Nets' Poor Defense, Worse Offense Leads to Second Summer Loss
by Net Income on Jul 21, 2008 7:15 PM EDT
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Is it possible to hit the rookie wall in mid-July? With the starting five shooting 16-for-44 and the team's perimeter defense porous, the Nets fell to the Warriors, 108-84, in their first game of the Rocky Mountain Revue. Julius Hodge was the lone bright spot, scoring 20 points, grabbing 10 boards and passing out three assists, all off the bench. After a miserable 1-for-6 first half, Brook Lopez finished with 16 and 6 while Marcus Williams picked up 14 points on 6-for-16 shooting. Ryan Anderson shot 25% overall and 0-for-4 from downtown while Jaycee Carroll never got untracked, going 1-for-7. Rookie Anthony Randolph had 16, and two non-roster players, Anthony Morrow and Dion Dowell, led the Warriors with 23 and 20. The Nets did dominate the paint, 48-38, but let the Warriors shot 56 percent from deep.
- Boxscore (pdf) - Utah Jazz
- Fast Paced Action: First Game to Break 100 - Utah Jazz
- Rocked at the Rocky Mountain Revue - Fred Kerber - New York Post Nets Blog
- Top picks click as Warriors singe Nets - Oakland Tribune
- On comeback trail, wary Claxton hopes his knee holds up - Tim Buckley - ESPN
- Nets Summer Continues in Utah - New Jersey Nets
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The box score shows we out-rebounded them only 45-43
by essrog on Jul 21, 2008 7:39 PM EDT reply actions
The best is yet to come with these rooks. rod needs to make his move soon if hes going too.
by biged on Jul 21, 2008 7:47 PM EDT reply actions
Reality sets in. Terrible shooting. Bad D. Is this MWilliams legacy? And why can’t Swilliams dominate the summer league?
by geo on Jul 21, 2008 8:17 PM EDT reply actions
@ essrog
the 48-38 discrepancy is not rebounding, we only outrebounded them 45-43, but 48-38 is that we dominated then in points in the paint.
by Jay C on Jul 21, 2008 9:04 PM EDT reply actions
The fact Sean Willams cant stay outta foul trouble makes me not want to play him more than 10 mins a game if I was coach. 6 fouls in 16 mins wtf?
by 732_Franchise on Jul 21, 2008 9:22 PM EDT reply actions
It would be nice if…
Brook Lopez could rebound against this level of talent.
Sean Williams could show value against this level of talent.
Marcus Williams would put up bigger numbers to up his trade value :).
The team comes back next game and takes defense personally.
by WontonTony on Jul 21, 2008 10:09 PM EDT reply actions
This team consistswe of many first round talents, but lost to a team that with a lot of unknown names…
by jarkid on Jul 21, 2008 10:20 PM EDT reply actions
That box score continues to display only the first quarter scoring. Can others read it?
by Bapopik on Jul 21, 2008 11:12 PM EDT reply actions
Bap, it’s an eight-page pdf. The first page is the first quarter. The last page is the final boxscore. Hit the arrow until you get to the last page, or fill in an 8 where it says 1/8.
by NetsDaily on Jul 21, 2008 11:14 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah, Bapopil you should scroll down the pages to read more information.
I thought there was only one page there, too.
by jarkid on Jul 21, 2008 11:54 PM EDT reply actions
Rod take care of business and get rid of Marcus after tomorrow.
by Brian on Jul 22, 2008 1:23 AM EDT reply actions
Its not MWill’s fault for the loss (didn’t mean it that way). Just meant to say, get on with whatever the next deal will be (most likely involving MWill) so we can finally get moving with our young team.
by Brian on Jul 22, 2008 3:08 AM EDT reply actions
We need to get use to titles like. Boston blitzes Nets, Toronto rocks lowly Nets, Philly breezes by Nets, Washington crushes Nets, Miami to hot for Nets, Knicks beats Nets, Atlanta flys over Nets, Orlando makes Nets dissapear, Indiana pace is too much for Nets, Charlotte Cats trounce Nets. Thats just some of the east coast teams. We are in so much trouble with this team unless Rod does what he does and finds that game changer now before its too late. Do you guys really want to read headlines like this all season??
by biged on Jul 22, 2008 5:32 AM EDT reply actions
Fred Kerber writes: “Julius Hodge scored most of his points on dunks and layups”.
a) He is not going to get those shots in real league play and b) Slashing is what CDR does and they are not going to play Hodge over CDR come regular season. Unless Hodge shows a jumper soon he is going back to the Dleague.
by Mt57 on Jul 22, 2008 11:03 AM EDT reply actions
Quote from Hoopsworld:
The most disappointing Net was Sean Williams, who really struggled in a matchup against Anthony Randolph.
The versatile 6’11 forward was too much for Williams to do anything against other than foul. Randolph wasn’t on from the field, but did get to the line 13 times by attacking Williams relentlessly.
by Mt57 on Jul 22, 2008 4:34 PM EDT reply actions
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