Nets Win Despite Off Nights from Harris and Carter

Man that was huge

carter/harris again played like scrubs offensively but made the plays down the stretch…vc with the assist to hayes who delivers the dagger to the bucks…5 3s in the closing minutes killed the bucks…LUTHER HEAD that would have been YOU getting those passes from VC/HARRIS!

COOL, SWEET, RASH LOL…

Is Brook really a rook? He was a major gift to us. Some of the GMs who passed him should be cursing now (Thanks MJ).

Good win!

Still not to fond of the rotation tho.. want to see more CDR, and Anderson should be the backup 4, not Hayes or simmons

Man Lopez is just downright BEAST!!!

man that was a tough game to watch
wow devin and vc off (how do u win)?????
wow brook was great!!!!!
finally my boy ryan got a oprutinity

how many turnovers did DH get..?
in the mid-4th quarter they were leading by 2-3 points but just settled for jump shot…the should drive to the paint more and draw fouls!!
they’ve almost lost it
glad the bench stepped up~!

I think Lopez reads the posts on the sites and prolly read how we’ve notived the crush he appears to have on Michelle lol, he stared at her alot less than he usually does during the postgame interview lol

JayMS,

Actually I wanted to ask that question from “ask the announcers” segment. Brook seems to have a crush on Michelle :)

A must win, and a solid road win, with a great game from LOPEZ. You will note I wrote in a post earlier today that Lopez would be able to pick and roll all night tonight!
Great contributions from Hayes, Dooling and …….Anderson?
If we can steal one or two of the next five, maybe the playoffs are still a possibility. Scott Skiles is a great coach. He has the Bucks playing well, with 2nd rate talent and RJ. AND Chicago picked up good players at the trade deadline. It is not going to be easy for us to make the playoffs. We will need big efforts, like tonight’s. But Devin and Carter can’t keep shooting this badly. GO NETS!

we made 2 deals that teams are only lucky enough to get once every 5 years but we got it in the same year.
1) the harris trade
2) lopez falling to us

with regards to tonights game:

great win, but frank over coached at the end. We’re winning by 3 with 7 seconds left and bucks ball on the other end of the floor, i would just take a chance and have them make a 3 rather than the whole free throw scenario where we might foul in the act of shooting or cause a 3 point play (which almost happened with villaneuava).
but all in all, great win with a big game tomorrow vs boston without garnett.
we should be able to put up a good fight and maybe eke out a win

Great win. Even with off nights from VC and Harris, it shows we could still win – with solid performances from Brook and the bench (Hayes, Dooling and Anderson). And this is on the road. Again great win!

Great win VC and Devin REALLY struggled yet we still won. Devin had 5 t.o.s and shot 3-14. But he did get 4 steals and 11 assists and made 4 clutch free throws. I think he was tying too hard in front of familiy and friends. But those assists to Dooling were huge too.

VC made a huge pass to Hayes and the bench proved that we are a deep team.

I know most of us don’t like small ball but the 14-2 run in the 4th that gave us the lead was all small ball and zone defense. Frank had a good game because he put Anderson in the game and pulled the strings that got the W without Devin or VC playing well on the road. Great win.

Excellent win on the road! I wonder what the stat is for Harris turnovers in the last 2 minutes of the games would be?? Awesome job Dooling,(Late 3s were incredible) Hayes, and especially Ryan. I’m not sure why Frank was punishing him but hopefully his “Time Out” is over.

I thought Vince played hard and smart. eventhouhg the shots didn’t go in he made the right plays.

Amazing how people are still clamoring for more Yi and CDR and taking out Hayes.

Hayes came up huuuuge tonight!!!

Great win. Carry that over to tomorrow night and shock the NBA, send a message to those other teams fighting for a spot

Hope CDR plays against Boston. Nets will need him – for more than the 3 minutes he played tonite and the one basket and offensive rebound he managed to get. Not satisfied, but it was nice to see one of those smooth CDR layups again.

Wasn’t a pretty win but we’ll take it. Go Nets. PLAY CDR.

I guess small ball works.

Anyway, this was a great win. Bench stepped up big time.

We stole a win tonight.

We could complain about so many things about this game, or how we could have lost thanks to so many mistakes, but I’m not going to complain. A win is a win, and this game could have saved our season, or lost this season.

We were able to out hustle them in the 4th, made most of the right plays down the stretch, and now we are back in 9th place and are within half a game of that 8th seed.

Applaud Vince for that beautiful pass at the most important moment of the game, drawing 3 defenders on him, and passing it to Jarvis Hayes making the big shot.

The one who made us win this game though?
Brook Lopez. This young guy will be a superstar in this league. And you know what? When we finally need that one rebound, we get it by Brook.

My evaluation on the players and the coach:

Vince Carter-He had a bad shooting night, but again he made an impact without having to score. The shots he did make where in the paint, he did not turn the ball over, and again made the huge plays down the stretch. See what happens when VC actually touches the ball in the 4th Frank???

Devin Harris-It might have been the asthma he experienced in the 1st quarter, or maybe it was Milwaukee that was expecting him to attack the lane so they ran their defense that Harris doesn’t penetrate, but they turned Harris into a jumpshooter and that was not his forte. Made huge freethrows for us down the stretch, but still turned it over a few times, and could of played a little smarter, but I’m not blaming him for much.

Trenton Hassell-He can be such a liability on offense, but if he can just continue to play defense, than he should be fine. I still think he should be getting less minutes.

Yi Jianlian-had early fouls and still hasn’t shown us the Yi we need him to be. Give him some more time to get use to playing, and just focus on your rebounding and not taking silly fouls Yi.

Brook Lopez-Congratulations on passing Kenyon Martin for all-time blocks for a rookie. Is this guy for real? He amazes me everytime he’s on the court. This guy should be ROY. This guy will be a superstar. Didn’t Keyon Dooling say he would be a top 5 center in this league by the end of the season? And we thought he was crazy.

Ryan Andersen:I applaud Frank for giving ANdersen some minutes to give us a spark off the bench and he produced. He gave us the 3s, he made his shots, and didn’t force anything. Hopefully he gets more time at the 4 cuz we still need some rebounding.

Jarvis Hayes-I just knew he was going to make that shot. This guy has been a great pickup and I’m glad he’s on this team. PURPLE HAYES!!

Bobby Simmons-If he’s going to play the 4, he better rebound like crazy.

Keyon Dooling-Again when we need a 3 it’s always Dooling to the rescue. Those back to back 3s were huge, and he led us to that charge early in the 4th. I love our bench.

CDR-Had a nice layup and showed he can get up with a nice rebound, I’d give him more time and heck I’d even put him up against Marbury tomorrow.

Sean Williams-No real impact, but did not make much mistakes. Got to know that jumpshots aren’t his forte and stick with being inside the paint.

Frank had his up and down moments for his rotation tonight, but he made the right decisions that mattered. i think he was too cautious with all the fouls, but it’s alright to be cautious.

Good Win, now let’s steal one againt the Celtics!

wow great win. if we lost => season = DUNZO

I have an idea:

KEEP FRANK!!!

HOOLLLLLLAH!!!

what’s rj talking about? the bucks weren’t far off from the nets even when bogut and redd were playing…besides, the bucks have one of the leagues highest payrolls with nothing to show for it…the nets have one of the lowest payrolls. also, they messed up in the draft drafting another small forward in joe alexander when they had tons of ‘em…they passed on “THE BEAST” brook lopez who scorched them for 24/12/3 tonight…if rj’s gonna talk about suppositions then i can also say yi would’ve dropped 20/10 on them tonight if he hadn’t gotten injured just as his game was developing…

poor josh boone…he’s the only dnp tonight…from starting center to 12th man…get your act together man! practice them free throws until your elbows hurt! get some charges, hit someone going in the paint! run hard, cut hard, dunk everything! go after the ball like every rebound should be yours!

good to know the bulls also lost tonight!!..now tomorrow against the CHAMPS will be a huge test for us..RESURRECT VINSANITY!!..

i hope the celtics continue its path on starbury’s losing tradition…

frank has to look at his rotation again
harris/dooling
carter/hayes/cdr
hassell/simmons/hayes
Yi*i dont want this but hes gonna start/anderson/williams
lopez/williams/boone

This was one of the biggest wins of the season so far considering where we sit in the standings. If we lost this game and dropped one to the C’s tomorrow…we’d essentially be out of it and not be able to make ground considering the tough games coming up. Big big win…the bench was huge and I still have some hope that we can make a solid playoff push.

Go Nets!

jarvis sounds like a gutsy guy

Awesome game by Brook. Reminded me of early David Robinson.

Forget shooting…Harris and Carter both played well in other aspects of the game. Someone was guarding RJ when he went 4 for 18 and both Harris and Carter made some terrific passes in the fourth quarter, finding people open for three’s. That Carter pass to Hayes in the corner, as three Bucks collapsed on him, was perfect. Harris has 25 assists in the last two games.

“Net Income Says:

Forget shooting…Harris and Carter both played well in other aspects of the game. Someone was guarding RJ when he went 4 for 18 and both Harris and Carter made some terrific passes in the fourth quarter, finding people open for three’s. That Carter pass to Hayes in the corner, as three Bucks collapsed on him, was perfect. Harris has 25 assists in the last two games."

This is an excellent point, I was wondering when someone would give Harris and Carter credit for the little things that they were doing last night. There was a moment in the 4th when Harris lost his composure and started jacking up bad shots(his frustration was due to the atrocious officiating in that game..Harris was getting hacked to death out there) but he should be commended for gathering himself and making some awesome plays down the stretch…everyone seems to be dogging Harris for his turnover late in the 4th(i thought he was fouled on the play), but the kid had come down and made two great passes to the corner for three, that pick and roll with Harris and Lopez was pure gold and he also drove the lane hard during that stretch and made a clutch lay up. He really picked up his game there at the end, and VC, what more can I say, the man was patient, didn’t force anything, and made the assist on the game clinching three.

Kudos to Keyon Dooling in the 4th, he was on FIRE.

For those of you saying that small ball was working, I disagree totally…if i recall correctly, the Nets made their run in the 4th when we had Ryan Anderson in at PF, i think the line up was Lopez-Anderson-Hayes-Dooling-Harris. Frank subbed Carter for Anderson and the Bucks had the size advantage on the boards and in the paint, IMO, Frank electing to go small against Charlie Villanueva(why would you have a SG guard a 6’10 forward?)could have cost us the game just as much as Harris’ foul induced turn over.

If Frank wants to have shooting out there, put in Ryan Anderson and Yi and let them play, at least they have the size to rebound, i’m sick of seeing Carter, Hassel and Hayes having to box out 6’10-7’0 forwards and getting rebounds snatched from them, its stupid. Also, Frank is very limited as far as being flexible or just having a clue, because you can’t expect to have a shooter out there every time at the 4, we suffer defensively and rebounding wise from it and sometimes that is the difference between a win and a loss(i.e. the New Orleans game). Frank needs to grow a pair and put Lopez and Williams out there together, i think those two together will do a great job on both ends of the floor as long as Sean plays within his role.

Otherwise, Kudos to the Nets for a hard fought victory.

The officiating was terrible on both sides, but great win!

GO NETS!!!

R. Anderson plays better coming from the bench!!!

I actually liked the officiating. They let them play and were consistent for both teams. It made for some exciting end-to-end basketball in the second half.

VC and Harris were terrible offensively but the winning assist by VC to Hayes was a thing of beauty. I swear Frank should play thru VC the last two minutes of the game. He creates for his teammates all the time. The defense always come toward him and he always find an open player. Harris always going to the basket without ever looking to create or pass to an open teammate.

what can I say about Anderson, Dooling, Brook. They absolutely won the game for the Nets.

@ tony and jay s

i dont blame brook
she is…