Yi played well. But what the Nets miss is what Oklahoma has which is a stud that can take over a game. The Nets need all of their players to play well and that hasn’t happened yet this season. These games are hard to watch!

What did kiki do to YI! Was Frank that bad of coach?

Yi is the only bright side.

This team really sucks, they can’t score at some point.

I feel bad for Yi for not getting 30+ points. Nets guards were horrible. Devin is talking leader but he should have known that Yi has a chance to get 30 but didn’t make any plays for him down the line.

Why they pass the ball across the court is a mystery to me. Nets offense runs better with Rafa than with Devin.

Decimated and Hammered by Durant

wow ive never seem someone in the Nets, besides Carter, scoring +40 pts. Well i think harris did once but never again

Nets need a defensive stopper.

Kevin Duran had 40 points!

Harris knows to pass now, but he can’t stop Bayless, Westbrook, Aaron Brooks.

yi played awesome 3 games in arrow. he is attacking basket and showing intensity. on the other hand BROOK IS A BIG BABY, HE LIKES TO CRY ON THE BENCH WHEN THINGS DON’T GO HIS WAY. i think he is overated. where is swat? i thought it was about player development tony battie sucks. twill sucks 2. harris was alirght

If you told me that Hassell shot 6-8, Yi shot 11-20 and Lee shot 7-13, then I would tell you that the Nets won the game. Watching loss after loss is heartbreaking. There are some good individual performances, but as a team, we can’t put it together. Yi apparently has the green light to shoot whenever he wants.

It’s good to see Nenad back playing well. I always liked that guy.

Kevin Durant is just too big and skillful. But with Yi showing up that’s something to watch. without him the game could had been over just on first half.

Lopez is Jason Collins. Just awful. And he is a cry baby who pouts and silks. Grow up Brook! Decide what kind of player you are! Nice move Rod with Kristic, exactly what the Nets could use someone who can hit a jumper… And if it wasn’t for some Hassle circus shots this would have been worse. Just terrible, except Yi.

Guys I love Yi, but its clear he cannot play Defense at all..I say they work with him on that.
But Yi is awesome now, he is helping us..
WHERE IS HAYES?

The Nets need John Wall now. Period, no one could save team other John Wall.

Because James, Wade won’t come.

Before anyone gets carried away w/Yikes’ career high 29 points, let’s not forget about his MINUS 17 and the plethora of dunks he gave up to Durant.

Brook was equally atrocious on D. In fact I haven’t seen anyone give up on as many plays (on offense, defense, even while awaiting a rebound on a missed foul shot) as Brook did tonight. Absolutely pathetic. Trenton Hassel was their lone bright spot, guess that says it all.

Sulks. Man I am down on Lopez! No more talk about him as All Star! Nonsense, All Stars don’t get eaten up by Nick Collisin!!

Outrebounded by how many? Time for a trade, come on Proky this team needs BASKETBALL players!

yi 13ppg/7rpg/0.3apg(!)/0.8bpg/46%fg/88%ft/44%3pt/31mpg
rj 13ppg/4rpg/2.5apg/0.2bpg/46%fg/70%ft/36%3pt/31mpg

not bad! ;)

No defense, no rebound, the second was awful to watch. if we keep playing like this, we will end up breaking the record no team can touch it again.

Lopez let Nenad Krstic became Larry Bird II. Although Harris is bad on defensive end, so is Lopez.

How could they play so well for 3 quarters and do just about everything wrong in the fourth! Everyone contributed to the debacle in the 4th. Bad defense, bad offense, no rebounding – just awful!!! Just stand there and let the other team dunk on you, layups on you. Just embarassing!

I also hate Brook’s demeanor. “TheBurgerking” is right, he is always sulking out there on the floor. The guy is slow off the floor and doesn’t have basketball quickness, which is while i feel he’ll never be great. Smaller players are quicker to the ball than him which is why he gets outrebounded. Yi’s return was supposed to open things up for Brook but for some reason it has had the opposite effect.

What’s wrong with you guys? No one else is down on Lopez?? Did we see the same game?

Break it down:

CDR: DNP, we need him back for some scoring down the stretch of games.
J. Hayes: DNP, when are we getting him back?! he doesnt seem too excited to get back on the floor. at least he can hit some shots. his defense wont be 2 good after being out so long.
J. Boone: DNP, his absence really showed in how NICK COLLISON, yeah, NICK COLLISON, took us to school 2nite with 11 & 10.
S. Williams: DNP, I doubt he would’ve made a difference. Would’ve been niec to see during garbage time last 5 mins.
T. Williams: WHAT. HAPPENED. Didn’t score, passed the ball decently but still turned it over several times. Took a few bad jump shots. Defense was atrocious. Passed off when he had an open driving layup. Needs to show up more than 1 out of every 9 games.
B. Simmons: Could’ve helped with our jump-shooting, dont know why he played. wouldve been awful on “D”
E. Najera: DNP, trade him for a bag of Chex Mix
R. Alston: AWFUL. AWFUL. AWFUL. That one play where he came flying down the court after a turnover just to take a wild pull-up jumper – and brick it – epitomizes his game.
K. Dooling: A non-factor. Played for 21 mins and was 1-5. Did not have any energy tonight.
T. Battie: An all-around decent job. Filled in decently for Boone.
B. Lopez: He’s much better than that. He’s obviously breaking down mentally. It’s apparent that Yi’s reappearance has diminished his game physically – and maybe has hurt him mentally too
D. Harris: 3-8 from the field, but played decently defensively and had some nice drives. This summer, this guy NEEDS to work on his jump-shot. It is AWFUL.
T. Hassell: Very good job. Good defense, good shooting, nice passes, key rebounds. He’ll make a great trade piecee.
C. LEE: Good job. Alright ‘D’ … still needs to make wide-open corner threes (he only made 1-4?)
Yi: Big-time bright spot. His jump-shot has improved, but he did take a few wild ones. Towards the end of the game, his jump-shot becomes less efficient – it will get better as his conditioning improves. He MUST improve his “D” … right now its well below avg

We suck.

Pitiful. Disgraceful. Despicable. Thanks Ratner!!!

Winning five games would be a miracle at this point. This is absolutely inexcuable. Ratner combined with Stern have made a big laughingstock out of this franchise than I even thought was possible.

Sure Yi had 29 but but a lousy defensive effort by him and Lopez. Did Kiki put this mess together, nothing fits, can’t play two non defenders together.

many chinese fans said nets looks like a CBA team. may be there no physical training in nets, because they all can not catch up thunder after 2nd

I am in Sweden, I put match sticks between my eyelids to keep me awake(it is 7 hours earlier than your time here now), in turn I got another miserable loss. very ugly forth quarter.

Look, face it, Proky is gonna absolutely clean house when he comes in. Lopez is our current and future starting Center. period. Yes, he has his defensive limitations, but we have to adjust to that. Lopez is higher priority than Yi. That means we Proky will need to pair Lopez with a real strong PF. Whatever happens to Yi (6th man or traded or moved to SF) so be it. But Yi and Lopez cannot be paired together up front. For every offensive point you gain, you give up 1.5. When it comes to building a team, Lopez takes priority over Yi.

Why is my comment awaiting moderation? What, I got X marked on my back because I don’t toe the company line?

I love how Lopez forced his first 2 or 3 shots… literally just barreled his way into the lane and “chucked” it up… then He clumsily and unathletically got some quick fouls. THEEEEN when he was on the bench, he sulked, disrespected the coach, and worst of all, showed no support for his teammates. Brook just sat there with a frown on his face while the entire bench was cheering Lee as he skied for that awesome ally oop.

Great game by Yi,I loved the lefty layup.
But…
The offense still must go through Brook
The Nets have 2 7 footers with similar skills.
USE THEM!
Brook and Yi should be playing hi low.
Soon all starters will be back on the floor.
KD is solid.
Rafer is a cancer.quietly.trade him
This team has got to get key players healthy and practicing together.

omg…if one thing is going well the other falls flat.
this team needs to make brook and yi the focal point on offense since they clearly can not shoot from the outside.
enough said for me tonight…

Thunder are a young, talented team. They are more talented than the Nets. One of the reasons they are much better this year is that Durant is becoming a “Tier 1” player. Most NBA teams need at least one. Nets don’t have one at the moment.

I’m giving Brook a pass because he’s not talented enough to get double and triple teamed and still be productive. Then he gets early fouls and got frustrated. He’s the only player that has played in every one of these losses.

@brooklynjohnny

Hassell and TWill were guarding Durant not Yi. Yi did more than his share in trying to win this game and looks like he’s going to make a lot of people eat their words.
 
Durant plays just like The Iceman, George Gervin. Especially on that finger roll over Yi. Sweet..

It seems like Keyon Dooling and Trenton Hassell bust their buts out there. It seems like they want to help this team and I love the way they contribute.
PS
Keyons dunk was siiicccckk

Lopez needs to mature. His body language is terrible and he lets the referees take him out of the game mentally. You can turn a nets game on in the third quarter and if you dont know the score you can tell how the game is going for Lopez just by how body language is.

It looks to me like the frustration of losing is really getting to him. Pushing Kiki’s hand away was wrong and he should have been benched for that. There are stories about his brother’s attitude in Phoenix and I guess he has a little bit of that in him as well.

As for tonight’s game, another posted hit it on the head. This team just cant put a full game together. They dont have a bread and butter set or play they can go to get a basket when they are having trouble scoring. They have droughts in every game but arent able to rely on their defense to keep them in the game when it does.

It’s the same script every night. This team looks like it’s going to set the record for worst record ever, and probably shatter it. What will they get out of it? A 25% chance at the #1 pick. Terrible. The NBA needs to either abolish the lottery all together or make the odds much better for the team with the worst record.

15,335!!!!!!! Most loyal fans in the NBA by FAR are in New Jersey!!! Wake up David Stern – show some loyalty to your home state like the fans have for this team.

The owner tells the fans the team is being taken away from them, the team has TWO wins after Christmas and over 15,000 are in the house to see the team on a Monday night!

Unbeleiveable loyalty from the NEW JERSEY fans. Wake up Stern.

Dwight Howard wasn’t all great in his first two years in the league so give Brook some time.LET’S GO NETS!!!!!!!

I would have liked to see Yi on Durant tonight.

I like what the thunder are doing…we need a superstar like Kevin Durant. Maybe we can get tmac to play Sf for uS for the rest of the year?

Harris/dooling
lee/cdr
tmac/twill/hayes
yi/Boone
brook/battie

@Andy…T-Mac sucks. Would have been better to have kept Vince. But imho we need a defensive all-star more than anything else.

Coming to fruition…told you DH wasn’t an all-star…told you Lopez was definitely not an allstar…told you Frank sucked as a head coach…and he’ll never be hired by the Bulls…when will you guys stop drinking his kool8d?

2 and 29…just sad…

Anyone see the play at the free throw line after Brook fouled Durant on that reverse dunk? He was sulking and looking at the bench during the free throw, Durant misses, Brook doesn’t box out, and he proceeds to foul after giving up the offensive rebound.

the substitution pattern really hurts this team, lopez is very talented but what a baby mentally, battie has to play more, he is a good defensive presence,don,t see any offensive structure.nets need to get healthy,find a rotation and learn how to guard people.please stop all those calling for swat! what do you want 2 blocks, no points, 5 turnovers, 3fouls and giving up too many points, trade him for jcollins. Great move getting rid of kristic!!!where was the zone! put one man on durant and zone the rest.

Trade Yi, lee and najera for boozer and ak47 now!!

2-29 so far…

Worst team in NBA History, and it’s no longer close to being funny.

@Frank C

That would be a good trade for both teams and as fans we would like it…but…There is no way they will get rid of their international icon Yi Jianlian.

Knew Durant was going to kill us, we just don’t match up with him, and he is top five talent in the league these days. It makes watching a little more entertaining when YI is making shots, as long as I fast forward through HIS defensive sequences! OAK is up and coming, and should be better than their record shows. When will our next win come? When will I lose weight and when will my hair grow back?

really sick of people comparing the thunder to the nets. nets don’t have half the talent or a coach as good as scott brooks with youth. please.

Thunder>Nets

hopefully nets will be as good as the thunder sooon

Such an unexpected result.

P.s.
Pick up T-Mac!!

Issac—This game had 15,000 fans at the game because if you bought a tix to the lakers game, you got equal amount free.

That combined with kids being off from school, other giveaways, you get 15,000. None of that has to do with the loyalty of the nets fan base.

People need to relax with the Lopez stuff. The guy is in his second year. RELAX!!!!

As for Yi, clearly he needed a coaching change. Now it is up to this coaching staff to give Yi free reign but to also balance it out with Lopez. Clearly we all know this team needs a PF/C that can Defend and Rebound, Player X. To balance the team out you need substitution patterns like, Yi/Player X and Player X/ Lopez, so Yi is the offensive big and Player X is the defense and the same goes with Lopez. We dont need a scoring PF/C.

As for Hassel, Alston, and Batie, Is it me or are these guys taking too many shots? If they are trying to secure a New Contract with another team, These guys have to GO NOW!!!! Hassel seems to force shots. Why cant he be like Bowen. Defend and IF, ONLY IF, you are open you take the shot.

As for Twill, Rookie mistakes but at least he is trying to take it to the rim more then shoot. I like Twill with the breaking down the defense and passing the Ball. If we had A PG that did that instead, Cough, WALL, Cough, these young guys would be better off.

@frank c

Your are an idealist.

Before everyone gets down on this team for letting durant go for 40, look at his other games. He scores a ton against everyyyone did you not expect this going in? And anybody still wanna doubt yi now? And don’t go with the no defense thing because amare stoudemire and rudy gay are bad defenders but you’d sign them to huge contracts in the summer

Hey, the fans came out period! They have 2 wins! I would say loyal.

Oh and what’s the record for number of double digit losing streaks in a season? We’ll probably break it this year

I like the way Hassell and Dooling played and they give the team veteran leadership. We are lacking that star player, however. Hopefully, we can get that player in next years draft AND/OR in free agency with all that cap room we have. I have a feeling it will be through the draft though. Lucky for us, is that this draft may have a stud player in Wall. Many drafts don’t have that player. As for Brook, he will be fine. Every player has bad stretches and I am sure the losses are eating away at him.

It seems as if Lopez is angry that Yi is back and getting all the attention ………

I was one of the people in attendance. Same story, different day. Competitive in first half, can’t do anything in the second half. Oh well. Was a decent crowd though for a Monday night vs. the Thunder.

So I guess Kiki isn’t the “different voice” that the Nets needed to hear….

Lopez looks tired and slow. He’s played at a higher level for a while now so I don’t think there’s any reason to worry.

Yi looks drastically different on the offense end, but the defense stayed the same.

Both Lopez and Yi, two 7s are NETS future. Lopez plays as center with good basketball IQ. Yi plays as PF with athelic moving skill. Now the problem to NETS’ coach, is to find out a best way to use these two guys on court at same time.

Regarding defensive, it is a team job. You cannot give all bad to these two guys, because they are they are last defense position in the center. Actually NETS defense problem is from outside.

Bring Yi off the bench for the sake of Brook Lopez. As much as I’m a fan of Yi, he’s not going to be playing this good consistently for the rest of the season. He will gas out on back-to-backs and get bullied by the elite PFs of the league. I think to maintain Yi’s confidence, bring him off the bench so he can get more shots without disrupting the shots of the starters.

Play either Boone (when healthy) or Swat alongside Brook Lopez. I think it would work. Swat might be horrible on offense, but without some adequate PT he can’t develop.

 With Yi coming off the bench, play Tony Battie at Center. Battie is a big veteran whose played with a winning team and has already had a role of helping his fellow big man. I think those lineups will work better.

Brook Lopez will start to have the Andrew Bynum syndrome, meaning if he’s not getting enough touches and not scoring (while his other teammate is playing well) he’ll just stop caring.

I love how after 2 games Brook Lopez has “lost it” and doesn’t support the team in morale. To me his eyes had the look of being sick and it would explain his energy level and execution. I don’t think this is some major revelation, like Yi is back so now Lopez has forgot how to score somehow. I suppose once Chris comes back he’ll be back to his rookie numbers? Doubt it. A day is coming soon when we will finally put 5 double figure point scorers in the starting lineup and chemistry will have to be found with that group on both ends.

@ supreme

“Yi did more than his share in trying to win this game and looks like he’s going to make a lot of people eat their words.”

Amen! I find it unbelievable that people still bash Yi and want to trade him or make him come off the bench, wow!

@Dont Taze Me Bro

You are making us laugh. Bring Yi off the bench so he won’t disrupt the shots of starters? Yi is the starting PF. And do it for the sake of B Lo? Why? Not for the sake of the team? So B Lo can get some scoring and you will be happy? Should people do the same thing with Shaq and LeBron, or maybe Kobe and Pau? It’s a free world and people can say anything they want. But things you said are insults to intelligence.

i think we can get t-mac!
let’s try t-mac for najera, simmons and alston.. i try it and it worked in nba trade machine.
it sounds good maybe we can win 2-3 more games ..

Yi could play SF and let SWill or Boone start.
Del Harris used Yi as a SF in the olympics.
Yi needs to pass the ball
2 assists all year?
So many people complained about Brooks passing.
Brook is averaging 5 ast in his last 4 games
The team philosphy should be “insideout”
With brook and Yi , this should be a no brainer

Just curious…what kind of assist average do most NBA PFs have?

Brook,Yi…. Twin Towers. But right now they need the right coaching from someone who did it. I am talking about Olajuwon Bill Lambeer. Kiki should kick himself upstair and let Del Harris coach the team and hire Olajuwon to coach these two. Time is of the essence. Strike while the iron is hot.

@Edd

Am guessing that Del Harris doesn’t want to be the head coach…wasn’t he retired when the Nets called him? Del was a big Yi supporter when he coached in China, so he probably just wanted to come help out, but not take the full reigns…

One thing is the coaching is still hurting us. Next year whoever coaches this team really needs to change a lot.

ON the McGrady thing, if getting mcgrady is going to give us more cap room, then I am for it. After that I dont want him on this team. Rumor has it Mcgrady has already shown he doesnt want to be here and he wants PT. Our young guys need PT more then his ass.

McGrady??? On hindsight, the better VC trade was to have gotten all those Rockets.

Here is what I posted to the pregame thread at 11:21 am yesterday

“We have no one who can hope to guard Durant. The rest of the teams are maybe an even matchup. So OKC should win by 20.”

Ok,so I was off by 4 points. But this was an obvious loss. The Nets are a bad team in many phases of the game and Durant is a stud.

the only way for us to have an all-star right now is to get tmac, not that i like the idea but if we can get rid of:

Simmons, SWat, Najera, Battie

keep:

Lopez / Boone
Yi / hassell
CDR / Jayes
Tmac / Lee
Harris / Alston

ill keep twill but im not sold on him, Sign Lebron, Wade and David lee to have a championship team plz

Forget about Lebron, use the cap space to get Durant, does anyone think that Kiki could use the new owner’s cash to wave a K-Mart type deal at Durant for 2011-12? Could OKC’s ownership match, they of should if they could.

A good friend of mine got free tickets from Yormark for the game and he said there was about 9k people in the arena, he laughed at the 15K announced attendance, don’t believe it.

T-Mac is no longer an all-star-calibre player.

Brook has shown a lot but he is a second year guy and is prone to ups and downs. Over the long run, he will be a monster. Opposing teams swarm him and it’s difficult for him to work with no real support.

As for Swat, give it up. He’s a bonehead, will not play much and will most likely be gone by or at the end of the season.

Yi Jianlian is not on the same level of Shaq (in his prime) or Lebron James, so to compare them to Yi that’s an insult right there. Yi Jianlian might be having his hot streak, but we’ve seen him do this before and then crawl in his shell and never come back out. What’s wrong with bringing Yi off the bench? We all know that Brook Lopez, Courtney Lee, Devin Harris, and whoever is starting wants to score. Even with Yi having these offensive explosions, his defense isn’t getting any better.

It’s not like the Nets are winning a load of games since Yi’s comeback, I don’t see the problem with experimenting and seeing which lineups fits well playing together.

“A good friend of mine got free tickets from Yormark for the game and he said there was about 9k people in the arena, he laughed at the 15K announced attendance, don’t believe it.”

I don’t care if there were only 9,000 (which judging by tv was more like 12-13 thousand). That is still about 8000 more than should have been there when the owner tells the fans the team is moving and the “team” has TWO WINS in late December thanks to him!!!

lopez is jason collins and yi is the second of dirk. yep. because it’s never been the other way around with yi giving a poor effort and lopez looking sharp…right.

ugh.

We need change and we will T-Mac

@ sonny – I hope that was sarcasm and you weren’t really being serious.