So much for integrity, Bob. My mistake.

@David
So I guess that means you have no response. Fair enough. But rather than be insulting, challenge the assumptions…if you can.

It’s not minutes. It is establishing trust and consistancy. he doesn’t trust them and does not allow them to play through mistakes. Sean Williams goes from stating to not getting off the bench. Marcus makes a bad pass or a bad shot and gets pulled never to see daylight. I don’t trust this guy at all to develop young players. He can’t impart any “been there done that” type of wisdom. His rotation management is about the worst I’ve seen. We have regressed for three years in a row. The coach has to lead and be able to have a system that works and I’m sorry, he fails miserably at both counts. This also affects young players. It’s bad enough they are going to Brooklyn. Having to watch them with Lawrence Frank as coach util then will be awful.

Is there one person out there who thinks Frank would get any calls as a head coach from any other team in the league….of course not. Avery Johnson gets three within days of being fired. Why not get the best coach possible for your team if you want to win and be competitive. Keeping Frank is admitting you are going to be a middle of the road team.
mo

What?? The Nets system is hard to learn? That’s just an excuse. If the other team knows your plays then I know damn well your own team knows the system.

Of course, he’s going to give minutes to the players he trusts, they are the only ones getting playing time. Hence, the non-development.

Just quit talking about it and be about it. Do something different and start developing, start motivating, stop bowing down to the vets, learn when to substitute and when not to, do whatever it takes to bring out the best in this team. Man up!!!

When Sean Williams play Kristic must pray… about minutes!
When Nenad Krstic play NJN must looooose!

Williams – 5min. = WIN
Kristic – S5 – 20-30min = LOST

Why Kristic is in S5, why….?

AREA 51 IS ROTY!!!!!!!!

I think Peter makes a good point- it is not just about minutes. It is about developing trust and confidence in their own abilities. How many times have we heard about our young players not having enough confidence. They get a chance to be on the floor, but they get pulled too quickly after making mistakes. This pattern erodes their self-confidence and the young players begin to “think” instead of play instinctively.

If you start 29 games, you should develop a certain level of consistency on your own. All this hoo-ha about Frank pulling rookies and ruining their precious confidence gets really tiresome, particularly when the same players keep making the same mistakes. Boone seems to have gotten past this problem and he was the player supposedly with the least amount of self-confidence.

I like both Williams a lot and understand both are still young, but Marcus still can’t guard a bank with a machine gun and Sean is often out of place at both ends of the floor. Before blaming Frank for their problems, you might want to re-read what Carter and Jefferson said about them PUBLICLY: that Marcus needs to be more consistent when he is out there on the floor and Sean needs to be more mature.

This is exactly the response I expected. Ignore the facts and find excuses.

@ Net Income

Let’s choose to overlook this particular area. What has this man done in the the last couple of years to justify keeping him? Our offense is awful, the players tank early and don’t put up effort. We have regressed for three years in a row. It is also the coach’s job to have them ready and find a system for them to play in. he does not adapt well to changes in the game. You can say anything you want but I and a lot of others think he is an awful coach.

You call my premises excuses but I stand by the sense that it is not all about minutes.

Why would you choose to overlook this particular area when it’s only the focus of this entire article? Bash Frank for the other stuff you cited when when you have the information, but it’s convenient how when there’s an article stating that Frank DOES play rookies…people choose to ignore it. Does that really strike you as the best way to convince people of your position?

How many rookies flourished under LF’s guidance? None. And please do not call somebody a bust just because he did not do well under LF. Who knows what would have happened under different circumstance?

Anthony, let me say it differently. based on this I’ll concede that he gives them minutes. But how many of those minutes are in garbage time or at the end of quarters or the half when you know the clock is going to stop and you can’t get yourself into a rhythm or if you make one bad play you’re nailed to the bench. He needs to develop them by giving them minutes and allowing them to play through.

He admits that he failed to get the players to buy in. His rotation management is awful, the offense is too complicated and the defense sucks. He is a good X’s and O’s guy but that is an assistant’s job. He is supposed to be a head coach. I would take Butch Beard or any other guy who has been our coach instead of L. Frank. He can’t leave soon enough for me.

Poor article, I hate when writers just throw a bunch of statistics at you to try and make a point. Kristic got minutes after it was apparent the first 2 months that the kid was smart, had tremendous talent and that Frank was just being a boob by not putting him in the game. Necessity forced Frank’s hand. My biggest complaint with Frank has to be the duo of Huskies. Both showed flashes of brilliance in their rookie years despite public comments by Frank that had to shoot their confidence. Boone is smart and mature and he found a way to make sure the coach wasn’t daft enough to ignore him for two years. Williams struggles show that if you are not the coach’s cookie-cutter type than he has no patience for dealing with you. My conclusion is that while you can throw whatever numbers you want out there, Frank often coaches without the emotion of great coaches (who have once played the game themselves). His style is death to players who are young and have to learn how to better self-motivate.

@ NetIncome

Carter and Jefferson should take their own advice and learn to be just as consistent. When the young guys do step up their games, here comes Carter with the iso crap as if he’s going to give us a win but because of his own inconsistency, he rarely gets the job done.

Wow, I’ve been reading this blog for a few months now and never felt the need to comment – hilariously funny some days but mostly a handful of people commenting on things of which they have no real knowledge or understanding. Seems like a bunch of teenagers who easily jump to conclusions, make over-generalizations, and generally react quite defensively when others don’t agree with them – easy targets for button pushing (@mina:-)

However, Netsdaily and Net Income’s bias against some players while the coach and veteran players except vc can do no wrong is too hard to overlook at this point (no need to mention other names – we all know who they are).

This article is just amazing – I am still in awe at how you can twist anything to Frank’s benefit. When I saw the title of the article I said, ok, now maybe finally we’re going to start hearing things that are a bit closer to the truth so that things could lighten up a bit around here. But no, you made it even worse! You have absolutely no credibility any more – I was at least trying to give the benefit of the doubt – until this…man, just amazing.

This article will come back to haunt you Net Income.

Facts, I mean, facts, are you serious? I don’t even think you guys know what those are anymore.

You too – wow. I’d really prefer that my comments be ignored and not posted rather than you guys editing them for no good reason.

Just amazing – and you really call this a blog? Don’t worry, no more comments from me. Sticking to sites that aren’t so policed by control freaks.

S.R., Gelen and Shady 1 speak the truth! Every day I read this blog, I see how pro-Frank it is. If you haven’t already “firefrank.com”.

The Suns,Mavs make the playoff’s and fire their coaches. We miss the playoffs and our coach keeps his job? NO!

“Here’s the reality: Frank gives minutes to players he trusts, no matter what the experience level. When those players don’t perform, they sit. He uses the prospect of big minutes as an incentive. That Frank doesn’t encourage or play young players is not just conventional wisdom. It is 180 degrees wrong.”

all of a sudden net income or bobbo i should say is throwing out facts…yea right.

this seems like such a kiss * article.

bottom line the youngsters minutes were inconsistent so their lay was incomnsitent.

he needs to learn how to trust them and be patient with them. its a no brainer to think that a rookie will only get better idf he plays through his mistakes.

the fact that frank only sticks with the player he trusts killed this team. plying guys like collins and allen the worst defender in the NBA is just ludicrous. and even though wright was a bust he was frank’s first player off the bench.

no matter how you cut it, the first thing that came out of thron’s mouth was that frank doesnt develop youngsters. in order to not give the media a chance to use these wqords as ammunition towards frank from thorn he added the you neeed the rifht players line.

thron beleives in those players he selected cvery much so.

and not once did any player or coach say anyuything about sean’s attitude or maturity. i dont know where you bring this nonsense from.

bottom libe, all the youngster have underachiveevd under frank.

the whole team has underachieved.

maybe next time you should write an artcticle on why fran self admittedly called himself a fauilure this year. but i guess youll probably twist it in a positive for frank.

frank ranked 28 out of 30 coahes this year only krystwack and thomas were worse, and he even beat the nets three times this year wiht a injured roster no less.

this site should not be so bias. these are responses for all the critcal comments of frank.

95% of the netsfan base think frank has done a horrible job this year.

dont think an article like will change anyone’s mind bobbo. nivce try though. but ya you definitly lost all credibiltiy there. maximum frank last one more year, minumum till december after his patented awful starts to seasons.

but ya he’s the nba’s best coach, and he’s a keeper i guess, but till now none of you have given ONE legit reason why he should stay after his awful coaching this year. every year excuses, injuries, kidd, he lost his hair, players are mocking him the roster stinks. i guess these are facts.

and ya, if frank is coach next year, you guys can already call next year’s piucks busts.

and with devin his nubers didnt get much better. he averaged one more point and one more assits and played 5 more minutes and shot a weaker fg %. so maybe you should get your facts staright.