VC going out doesn’t worry me much. Rod thinks he’ll be fine, but they should sit him Sunday for precautionary reasons. VC was playing like a true leader on both ends of the court while he was in (one of those blocking fouls was REALLY close to a charge.)

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bandit110

100% agree.

VC DIDN’T HURT HIMSELF .. FRANK WANT TO SEE THE NETS
WITH OUT CARTER .. BECUSE THEY’RE GOING TO TRADE HIM ..

@bandit110

couldnt agree more. the commentary was HORRIBLE. CDR enters the game, 10 minutes later they say ‘CDR is now in for the nets’. you serious?

they didnt know what they were talking about. they only knew about wade and team usa and beasley. outside of that they couldnt give any type of good information during the telecast. who is going to beat out cdr in the backcourt? trenton hassell? mo ager?

and frankly i could give a squirrels left nut about Legler’s playing time in europe. honestly i dont care.

better commentators. espn or dante and galante doing the orlando summer league? at least dante and galante werent taking themselves serious and were there to have fun and not get paid (that i know of) wheras matt and legs work for espn and knew jack. it was just awful imho

Yi will obviously get the nod for the starting lineup, however, I don’t think we should wait all year to see if he can turn into a Dirk Nowitzki type player. Everyone says they see flashes of Dirk, but, I don’t see the aggressiveness that Dirk gives every game. I hope I am proven wrong and he shows brillance because we lost a very good player for him. The rookie wall is over and you usually see how good a basketball player will be by his second or third year.

CDR will get much more light on this team than I thought because how many other true scorers do we have? First game so let’s not get too excited (82-0! 82-0!), but he looked terrific. RA looked like a player too, though not nearly as flashy.

I also turned it off after the Ager chuck and only realized later that we won. Frickin’ ESPN! It is fine that Frank played the scrubs at the end of this game—they need a real chance to demonstrate how badly they stink before they get cut or are otherwise disposed of. It’s a helluva a way to sell the game—the French come expecting great USA basketball and they get Ager, Hassel, Swift, and Gill in crunch time. Comment dites-vous en francais “I want my money back”?

I think Vince knows how good CDR is and wanted to move out of the way so he can display how versitle he really is. As a result, CDR is now in the regular rotation hands down! Maybe? lol

I think we’re gonna see a starting unit like this almost halfway into the season:

C: Boone
PF: Yi
SF: CDR
SG: VC
PG: Blur

Bobby would be awesome off the bench, he can be a real leader for the 2nd unit. Put Bobby out there with Jarvis and we have a duo that could be key to keeping us in games while our starters rest.

I saw the whole game and here are my observations:

VC – He played well before he was injured with the strained hamstring. He drove to the basket a lot and made good shots.

DH- He started out shaky with a couple of turnovers but really turned on the heat when it counted the most in the 4th quarter.

Simmons – He played a average game, not really good but not really bad as well. There were a couple open shots that should have been made.

RA – He played well tonight. Even though he missed a few open shots he still contributed with his sense for the ball. His rebounding helps us win this game. He played confidently.

SWAT – I thought he was playing out of position at the beginning when he was playing center. He’s more fit to be at the 4. He had a couple of nice blocks that were counted as goal tending, and the block on wade was the highlight of his game. He didn’t get too many touches on the offense.

CDR – He played like a lottery pick player. He was active on both ends of the floor in the 2nd half. A lot of teams will hate themselves for passing on him in the draft. If he continue to play consistently like todays game he can definitely have a chance to be ROY.

Gill – He played a decent game for a 3rd stringer pg. Made a couple of nice open shots.

Boone – He didn’t contribute much in the 1st half but really played well later on in the 2nd half. Especially in the 4th quarter and OT with the 2nd units. He was active on both sides of the floor. He also showed a nice 10ft jumper.

Swift, Hassel, Ager- With the minutes that they got tonight, they didn’t contribute much at all. You would think they would at least bring something to the team… but in reality it was only a waste of playing time. I don’t see any of these 3 making the rotations. I hope we can just get rid of these 3, which would solve our roster issue.

I know this is only the 1st game, so I can’t read too much into it, but I like what I saw with the rooks. I look forward to watching Brook and Yi play this sunday, as well as the remaining players who didn’t play today.

i saw the first half and i dont like swift gill and ager. vc is going to remain a net in brooklyn. I would of love to see yi and lopez play but they were injured also i love CDR i new he was a steal in the draft i think hell be for real

now the nets are young and they have bright bright future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, you people are all so funny. It´s a preseason game. You understand, a preseason game. He opted not to play Yi Jianlian and Brook Lopez saying that with seven players competing for time in the frontcourt, he didn’t want to “chop up” anyone’s minutes by trying to get everyone in.
So they will play enough in the other game.

Preseason, everyone relax. But I told you all CDR is gonna be nive.

Obviously CDR was highlight of the game…RA also looked very comfortable. It seemed very apparent that Hassell, Swift, & Ager should get the boot.
I would rather spend the season watching the new young players get time and experience with lots of energy and lose a few more games than sacrifice their development. Portland is a good model tho with a much better coach.
mo

The most likely reason Lopez and Yi didnt play this game is because we already know they’re on the roster and its up to the other guys to prove themselves and if they’re worth the roster spot/playing time in the regular season.

@Mr Dollar Bills
I agree, Boone deserves to be a starter. People here were happy with Jason Collins setting picks all game, how can they question Boone at all? As long as Boone provides at least 2 points and 2 rebounds a game he’s already a better starter than Collins, who was actually being praised at times…

Its not a question about Yi starting. Its about how long can Simmons keep his starting job. If CDR is capable of that kind of play 3-4 out of 5 nights(which is a lot to ask from a rookie), he has to start at the two.

If Yi loses his spot to Anderson, or get forced out of the starting line up by the emergence of Brook Lopez(and the need to still keep Boone in there at the 4), so be it.

I think there should be open competition for each frontcourt spot, so that the best players can start and help us to compete. If Anderson and CDR play their way into the starting 5 that is a blessing for this team. Plus, i think the fight for PT will make Brook, Josh, Sean, Ryan, and Yi come with their best stuff every night, whoever starts slacking will just not play. Swift shouldn’t get any burn over any of the young guns. I want those guys to develop…they have the potential to be one of the best froncourt rotations in the league in due time.

I know it’s just a preseason game, but CDR looked AWESOME. He’s a stud.

I agree with Mr DB re- Josh Boone. I think he really deserves it. He will be a double-double machine for years. Book it.

CDR should be the offensive threat/designated scorer in the pressing unit off the bench, not a starter. Not a knock on his abilities, it’s just what this team needs. It’s also a great role for him—he should get lots of easy buckets off of steals forced by pressure.

Chris or Ryan should get the start but i know simmons will be the starter at his rate.
     
i realize how bad of a spelling swod is(squad)

Whoo! it was great to watch CDR go to town. He said he was going to show all the GM’s the error of their ways and he delivered on that. Swat did not live up to the training camp hype — mishandling almost every pass in the post. granted the passes were tricky ones, but that was about 6 or 8 points squandered. Good defense in general. Simmons did some stuff. Boone was good. Saw him give SWAT a look on one play where he seemed to expect Williams to close out to help on a guy driving the baseline, but I wasn’t sure Swat should be leaving his man, who happened to be Shawn Marion. Surely if Swat stepped to cover the baseline Marion would have been open for a hand-off and dunk.

the commentators were quite annoying, having conversations about this and that, not even acknowledging big plays when they happened. Come on guys, this is a special international exhibition, act like it matters a little to the fans who are watching. We’ve already read all the stuff you’re talking about.

hey somebody help/////// I watched the game and the score was Miama won by 1. Then I get home and they said it went into OT.
I dunno