Nets Want to Go Out with Head Held High

and this is why they won’t tank the season.

I think how it’s unsportsman like, to the fans, sending a message like “oh were not making the playoffs, were going to stop playing hard.”

I think we have exceeded expectations this year, and being a young and rebuilding team we experienced alot of frustrating moments, and hopefully we do continue to play hard and if we get a better record than we did last year, than hey, haven’t we proved everyone wrong bashing the Nets?

Let’s go Nets!!!

With the same record last years team had a bleak future… this years team has a bright future…

while we have done better than most expect, i think many of us can agree that we have gotten worse as the year has gone on. i thought we would play better together as the year went on and the opposite has happened. yeah when you have rookies at the 4 and 5 you know they will hit a wall and slow down, but i thought a guy like ryan would get better as the year has gone on because hes an energy hustle guy.

last year was a mess. kidd didnt want to be here, we didnt play like a team and we got devin. devin was the only bright spot from last year. this year its devin and brook with cdr coming on good towards the end of the year. i think ryan will be fine too, but im worried about Yi and his confidence.

should be an interesting offseason. do we make moves to improve? to we stay pat and hope that Yi plays 10x better next year and the rest of the kids grow? do we dump vince? do we keep the pick? who do we draft? would we make a move for a guy like amare or bosh if they were on the block? will ratner be willing to spend while we are losing money and brooklyn doesnt have any steel going up for the BC?

As long as they are not officially eliminated from the playoffs, it’s not over yet. Keep in mind that they only have to lose three more times, and that might not happen. Unfotruntately, that might be hard seeing who they have to face next. They might have to play like the Mets were for the last two seasons, which was bringing all the way to the end. I will still be happy if Harris wins MIP or Lopez wins ROY, but I have feeling that when it comes to the Nets, the press looks at anyone but them.

@Tal

i think Devin will win MIP. he has been unreal. he went from a role player in Dallas to an All-star scoring threat. everyone from coaches to players to the media has said great things about devin. yeah granger has been great too and it will be a tough choice but i think devin does deserve it. the only thing i think that could hurt him would be that he has vince carter and granger has…um…yup thats my point.

brook wont win ROY. when you come into the league with hype and you play pretty dam well like rose has, its tough not to pick him. plus doing what he has done as a pg is tough. he is the main focus there, whereas brook has vc and devin and that would actually hurt him in this case. im assuming that brook would finish in the top 3 though. would be great if he could be two. nothing wrong being in 2nd when the 1st guy is a special kid

Well, you want to pay more energy.

Hmm.

Then why don’t all of you do this in the earlier season?

Now it’s just too late, you just have blown out the opportunities to get into the postseason.

Now no matter how much you can do, you just can’t change the fate of this season.

If we win the next game then we are only 3 1/2 games behind the bulls, so the next game is huge, and if we can beat the sixers then we can be 3 games back so we aren’t out of it yet

Unfortunately, xcalibur, I can remember when Sports Illustrated said in 2002 that Kidd should have been MVP, but it wound up going to Tim Duncan instead. My guess was that it was because of visiting his sick father that made the press think about him more. When they had Mikki Moore, I feel that he went around as the most underated player, because he was only considered a candidate by Charles Barkley and got just one vote for MIP and his only season on the Nets. Even though Sports Illustrated is for Harris on winning MIP, I have a feeling that press will go for someone else. Ever since Derrick Coleman ROY back in 1992, nobody else on the Nets has won ROY since then, and I still feel that Kenyon Martin went under the radar in his rookie season to Mike Miller because of hype the same way for Derrick Rose over Brook Lopez.

I do know that Pacers are playing the Spurs, while the Bobcats are facing the Heat, so losses there can bring back hope for the Nets. Of course the Nets will still need to win to against both the Bulls and 76ers this weekend to stay alive along with the Bucks losing to the Grizzlies tomorrow. If everything goes right, the Nets will be one game above the Bucks, while being one game behind the Bobcats, a half game behind the Pacers, and three and a half games behind the Bulls. On a sidenote, it was 1991 when Coleman won ROY, not 1992, because that was Larry Johnson, who was on the Hornets at that time.