Nets Lose Tough One in Milwaukee as Yi Breaks Finger

Fire Frank!

Najera is amazing. A ball of energy and teamwork.

Figures, just when Yi is hitting his stride he is done.

We are done …

next 3 games after thunders : celtics, blazers, celtics.

And yi might be out … damn

Nets are done.

If Harris doesn’t come back soon, what good will the Nets be?

Najera at PF? comon now, he’s undersized.

Will we get a Swift sighting? Or perhaps Boone and Lopez together?

13 ast the other night and 14 this night! is that CP3? maybe we should switch vince to the pg and make harris the SG just like what larry brown did to iverson.. i think it will work out, vince is really the best passer on this team, maybe even better than other teams pg..

Tough break for Yi, as he was playing so well. Can’t ask for a better situation on the road against a team in the same “league” as our guys. Tie game, with just seconds to go. Dooling getting his pocket picked cost us the game. Couldn’t stop Redd in the clutch. He is a player. Disappointed, but not angry or upset. Without Devin and Yi, on the road, this rebuilding year, this was not a bad loss, just a loss. Let’s beat OKC, before we meet the Celtics, who after tonight’s loss against the Cavs, are going to ready to kill us.

I think Ryan will be back in the rotation.

oh here’s my thoughts on the game.

Hey, I know we are all frustrated, but that was a hard fought game. We didn’t have Devin, and we didn’t have Yi in the second half, we came back froma 14 point deficit, but turnovers and breakdowns on the defense ended the game for us.

Vince Carter-Amazing as usual. Almost had a triple double, just one rebound shy, but he’s been amazing. He got to the freethrow line, he made shots when we needed it, and he’s been playing at a high level this season.

Keyon Dooling-had a key turnover left in the game, I don’t know if he was going behind the back, but that might have cost us the game. He still did alright though, he made clutch 3s and brought enough scoring.

Yi Jianlian-was playing great until he left the game. He was a beast on the boards, and not shooting as well, we could have used him in the game late.

Bobby Simmons-I thought he was going to be the hero. He made the big 3 to tie the game, but he just broke down the next play, he let Luke get the easy roll, but other wise he played great. About 15 points I think for him? He’s playing much better as of late.

Brook Lopez-I believe he could have gotten a little more rebounds, but he should have slided when Luke got passed Bobby. He didn’t play great, but he had an alright game, if he could box out, we could have gotten a few more possesions. But alright game.

Jarvis Hayes-he had a very nice game, and was shooting the lights out in this game, it was a good night for him.

Trenton Hassell-didn’t have enough time in to evaluate. Hit one shot.

CDR-was he in for rebounding purposes? Even he got time over Anderson.

Najera-turned it over a few times, and sometimes he’s too aggressive which leads to bad fouls, but I wish he was in instead of Bobby at the last play.

Josh Boone-if you had made your freethrows, we would have tied with them.

Well Luke ran into the lane and got the last shot, I wished it would just have swished to give us enough time.

Anyway’s it was a hard fought game, what more can you ask without two of our starters? At least this is a Nets team that never gives up in the game, and show fight. We’ve got to focus on beating OKC and it will be a successful 14 game stand. Come on we all were thinking 16-20. BUt 18-19 isn’t half bad.

Hopefully Harris will be back, and we’ll get something going. Hope Yi is alright.

That group played their heart out.No real fan should criticize the coach, player, trainer, ball boy etc
1.Carter was spectacular.(if he doesn’t make the all/star team something wrong)
 2.Hayes(should’ve played the whole game),
 3.Dooling was great(that last t/o hurt)
4. Simmons huge 3’s all night.
5.
Yi was great

Come back Devin Harris

please guys don’t say we are done after one close game.

Overreacting as usual Net fans. calm down.

Honestly Carter’s future position is at the point. The man has great vision. He knows how to create for himself and others.

R.M Says:
January 9th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

please guys don’t say we are done after one close game.

Overreacting as usual Net fans. calm down.

Okay it was an overreaction.

But if Harris does not play on Monday, the Nets will get the same treatment the Knicks got the other day. Russell Westbrook is playing at a very high level right now and with the usual home woes minus two starters, the Nets could be in some serious trouble.

NO MOR SIZE TRIPLE EEEEEEEEES

Carter’s vision on the court has been unbelievable. Does he have eyes behind/sideway his head?

Maybe Carter should be PG. Very Interesting.

WERE DONE!!! YI WAS PLAYING WELL AND NOW HE IS HURT AND WHO KNOWS WHEN HARRIS WILL COME BACK

Celtics will kill us hard to ease the losing streak and trend.

I don’t believe wh we didn’t play well in 2nd quarter.

Yi Jianlian is ou for 3 weeks? This is not good… I say start Najera and give Anderson a sixth man role off the bench… would not want to shake Anderson’s confidence… only reason i would start Najera lol

Just enjoy the season Nets aren’t making it to the Championship so enjoy the success we are having now.

this game was lost on two p[ossesions for the nets. the one they were down 3 with about 40 secs left and either the play was called for dooling or dooling called the play for himself which would be either way idiotic. the ball in this instance only has to go to vince period. especially when the bucks had absolutely no answers for him. he cut them into pieces. but for some reasons the ball goes to dooling on the most important posession for the nets that put them in a huge whole. even if the play was deesigned for dooling to kick and drive to vc thats stupidddddddddddddd.they had no answer for vc. one play later theyre still down by 3 and vc gets the ball and creates a beautiful play for bobby who has played decentl;y better of late. even though frank has done a pretty good job, this game was lost by him and him only. to compund the problems he created even more, he puts dooling, vc, hayes, simmons, and hassell, to play the last defensive possession. i mean the only time you play super small for the lastd efensive possession is if theres no mpore than 2 secs. cause then you gotta switch on everything. but with 10secs thats enough time to get to the rim. and what happens, simmons, who looks like h9is knees or ankles are totaaly busted, hes so robotic in his movements for a 28 yrsold(i would offer him for hughes,, gets switched on ridnour, ridbour easuily takes him off the dribble, goes straight to the rim where there iosnt one net big there to protexcct. thats where lopez is supposed to be, he easily with his height challenges that shot and uyourre probably talking about overtime, with net momentum. lopezwas supposed to be there period. especially when you have a young center stud who evry game looks like a potential allstar for yrs, you gotta use him for what he iis, and he could do about everything buut shoot the 3 and i bet if he put his minf\d to it he probably would be able to do it if he practiced it and tried to intergrate it into his vast arsenal. an\d shot blocking, which he’s 5 th in the league in think, and altering shots are one of his specialty. very weak play calling in the end by coaching staff. i give prop where is due and i give criticism when its due, but i only state what i see. this game was lost by lawrence frank. he didnt give his team the best chance to win. he puyut them in the hole. now he has done a pretty gopod job so far. i actually thought the nets would be something like this, just check my previous comments before the season started. i give credit for frank for devising an offense to facilitate harris’play, even though i would like to see a bit less of it and run some of the offense the netsvhave been running the l;ast few days wioth harris out. im sure harris could eaasily adapt and put the same nubers. i think he now has the confidence in himself that he can score 25 and dish out 7 every night, no matter what. so mix up the offense a uit to get yoi, and brook going, who have played very well since gharris has been out. now yi might be out for a bit, thats bad news, exspecially it looked like he was getting it. hopefully its 2 to 3 weeks max. but that meeans anderson, and even mayvbbe sean can slot some at the 4 where his priginal positi0n is and where he played like a monster last year. but when you have twowo players like vince and devin who can create their shots for themselves and others anytime they wish, and uyou surround them with shotters, and you have a couple of nice big men ywho playe well and could play better if they got more touches, you see why there where they arte. now i hope frankk learns from his lessons admiots where he went wrong and move on. hes done a pretty good job this year, he did get lucky when boone got injured which forced him to slot in brook in the starting unit. thats when everyhting changd. and the nets have a decent bench to. a veteran bench. but boone has been playing god dang awful. he is a superrr liabilty on offense. cant score for a lick whether hes open or not ifor a layup. there isnt any excuse, why isnt he and the coaching staff trying to work on his offensive game. irts pitiful. and at the center position he cant defend thre biogger guys. they easily score over him, and the opposing coach recognizes uirt and runs multiple plays at him exploiting that eakness, and then frank pulls out a zone agaisnt the 3point shooting team with redd. sometimes i wonder the rotation and play calling. its really a luxury when ypou got playmakers like vince and devin who can bail you out anytime. but this game should hurt the nets because you feel that they lost it themselves ion the end. carter should of had the ball with 40 secs left down 3 which resulted to a crazy dooling turnover, and lopez should of been there protecting the rim on a wide open ridnour fkloater that didnt even wanna go in and ending up killing the nets cause it hanged on the rim for 1.5 secs.

all in all the netsvshoukld of had a better chance and hopfully a loss like this doesnt buiite them ion the end. theres nothing worse then having the 12, 13, or 14th pick and not making the playoffs then getting thr 15 or 16th pick and squacking tin the playoffs.

but at least both simmos and yi polayed better than rj. yi had a much better game going. he had 16 pts when he left on the 3rd. and simmons was moreimnpactful. and looking at the recdent games for both teams the trade already looks ioin the nets favor. vc took the battle to him and pretty much got him everytime. no wonder ot was an easy dfecision for the nets to trade rj instead of vc. vc had a monster game, and he should of got the ball more. i just hopeeee frank learns from his mistakkes. it sucks whenthe team loses because the coach made the wrong decisions.

thank god the nets play the thunder next and get a good chance to get at 500 before that toufggh strectch where they play the c’s twice who are propbably lookin gofr blood cause of their losing streak, and you get portland to.

go nets

how did he break it on the alley oop? comeon yi your better then that!

Mina….no more speed for you tonight…
you just wrote a noble about tonight’s game…
so impressive

Yi was injured on a play in the third quarter as he defended against Bucks guard Michael Redd. Yi slipped a bit and was off balance, and as he tried to poke the ball away for a steal, he suffered the injury.http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/37374309.html

It was a solid game without Devin and we definitely saw some improvement from Najera and Simmons. It sucks about Yi’s finger but there’s no reason to panic or pronounce that we are “done.” I also wouldn’t be too sure that the Celtics are going to kill the Nets either. They’ve been on a losing streak and even lost to the Bobcats. Hopefully the Nets can keep that streak going.

It’s unfair to call out Dooling for that turnover, Ridnour reached in and slapped Dooling’s arm causing Dooling to lose control. Just another missed call by the officiating crew who difficulty all night. Nets probably benefited on some blown calls as well though.

This really hurts the team in my opinion. I felt a surge of positive play especially from Yi – who I can no longer call Stink-yi (lol) – and thought that with the return of Harris we would have a shot for the 5-8 seed. If Yi is out 3 weeks or more and Harris does not come back like ASAP we can kiss this goodbye. Ryan isn’t playing because of back problems (I believe) so we have 1 scoring power forward in Najera. Rod Thorn help us out buddy! We’re not that bad, but now we need to package Boone & Williams & Ager for somebody big who can score.

Also, when Boone was at the line with ~11 mins left in 4th, he missed 2 free-throws and I said to my friend… that’s the game… He almost blew it against Sacramento and if he made those… you know the drill.

So my synopsis: We need to trade Boone & Sean Williams, and Harris needs to get better NOW!!

Devin Harris seems to be really injury prone. He is always getting hurt with something new.

It is ironic. Yi finally starts to be consistent and he breaks his finger. Now he will be out for weeks maybe they are saying.

If they do not beat the Thunder we are in for a headache because Celtics, Blazers, Celtics. Although the Celtics have been sucking and you never know with the Blazers. Hopefully Devin will be ok.

Who is going to start in Yi’s place? Boone? Anderson? Najera?

Yi is officially out atleast a month with a broken pinky.

Devin will be back next game. They sat him out for precautionary reasons. With 2 days extra rest…I think he’ll be back for OKC.

The Nets played this game in spurts and were lucky to have a chance at the end. A few plays here and there cost them…but on the road, all you can ask for is to have a chance and they did without Devin.

Lets win the next game and hopefully beat some quality teams Devin next week.

i guarentee andersons gonna start because him and yi basically do the same things and he franks gonna have najera off the bench for anderson

@ ben

Is Anderson healthy enough to start? I think he is injured but I could be wrong.

Does anyone know for sure?

Finally We are not going to see Yi in a month thank god.no more dumb shoots and dumb fouls.

VC is flat out amazing,the dude can do anything if he really wants and is given the opportunity.

This loss is tough to swallow but the Nets played their heart out and I am proud.

Now lets go beat OK Thunder and get our confidence back before we the celtics and the blazers.

since yi will be out for 3 weeks who wil take over boone or najera. i want najera. and ofcourse just when yi is starting to play well he gets injured

harris better come back monday

@matt

He better come back monday? If the hamstring isn’t fully healed, then he should take his time. We’re not trying to lose him for a long period of time.

LMAO @ the Nets being done. This team is doing better than expected, we lost a tough one….chill out guys.

Sheesh….Yi breaks his fingers, and then Ridnour breaks Simmons’ ankles.

If we had played better in the 2nd quarter, we don’t need to fight back that hard in this game, and I had a hunch that other than Vince will make the three, and it came true.

I hate why Simmons slipped down in the last play, damn, we could beat them in the overtime, we were hot in the 2nd half.

I hate Devin Harris, he has to learn smarter, he didn’t need to play like it’s the end of the world. And that unnecessarily hustle would only hurt his body, and he got injured because of that.

Too bad, we could have been 19-18 now, and that’s different. Other bad news, Heat, Toronto, Chicago won tonight.

Devin Harris better come back soon.

Thorn needs 2 do something with boone and williams…get some d league quality guy or something….SOMETHING!…I mean jus when I thought boone could be a good player…kinda like an andrew bynum coming into his own after a couple seasons….but nooo I just think he sucks…he plays like he is scared…like he doesn’t know any mentals on basketball…this bball iq is very LOW!

NetsfanYES…i think your B ball IQ as a fan is very low…
first, you just compared Boone to a 7 footer with a lot more skills.
2nd, boone has a high IQ..he just can’t shoot free throws…
3rd…your making fun of somebody’s brain capacity in their own profession when you can’t even spell or have good consistent grammar…
lastly, how is a d league quality guy gonna help the nets right now?

If you want to creat oppurtunities for other Nets, then put the ball on VC’s hands. VC does that better than Harris.
Harris should only hog the ball if the play is designed for him to score; otherwise, let VC creates.

Play CDR…for more than 4 SECONDS…and 1 rebound.

boone cant shoot free throws, cant shoot, cant make a layup whether he’s open or not, doesnt have 1 post ave at all, he cant dribble, all his points, about 98% of them come off wide open pick n rolls dunks, or put back dunks. he cannot play in the 4th quarter if he cant shoot free throws, its that simple. its worst then a tunrover when you get two free thwos and you miss them. its such a momentum killer, and it also affects boone’s psych. plus, defensively, at the 5 he simply cant defend that position. at the 4 i think he would be a pretty good defender, an above average one probable, cause he has nice size for a 4 and he is pretty mobile too and athletic. but at the 5 the painty has no protection at all. but he is an excellent rebouder. all im saying is that he HAS to work on his free throws there are no excuses. he is a mutluii million dollar athlete and shooting FREE throws is the least he should be able to do. at leastget 1 of 2. the guy is shooting less than 35%. its 4 on 5 offemnsively when he’s on. he’s becoming the super jason collins. he’s muchhh better than collins, but he’s been getting consistent time for a couple of yrs bnow and by now he should be able to have at least a couple of post moves, some footwork down low, being able to finish at the rim, be able to use the backboard to score, find a way to be able to ciontrol the ball clamly in traffis if he cathes the ball down low and manuver himself to score, use a pump fake or something. he is not a 5 defensively, and he just isnt asnyhting offensively. he is gettuing frustarted because he gets lots of playing time, and he seems more than half the time being a liability out there. at least play him at the 4. the nets should get anopther center, a backup one. they wshould of got kwame, he is a bigger version of boone, a real center, and he at least has some moves and can score some. they shouldnt of signed nejara, trade boone. im telling you fans this guy has no upside, none at all. he hasnt shown anyhting offensively nothing since he’s been in the league. i think his value is at the highest now when some other team might think he’s young enough to have some potential and be a big body who can rebnound and defend, the 4. but he has no upside. i hope nobody takes all htis personnaly like im insutling you. this is just anobservation, anybody has the chlice to agree or disagree howvwer you want to, this is not personal. i feel that some fans get pesonally insulted and hurt when some fans criticze some p[layers or some coach. it is what it is. boone ios now officially a liability, offensively and defensively playing ther 5 more than half the time.

as for cdr, i dont know why hes not playing. this kid can play period. he wsaw that in paris when he lit up the place. he has size can druibble the ball, can shoot, and can flat out score. why not have him be vince’S PRIMARY BACKUP. dooling should ionly be hartris backup, and occasionaly play the two. develop tyhis kid he can play. why watse his ass on the bench. he can be useful, i think. he can become a legit scoring punch off the bench comething of a slashing hayes type. the more pl;aying time and touches some of these young guys like yi and brook proved with time patience touches and in both their cases luck, when boone got injured and it forced frank to start brook and borook just took what was rightfully his, and when boone came back it didnt affect himhe kept on his stellar play. wity yi he did have some amazing games when harris was in the lineup, but it was inconsistent as his touhes and his playing time. when the team had no choice but to give yi more touches bercause of harris’ absence which resulted in more PT cause his play dicated that, he got better, unfortunetly for him and the nets the injury came at the absolute worst time. he was just looking like he turn the corner, he looked lime a potential a;l;star, and he looked like a better player than richard jefferson. and im sooo positiver that when hearris returns and yi returns too and they are both together in the lineup both harris and frank will make a counciouis effort the play some through yi abnnd have be the focak part of the offense once in a while. i feel that yi really socres that 20 pts effortlessly, the game comes easy to him it seems. the kid scores in a variety of ways, whether shooting the deep 2 or 3, he can take players off the dribble with left or right, but i think thats the part of his offensive game he can get better on and he will get better on. he’s a really good slasher to the rim. he’s a;sp a good passer, many times you see him make some nice difficult back door cut passes. he actually has a post game, but hasnt had too many opportunities to show them off. he has excellent footwork, and is tall enough to turn arounfd and shoot anytime and get a clear shot off. he also can fake you up and inder and has great athleticism and can dunk on you. and he isnt that bad defensively. fans say that he cant defend, i dont see that. the guy can defend very well knows positioning protects the rim well with brookk, and blocks and alters shots. whther he’s still 21 ,22,23, or 24 reaally doesnt make that big a deifference. yi is a phisical specimen. there isnt a 7 footer in the league with his agiliogty and atghleticism put together. he seems like he can play for a while. he’s still young, and if he’s 24 the nets have yi in his p[riome for at least 10 yrs. all i know is he looks more skilled and more talented than rj. really frank was on rj’s nutts last year and changed hos whole offense to star rj in the mtoion garbage offense. all it did is kill the rest of the team offensively. they were the worst team offensively in the league, while the year before with kirstic and rj injured they were more than decent offensively. now in lmillwakee, his diffencincies are showing more. tonight he coulc\dnt finish around the rim, doesnt know bhow to use the glass well. he was in the middle, t\didnt know when to shoot or drive. and on defense he got burnt by the 3 point line shooting the lioghts out on him or vince taking him off the dribble. i personally like rj. i kind of miss him here in njj. he gave the team a nasty side. but if you think of it in a basketbaklll sense, he wasnt worth the sakary he was getting paid, his salary went trhough 2010. and he and vince were too redundant and he would of got in thw way of harris’s development, brook’s development, through vc h\whio he and harrios set up most onf these guys something rj cant do. and the fcat that they got yi for him plus an expiring contract for the 2010 season who’s kind of coming to his own plus he’s a good complement to vc and harris with his 3 point shooting. and quitye frankly as i was saying i think is already almot AS GOOD AS RJ, AND HES ALREADY MORE SKILLED AND TALENTED.these nets look soo good in a couple of yrs. i think they would only trade vc for a package that would knock them off their feet. vc is actually vital to the young players development and to the teams identity, he’s one of the big foundations this team is cuyrrently being beuilt on and vc can carry the load and at the same time hekop develop the youngstes and make the veterans better,; kristic, wright for all he was worth, anderson, lopez, yi, harris,boone, sean(when hom, and vc are pick n rolling it and feeding off eachother, bosh, peterson, alvin williams, moore, simmons, hayes, dooling is playing his ball of his career alongside vc. it just seems that he finds a way to get players around him play at their peak and best. the rj trade is definitly looking better for the nets. i rather have yi and his salary than rj and his salary. and as a player i rather have yi come next year and this year their stats are soimilar. they both average tabout the same field goal %, rj getting much more touches, ansd yio being the better reboundr, and defensively theyre about the same weith yi having more potential defernsively and offensively.

mucxhhhhhhhhhh respect to thorn and kiki for breaking down and building back up this team with onkly vc as the rermaining real player. boone and sean are not really foundations for this team, even though i know fior sure if sean gets his act right, and finds the spark he had for about 3 mths last year when he was just an awesome pplayer with p8undits even comparing him to bosh one time,. but to make those awesome trades for harris and yi as centerpiece withall the other perks they got with it like 1st round picks, with potentially having a lottery in it, anderson, dooliong, cap space for a max signing in 2010. ad the way theyd rafted together rod and kiki tthey got lucky nd super lucky with their picks. lopez looks like the 4th best player period in the draft behind rose, mayo, and beasly. but i think besides rose lolopez could even be more of an impact player then mayo and beasley because of his vastst skills and talent and the position he plays. i would go as far as to say he is probably already the secound best center in the east ahead of bogut, oneil, wallace, and okafor. he ishas mroe skl\kills than all these guys. he has the whole package. cna score in and out, rebound, block shots defvend, and is prertty artheltic and mobile for his huge frame. what a steal. i think anderson was probably the best player at 21 with george hill and mario chalmers, and probably donte greene(watch him in a coouple of yrs). and cdr is a 1st rounder period. he can ball, and wil;l be a vitalpart of the nets team soon.

well i hope you akll enjoyed reading this. again let me stress please dont take any crticism personally, these players arnt family to most of us. i believe anybody has the right to speak their mind, agree or not, jusrt dont sound like youre sounding hurt by it. and i hope you really enjoyed reading this novle netballs.

mina, great post.

Can you tell me what the Net should do after Yi got injured ??? They are 18 and 19 , can they go to the playoffs? Will they beat the declining Celtics next week ?

I am so nervous .. I expected they went a 4 winning streak against bucks, thunders, grizzlies, and kings, but damn, they lost to bucks, it makes me feel really bad today … damn it, they should have won this game, what should the Nets do ?

Maybe yi is better than Rj, but he got injured, damn it … they can go to playoffs or not..?

Don’t worry about Yi’s injury. Opie has a ton of small guys who can shoot it.

Boone has been playing well as of late 8 rebounds in 13 Mins is not a bad feat at all. Boone’s D is soild.

Calm down boys… Calm down. Its a long season…. now you guys that wanted Yi benched can see how the Nets play without him. Carter picking up the Point just proves how great a player he is… he is maturing into a leadership position, something he shunned earlier in his career. It is interesting to see this team develop. Too bad Anderson has the bad back, Yi injury would have meant more minutes for him…

Great game. Great coaching. Frank and Co get the most out of their players. They play hard and are so much more mentally tough than last years bunch.

Let’s not lose sight of the goal this season: develop players. Yi, Lopez, now, if he is healthy, this is a chance for Anderson. Wow, wouldn’t it be great if in 4 weeks he’s playing at a high level and making Frank wonder who the starter should be going forward? If his back is ready, I want to see him play. But I suspect he’s not healthy and Hassel will get lot’s of time and they will go small. Boone can’t play PF – Hayes can.

Well i think Boone can play the 4 in some cases. Boone and Lopez could be good.

They would have won that game with DH healthy or with a 3d PG. In the 2d Q, they couldn’t do anything on offense with Hassell playing PG. Even if Bogut had played, it would have helped us because their best weapon after the first quarter was Villanueva matched against our C’s. If Bogut had played, our C’s would have had more traditional matchups and Najera etc would have guarded Villanueva.

Real impressive game by VC and the swing combo of Simmons/Hayes did their job well too. KD was fine as a backup PG forced to play the whole game, the real problem was the drop off from him to the 3d string PG, Hassell. Yi was good on offense and bad on D, look at his plus minus, the worst on the team. Lopez had a weak game against weak competition and Boone going 1-4 at the line, well, that turned out to be a huge factor at the end.

What’s up with Swift? Maybe he can fill in. One thing is we’re showing we’re pretty deep and versatile. A lot of youth but the future looks good.

Anderson does the same thing as Yi so it’s time for him to step up and be a little more consistent.

We still need a back up point guard. But all in all. they are doing a good job and most games are entertaining. Nothing like last years team that would get blown out if they fell behind by double digits.

My guy VC was incredible as usual. Superstar with a HUGE S across his chest. First let me bow down and salute mina. The girl has a lot to say and you better had listen to her great “commentary”. Like Granny use to say, “You may learn something darnit” hehehe!

The team is playing well. We should get behimnd them. Hayes, Simmons, Yi, and Dooling played great. I agree with mina I don’t understand how the ball on that last turnover was in Dooling hand to create when VC was finding everybody in the building. That irks me.

@ Opie’s Uncle

I have no idea what’s up with Swift. For Christmas I got backstage passes to the Bulls game and during the 3rd quarter I went to get a drink and Swift was chilling in the back in a suit. I haven’t even seen him on the bench. He’d be good to fill in but I don’t know what’s up with him.

Time to make some trades/cuts so we can shore up a 3rd PG and get another big while Yi is out.

Ager
SWAT
Swift (unless we play him)
Hassell

Are all expendable.

Personally I would love to see a trade like this:

Douby
Moore

for

Swift
Ager/SWAT

Douby could be a 3rd PG (more a shooter) but still another small guard to give Dooling a rest.
I would love to see Moore’s intensity back on the team and him hitting wide open 18 footers.

If we could somehow expand the trade to land D.Green or J.Salmons (add Hassel, pick, CDR etc…) even better.

mina rocks!

VC is a pure shooter/a pure PG that creates for the good of the team. He could be out there like other superstars jacking up shots. After hearing him being interviewed by the Bucks broadcasters let me know that Jersey has one of the classiest player to ever lace up shoes. The Bucks broadcasters asked him a question about Devin Harris making the AllStar team he
said “I wouldn;t mind staying home watching him play in the allstar game because he so deserves it” Man I got chills hearing a professional player on his level elevating another player. Someone needs to tell VC that he is just as deserving or more. This is his best season ever yet he still lift up another teammate. Great things tend to happen to people with humilty like VC.

mina done came back from the dead. Love you mina.

I sure do like reading your novel. So well prepared.

Mina once again on the money, you should really be a contributor for Netsdaily, your observations are great.
Totally agree about Boone, we all want to root for him and for him to be good but his defense has to be stellar if he’s so limited offensively, to warrant floor time. I do think that CD-R is still behind development wise and Frank can only develop so many young players at the same time. Personally I’d rather see him focusing on Yi and Brook, which he has, then throw too many young guys in at once and we get burned. The veterans are vital to these players development, so there has to be a delicate balancing act which I think Frank has done a nice job of. We’ve competed and beat some very tough teams this year all while developing essentially an entirely new, young team. Leaning on Dooling has proved to be great for the Nets, and in due team CDR wll get his shot, and this time next year Thorn and Kiki will be seen even more as geniuses for assembling this young, exciting nucleus. Hopefully it will wipe out the Antoine Wright and Hassan Adams picks from our memory, by then Boone and Swat will be gone too.

Frank is so worried about his job that he does’nt want to even give the rooks any lateb game playing time.When i think of Frank i think of one of those old cartoons where the boat springs a leak and someone plugs the hole only for another leak to spring up.Run a tite ship Frank!!!

Why are we so worried about not having Yi. He had just started playing well the last week and a half. He is not going to make that much of a difference in the long scheme of things. The team will be fine as long as Devin comes back, Vince stays healthy and Brook continues to progress.

YAY Yi’s GONE@!!!!!

WE CAN FINALLY PLAY WITHOUT YI’s 0 DEFENSIVE IQ AND PLAY WITH SOME CONSISTEN DEFENSE FOR ONCE!

VC was really impressive. Those 14 assits show you how a great team player he is and how underrated his passing ability is. He should be our primary ballhandler when Devin returns, because he involves everbody, its not coincidence we got our two season high mark in assits as a team, with VC delivering 12 and 14 dimes in each of those games. Dont take me wrong, Im not critizing Devin, but hes more a scorer than a distritubtor, even though he has had some good assist numbers, the other guys have gotten more involved with VC creating.

I feel bad for Yi, he was playing pretty well. Im mad because of this loss, guys never gave up, no Devin, then no Yi, they still fight back and had a chance until the very last second of the game. We could have win this one tho.