Buck Up, Nets Fans!

“The Nets fan doom and gloom must take in some perspective with the, understandable, frustration. Look at what they have – the building blocks at crucial positions and youth and potential – and step back to see the whole picture.”

There is only one problem with you trying to cheer us up McQueeny – you neglected to mention the wonderful owner and his marketing cronie are still threatening to steal our team and move them away from where many of us have supported it for the past 2-3 decades!!!!

“Where do New Jersey Nets Stand?”

Hmm….from what I saw yesterday, one foot in the toilet, the other on the edge of the seat.

There is limited room for Yi to positively contribute in the future Nets team centered around Lopez and Harris. The team needs an enforcer & offensive rebounder, not a soft 7fter spotting up outside…

Programming Alert: They are currently showing Nets vs Bucks – Game 6 of the 1984 Conference Semifinals on NBA TV!!! This was the furthest the Nets ever advanced in the NBA playoffs in the pre-Jason Kidd era… 1-3 PM!

Johnny I disagree if Yi can become someone worth a damn he can easily be a solid offensive contributor off of the bench at low cost, but the guy has to be willing to take that next step.

Here’s the problem with this story. Yi has no potential at the PF. He sucked before his injury except for a couple of games against crap. The onus on offense will never change from Harris to Lopez as long as Opie is the coach and playing small ball. If the team can afford to pay VC keep him.

So good to see such optimism. McQueeny of course must be dismissed while our resident coach must be paid attention to.

The only stock I’d compare yi to is enron.

the nets will still keep going to yi at least for one more season in the absence of a starting-quality pf…if he doesn’t pan out next year then they decide what to do with him…keep him if he is a solid reserve or send him back to china. nets will keep trying to trade vc but in the absence of a good deal (more likely with the current state of the economy and the coming of the much-anticipated 2010 FA market) vince will be here and nets will be satisfied with what carter is doing…nets will try to trade SWat for anything but other teams will only be willing to give a late 2nd rounder for him…so SWat stays as a 3rd string center.

I like the building blocks. We didn’t have steady contributions from the sf or pf’s this year. We don’t need stars but we do need consistencey and we need to know what we’re getting. We have a very good bench. But we need to fill those forward spots with a trade, free agency or the draft.

@libigman

Bro, do you ever have anything else to contribute? When I see you name I know what your saying before reading it. You could just copy and paste the same 3 lines over and over. Opie plays small ball, Swat needs to play sf and Yi should play sf. Oh yea and you beleive in infuencing shots. That cover it?

Supreme

This is why I have to repeat it a 1000 times. Swat needs to play the PF NOT SF. LOL. You seem frustrated. Kind of like Opie in that post game interview yesterday. You know the guy who doing a decent job. LMAO. Some people never GET IT!

No frustration here bro. I just haven’t seen anything from you that shows you have anything to contribute other than play swat at the 4. Gets a little boring. You need to read the scouting report that Phil Jackson had on the nets a couple of days ago. He gives Frank some credit. But more importantly he talks about how coaches think. How they attack other teams. I know your whole argument already so beleive me there’s no reason to repeat it. What I’m simply saying is that there is a lot more to basketball at any level other than is one particular player playing out of position. You can say it another thousand times. Doesn’t make it the only thing that has to happen for a team to win. There are several things. And it’s not just defense. It’s offense and defense. Again read Phil Jacksons scouting report. Might help you get over that one viewpoint. And I keep telling you…but you don’t get this either.. I could care less about Opie… But Roy Rogers? You gotta tell me what he’s done to make him the next coach of the Nets. Does he sleep with swat?

Agree with you JohnY (any relation?) that we need a tough banger at the 4, not Yi. I also don’t like this revision of reality. Why do people think Yi was playing great before he went down? He was mediocre and had two good games. Big deal. A sentence like this “but he was also just as sensational going into that injury,” is ridiculous. Sensational? Come on.

The year was Okay. I like watching Harris become a star and Lopez develop and I want to see CDR and Anderson next year. I think the bench is a bright spot: hayes and dooling are awesome. I just don’t buy the Yi thing, but Kiki and Thorn must know something. I think they cannot go into next season without a real 4: yi and anderson off the bench until further notice. And the 4 does not have to be a star, just a steady tough player: a dooling or hayes type at the four.

@ Supreme
Nice bro, good to see someone who actually rationalizes their arguments for once

There is no magic bullet for this team’s woes, what, you think starting swat at the 4 and getting a new coach is gonna turn us into a 50 win team? It’s not that simple.

And what is swat’s ceiling anyway? Chris Andersen? Great shotblocker, occasional rebounder, great dunker. Yeah sounds about right