well im proud that we stayed in it and didn’t get blown away. can’t ask for more than a competitive game.. hopefully we’ll get our first win against the sixers.

I give the team a lot of credit for hanging around. Nobody thought they were even going to do that.

im not giving nets credit, celtics were off tonight and tired. it is not r defense. and when u think we have a chance ray allen starts making buckets. yay were now 0-7.

Uummm can we say the “worst start for this francise in nba history” i know ya heard marv say that…smh i’m glad i jumped ship when carter and ryan left. Another game you guys could have won, but Lawrence Frank lost it and got out-coached again. Didn’t even have half the starters for the game and it was close and they couldn’t bang this out on a night the celtics were awful? Just embarrassing.

I won’t be surprised lopez DOES NOT re-sign with the nets, because lebron is definitely NOT coming here.

Frank did a good job tonight.

i can say this if we don’t beat sixers on wednesdy were going 0-10

At least we played hard against a good team. I actually thought we had a chance to win. Boone missed two easy shots down the stretch to cut into the lead, and we did get stops too. I thought Skip played good, and Brook Lopez did good too.

atleast we’re not getting blown out by the bucks..lol

Yeah can’t complain. We were in the game…If only Boone could finish offensively he would be pretty good. I think it’s clear when players start returning that najera nor simmons should get time. Brooks shot was crazy good

yeah knicks r horrible lol

Thank you Frank! I think there was a reason why Simmons and Hassell deserved more playing time than Terrence.

keep saying “we were in the game” bull..stop saying things like that so u guys can sleep better at night. stop the excuses..these guys are being paid well to play and they are NOT performing..period

The Nets held far longer and better than anyone expected. It’s not just the Celtics were bad, it was just the Nets, with 4 starters down, wanted the game. Now if anyone expected a win, then go to pet your unicorn. A win wasn’t possible, a good fight, improbable, but that happened.

Rafer Alston – Needs to watch his passes. Sometimes, he still thinks he’s in his streetball days, and as a basketball coach, I cannot believe such a pro continues to pass every single pass with one hand. Most of the passes were directed badly after tossing one-handed outers when caught in a difficult situation.

Terence Williams – I’m liking this guy more and more. OK, he makes mistakes, he’s a rooke, but he’s got some attitude. He doesn’t give a damn if it’s Garnett in front of him. The way he dribbles the ball, he reminds me of MJ, his attitude reminds me of MJ. The way he jumps to get his rebound, the way he dribbles into the defenders will tell you one thing. That guy’s got some attitude. It’s only a matter of when his skills and experience catch up with his atittude. He’s gonna be a star, an allstar, just wait a few years. You’ll see.

Trenton Hassell – Today’s performance was on the low side. His defence suffered, and he took a lot of difficult shots in the offence. He’s agressive, and I love that about him. He wants the ball more than anything else, and that makes him a hustle player.

Eduardo Najera – See T. Hassell

Sean Williams – I was surprised that after his first more-than-satisfactory outing, we didn’t see more of him later in the game. Najera wasn’t there today, so I expected SWILL to be put in the court for more minutes. He’s not a lost case.

Brook Lopez – Brook is doing exactly what the Nets need him to do. His outisde shot is becoming deadly, and he’s moving backwards every game. Don’t be surprised if he starts shooting three pointers soon. Until now, he didn’t improve his rebounding from last year, and should fight more for his rebounds, to get at least 9-10.

Josh Boone – We do not need Boone to go 20-20. We need Boone to rise up to the occasion just like he did today. He was agressive, but he missed too many shots from under the baskets, which admittedly, were easy shots. Goes for the rebound much better than Boone, but fails to be any danger from outside the key.

Bobby Simmons – Finally, he scored a couple of treys. This guy can do better than 10 points, especially in such a situation. He’s slow, and he looks bored. I expect him to be better. Unsatisfactory.

Just one last thing. Don’t be too hard on the Nets, we missed 4 starters.

Alston stinks. I blame everything on him. Careless mistakes the entire game. If he is going to look up while dribbling, he needs to practice that in the gym first. GAH!

On the other hand, great D. The Celtics basically took 90% of their shots fading away from distance. KG is pathetic. A power forward should NEVER have a FG% that low. if your that tall.. take it to the rim!

Nets played there hearts out I am proud of them

but….

Eduardo Najera your pathetic….look at you…YOUR PATHETIC

Alston got some good buckets, but at the same time he’s sloppy with the ball….And he took lots of bad shots/forced shots towards the end of the game.

We were in it till the end of the forth quarter. What was different? LFRANK didn’t have too many subsitutions to make, so he just let them play. Brook played well, except for two many long jumpers. Overall, turnovers killed us, and the real Trenton Hassell showed up shooting 1-7. Our team is not in good enough shape to play 7 players, many of who don’t usually play 38 or 44 minutes a game. But we were in the game, till the last part of the 4th. A few less stupid turnovers and poor passes and we could have won this game. That’s four winable games out of seven games. What happens when he get our team back?

Dear Oldnetsfan,

Do you honestly think anyone, missing 4 starters, could have won against the Celtics? Not even the Magic, not even the Lakers. Nets are rebuilding, and 4 starters missing is a huge blow for team like that.

New Jersey Nets is starting to sound a lot like New Jersey Mets cuz of all these freakin injuries…

 Now those idiots who said we wud be a 20 win team if healthy will think their rite and get cocky like dave allasandewroas or watever that guys name is

@ OLDNETSFAN

Stop with the negativity, they may not be the best team in the nba but at least they have pride and we support this team because we are Nets fans, no matter how good or how bad they are playing.

WE just cant get that ball to roll in on big jumpshots or that foul call that any of the celtics would get. B.S. refs (especially at the end)

Yeah najera sucks we should only play him to get trade him

Thank u Andrew. I dont think OLDNETSFAN will be saying this when the Nets are championship contenders with lebron and bosh.

Najera should be told to NEVER take a 3 again.
Boone should be told to NEVER shoot within 2 feet of the hoop.
Alston should be told to NEVER handle a basketball again.

That said, I’m so proud of these guys, They are fielding a semi pro team against a championship team and making it close.
Hats off.
No quit in these guys, just not enough real guys.

@ the twelveyearold diehard nets fan

Yeah you got that right lol

I don’t think I saw the same game the Frank saw. But what does SWAT have to do to buy minutes in the game. I believe that the defense was tight with SWAT in the game. HE did nothing special outside of his game. HE did what was expected rebounded, blocked, and made a few shots.

@ Andrew

yea sure good luck.

and @ twelveyearolddiehardnetsfan u need to wake up.

@ OLDNETSFAN

If you really want to abandon the team, Please abandon this site too.

The 8 guys we had played hard and did all I could have reasonably asked. It would be easy to pack it in. Esp. with all the expiring contracts.. BUT they play HARD and with PRIDE, unlike tonight’s oppoenents a couple of years ago when they tanked on purpose and unlike the Knicks. Unless Lawrence Frank could somehow shape shift into 1996 Michael Jordan and chose not to do so, I don’t know how you hang this loss on him. He is actually keeping guys motivated, unlike other similarly situated teams. LET’S GO NETS!

and please GO dude.

relax people…this is a rebuilding year…why bother to get mad when you are missing half your team…in rod I trust!….hes the man..he knows what he is doing….stop complaining…we don’t need to win games this year…we need to let our youth get experience and get a high lottery pick so that way when we add to big pieces in free agency we’ll be set…..STOP THE COMPLAINING..GIVE FRANK A BREAK THIS YEAR..if they suck with next year you have a reason to be mad…this year there is no point….LETS GO NETS!

Lebron and Bosh are not pipe dream, IF we get to Brooklyn. And that’s strictly an off-the-court thing. We’ve got more $$$ than anyone and would have an owner willing to spend it. Lebron will end up with one of 3 teams, and we’re 1 of the 3. And with all our $, we would def get at least 1 top tier FA, barring almost everyone staying put, which I doubt will happen.

We tried hard against a contender. However I’m tired of seeing this team somewhat compete and just let it go at the end. I’m talking about past few games now. We keep losing key pieces and this is getting ridiculous. Should we sign some 1yr deals? I mean, this is just pathetic. If Najera is even in your option in last 20 second of close game(last one), that is just pathetic. I don’t know who can possibly come in and make this team worse. Do something. Show us that you are trying while going for the big ones next year.

Nice outing. Although the Celtics were not the Celtics tonight, we hung in there and lost the game due to our 23 turnovers. The turnovers were do to sloppy passing not the Celtics playing good defense.

Tonight proved that Trenton Hassell should drive to the basket rather than shoot. He creates opportunities when he drives to the basket.

Josh Boone is more comfortable at the PF position than at the center position. Nice game Boone.

Brook should stay away from the bounce pass or atleast whip it down much harder because I could have stolen many of those balls. Watch a couple of Jason Kidd’s old Nets highlights. All around good game for Brook. I like his 15 ft. shot, however, his success will be directly related to him learning how to post up the defender.

AGAIN, Terrence Williams should be a starter.

even though we lost, i saw something that i havent seen in past games.
the Nets played with alot of HEART, made alot of HUSTLE plays, and had really good CHEMISTRY.
thats all i could ask for.
GO NETS! [:

I will give credit to the Nets for competing against the Celtics until the last few minutes. There are a lot of things that we can learn from these past few games. Like who can be a part of this team in the future, and who probably wont be.

Even though Alston scored 20 points tonight, I thought he played horribly with all of those turnovers. As the person who handles the ball more than anyone else, you have to take care of the ball.

Brook is getting deadlier with his outside game, and not so much with his inside game. I feel like he’s force to take those outside shots, because no one would pass him the ball when he is posting up in the inside. So he has to go out of his way to set a high screen, and get passes from there. That’s how I see it.

I thought Boone and T-Williams did well on the defensive end, but not so much on the offense. If Boone could’ve made those easy layups we might’ve won.

Sean did ok in his limited time on the court, not great, but not really bad.

For the rest of the group on the court I thought they played like usual, crap. I doubt these people will return next year.

I feel like our players are too selfish in that they care more about their own scores than to try and set up one of your teammates for a better higher percentage shot. I think the coach should make it mandatory that every person has to have at least 1 or 2 assists during each game. I think this will help us with our shot selection.

Hope we at least will get some players back by our next game.

wat you people worried about we going 75-7 !!!!!!!!!!!!

@ vince we might be sixers on wed but after that we not beating magic or heat and then we have west trip

San Antonio Parker is down maybe they can trade Alston for Blair and money.

@ JuliusIrving – Not happening, because who would take over at point guard if Terrence Williams got injured or suspended in that case?

@ JuliusIrving – oh, and where does it say that Parker is out for a few games?

Since team is tanking, why don’t we try this trade?

Simmons, Sean, Najera, Dooling for T-mac’s expiring contract.

I don’t believe in T-mac either, I just believe in 7 more million we can cut next year. We will be left with all free agent but Harris, Yi, Lee, Lopez, and T-will.

Yes we will lost more game, but can’t possibly lose more than 82 games. so..

Losing team won’t attract big names? Celtics story says otherwise. Garnett was convinced after Ray signed. Knowing there will be 2 max guys or 3 decent guys might convince some people.

Even if it doesn’t work out, at this point what have we got to lose?

@ oldnetsfan
we don’t need your negativity. We were proud of our guys even tho they lost because even tho they were out matched in regards to talent and numbers .. They still fought hard until the end and that is respectable. Also, how can anyone blame frank? Are u guys for real? Look at the available players he had then look at the celtics… Come on:

knicks r horrible but they have actually won a game, and have a lot better shot at lebron than the nets.

I was proud of these guys tonight. For the second game in a row they fought to the bitter end instead of bowing down

Who else here thinks that if we had our full roster in there tonight we would have been blown out?

I think so. There’s certain guys on the Nets that don’t give a damn about what happens on the floor and two of them were in suits tonite. The 8 guys that suited up and played the Celtics for 4 quarters, aside from CDR, were the guys that give a care about what happens to this team.

Kudos to the Nets. We are 0-8 and i see a lot of pride and professionalism coming from the guys that have played the last two games.

@ mills

LeBron could surpise us and sign with the Nets…you never know what could happen.

avery said lebron will sign with the nets
wow jodie meeks!!!!!!!! he is great i know he was going to be good
lets get wall first pick

Lebron James has yet to win a championship. There are many ways to a championship.

Now is not the time to abandon the franchise. One of two things will happen: a billionaire will buy the team and keep them in the area or the franchise will abandon its fans.

@ oldnetsfan,

you said you abandoned ship right? so why are you still here? you must not have much going on in your life if you’re coming on here making comments about a team you arent even a fan of. sounds like a lotta spare time to me, get off this site and find something else to do with your time. go have fun somewhere.

@ Mills

If the Nets are moving to Brooklyn and their majority owner is the 40th richest guy in the world who loves to spend money on basketball teams, the only thing that makes the Knicks look any more appealing than the Nets right now is the fact that they play at the Garden. Do you think LBJ distinguishes between 1 win on a healthy crappy team vs. no wins on a rebuilding team with 1 healthy starter?

@ oldnetsfan

Since you’re no longer a Nets fan, why do you feel the need to come here and post? Don’t you have a life? a hobby? Perhaps you’d prefer to post on a site concerning a team of which you ARE a fan. The 7 guys (unless you count Sean’s 4 or so minutes) that played tonight – only 1 of whom was a starter – showed a lot of heart against a healthy Celtics team.

And why are people making excuses for the overpaid Celtics? An off night? Are you kidding me?! KG hit 3 of 13, Ray Allen scored 4 points over the first 3 quarters. With the salaries they get, if these guys were on the Nets, you wouldn’t be making excuses for them. They would be verbally tarred and feathered, with all sorts of trades proposed. An “off night” is when half of your team (and 80% of your starters) is too sick or injured to suit up and the half that can play is worn out from the game the night before. The Celtics played the night before, as well, but with a full roster.

The Nets didn’t always play with heart. Remember the “glass jaw” days? At least they’re out there fighting, even when no one on the planet thought they could win this game. They made it fun. So there.

with only 8 players, we cant do much right now…

ill give frank a break until all players are healthy again and we go at least 0-3.

so far he cant win with 2 men (Lopez and Twill)

still 0-7

Maybe we can become the 2nd team in NBA history to have both a double-digit losing streak and a double-digit winning streak in the same season. Maybe…

http://www.nba.com/suns/history/9697_recap.html

By the end of the year, Nets fans will appreciate all these early losses. Until Prokhorov takes over, all the losses can be blamed on the Ratner era.

Once Proky takes over, Nets could play close to .500 ball and still be eligible for a top 4 pick, while also being attractive to a top FA – best of both worlds.

There will have to be at least one good trade before deadline – these games in Nov./Dec. are Not for Winning, but for Showcasing our players and developing the ones we want to keep – especially TWill.

Keep Losing at this time!

Jerry – I agree with you. The fact that we are piling up the losses is not a bad thing when you consider that so many of our players are injured. We aregetting closer to the top 3 pick. Best case scenario – we get better as the year goes on, but when the core guys get healthy, i.e. Harris, Lee, Yi. When you really think about it there is not much to gain by winning a few games with Bobby Simmons, Rafer, and Trenton. They will all be gone next year. I do want to see Harris, Lee, Yi, Brook, CDR, and TWill play well together, develop some chemistry and a winning attitude. If all goes perfect, we could have a strong finish to the season, finish with like the 5th worst record, and still have the ping pong balls go our way to get a top 3 pick. I still think we are situated OK to have a good story to tell to the free agents. As far as the Knocks goes, they suck just as badly as we do if not worse, they have no draft pick next year, and they have to renounce the rights to Lee, Harrington, and Nate in order to sign the big free agent. So that team is bare. There are better days ahead.

atleast we have our first round pick this year unlike the team across the river

I guarantee you. You’ll only see this kind of reasoning here. Go to the forums of another bad team in the league, and find me similar logic in the fans’ posts there.
There’s “nothing to gain” by winning a few games. CLASSIC!!!

Is Allen Iverson the answer?
  
C—Brook Lopez
PF—Josh Boone
SF—Terrence Williams
SG—Devin Harris/Keyon Dooling/Courtney Lee/CDR—anybody healthy here?—Rafer Alston
PG—Allen Iverson
  
The Nets would have three ball-handlers in the lineup, with two shot blockers and three rebounders up front.

I think Frank deserves an extension.

I really can understand all the insults, it sickens me as a fan. Everyone played hard and gave it there all. Celtics are one of the best teams in the league and even on a bad night should have breezed through us, but they couldn’t. With just 8 men availble – and lets be honest, a mjority of them role players – we gave them a game. How often do you think this lines up ever hit the court in practice.

A great effort by everyone, and that includes Frank.

Wow, they played well! This is a hungry and proud team. I like them. I think T-Will is going to be a special player. His driving at the end was assume and when he leaps, even for his jumper, wow. I reminded of Miami in Wade’s rookie year. How they started horribly and then came on like crazy – T-will can carry us like that. I think this team is better defensively w/o CDR and Yi. They are so much more competitive defensively. Ray Allen is awesome. If we just had a go to guy like that!

At least the Nets were in it. The team was depleted but they had some fight in them. I can’t fault the effort of the players the past two games. They really tried. They kept close to the Celtics but in the end, Celtics just had more talent and weapons. You can’t really expect Iraq to win a war against the US. The Nets are missing a lot of weapons. All I ask is that they have a chance to win the game in the end.

@ oldnetsfan

Thanks for the over the top negative post. Most posters have been negative of late (not surprising at 0-7) but nothing brings out the true fan like a non-fan badmouthing the team. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”

And Lebron is coming. He knows talent and he sees it in our young team (quoted about liking Devin, you know he will love playing with Brooke and what’s not to like about TWILL – throw in young athletes like CLEE and CDR and you have a talented and FUN team). With or without a second time line FA, Lebron is coming….well assuming we get the Russian owner….and the new stadium…and a top line coach. If this happens there is no way he is going to the Knicks.

Why rebuild someone else’s legacy when you can create your own in the most exciting city in the world! The Lebron sweepstakes will come down to Cleveland and the Brooklyn NETS.

@ diehardNFFLbarnone Says:
 It only says Parker went out of the game due to sprained ankle. I know last summer he was out for the same reason. Most likely he will not play a lot of games for Spurs and they will be willing to get a point guard. And this is the right time to get a good PF even potentially good without too much cost. With extra money maybe we can get one that is a good ballhandler like even Marcus williams or some of our Summer aspirants and put somebody on the injured list to accomodate them.
    Who cares who is the PG now, I would say the next 10 games we might just win one or two, regardless we have a PG or not. I really don’t care. The NETS is pathetic but for the sake of future once everyone get healthy we will be set better.

@Popik
Keep Iverson away from this Nets team!
He already took down Denver and Detroit with Memphis next.

@croc
The Nets situation is different from other losing teams due to pending sale to potentially a wealthier “Mark Cuban type” owner, and move to Brooklyn.
Actually, I recall Boston fans/announcers feeling good about losses ahead of pending top draft pick a few years ago.
Also, when David Robinson went down with an injury, that event marked the beginning of a dynasty with the Tim Duncan pick for San Antonio.
In short, that is a lot of croc! (couldn’t resist)

Iverson is NOT the answer (well besides in his nickname)! He adds a couple of wins and heaps of drama and conflict. He doesn’t want to be a role player on a rebuilding team. That’s the problem in Memphis. Same thing here, and also until we get our benevolent bolshevic benefactor, we’re not going to take that kind of contract.

And no PG would mean maybe the most embarassing performances in NBA history, which would be bad.

With the Triple B coming and such a tenacious showing, some of these guys might be back next year (it could happen).

Sorry, Jerry! Those teams were not 0-7, and none of those “oh let’s lose a few more games to get a higher pick” ideas take place at the BEGINNING OF THE SEASON for a WINLESS team.
It makes better sense that some Nets fans were rooting for some losses at the end of last season for a better lottery position. But to make perfect peace with a winless record at the beginning of the season was one of a kind.
And I have no idea why an impending sale would make the NEts more excusable for loosing, and I do not know how that’d explain the logic of “there is nothing to gain by winning some games” for a winless team. Are you saying because other loosing teams are not anticipating a new owner, which is why their fans do not make excuse for loosing? It doesn’t make sense.

Iverson is exactly what this team needs. We can’t have enough PGs that don’t like to pass, play defense, and care more about individual accolades instead of doing what the team needs to achieve victory.

LOL i cant wait to laugh at the nay sayers when and if Lebron comes here. It’ll be funny how everyone comes back. If you think about it. What was cleveland before 2003? The same as the nets in 2009. A team with little or no potential and no chance at even cracking the top 8. Lebron has a heart and a mind. It isnt all about the money with this guy. He led them to the Finals. No one else on the team in 2007 were anywhere near all star calibur. I believe he’ll be here. there’s no one else worth it. Lebron like Jay-z anyways Holla!

Josh Boone goes for 8-12! Wow, that’s nice. I like him and Brook together. That’s a lot of dude down there on the blocks.

To get a win, Nets.