Kiki and Rod Await Their Fate

These two men have a date with the guillotine

Kiki may have done some great things in his career as GM of different teams, but his stay at the NETS is over. He is focusing on the wrong players, and the NETS need a real coach to guide the younger players.

Thorn lost his touch, still thinks he drafted MJ because he thought he was a superstar.
Thorn ruined this franchise by trading RJ, KIDD, and VC for no-talent role players.

Bye – Bye. I hope this is not a two for one deal. I would not mind Thorn for a few years while the new owner grooms a new GM under Thorn, but get rid of Kiki of no concept how to defend. I find his Gm skills minimal. Kmart to Yi for RJ and adding Anderson to Orlando.

Kiyi just doesn’t know how to coach a team. His one goal is to play Yiki a lot. He lost all the other players’ respect within the first couple of games. Can you go back to being GM once all your players think you’re an idiot? If we keep Kiyi on the bench, it’s possible that we don’t win another game all season.

Puzzling comments from the article:

“I think he’s doing fine,‘’ Thorn said of Vandeweghe. "We haven’t won as many games as we’d have liked to, but some of our players are gaining valuable experience."

Devin Harris said, “But I think Kiki was the right man for it, and obviously he’s got the right attitude.”

Is this Bizarro World??

^^^it’s called being political. Thorn’s not going to trash Kiki in the press and Harris is old enough to know that there’s certain things you don’t say.

Kiki just looks and sounds like a guy who would put people to sleep….

This is what should happen… Kiki and Rod walk in to see the new sheriff in town and Prok says to them with a menacing look on his face and says your FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!! Vince Mcmahon style… There’s an old saying, when the fish starts rotting it always starts rotting from the head….

Everyone on the Nets were screwed when Rat bailed ship. Anything can happen between now and the new owner.

You can’t blame the people stuck on the sinking ship. To Frank, he was so good, he was 0 and 16 and counting.

There’s enough blame for everyone in this mess.

Proky should keep Thorn around to see these big changes through, while he is poor evaluator of talent and the Nets have had an atrocious draft record in recent years he is an ace deal maker, there’s no question, and if anyone is going to work some magic to land Lebron, Bosh or Wade it’s him. Now is not the time to let Thorn go. Kiki is another story, he seems more like he could be a special players assistant on the coaching staff at most, but GM and/or Coach? Please…

Proky keeps them both and brings in another guy he trusts for the 1st year. Too late to fire anyone and hope to attract free agents. Next year all bets are off.

FIRE KIKI NOW!!!!!!!

Kiki thinks Yi can save his job. lol.

Kiyi, that’s a good one.

FIRE KIYI!!!!

@ Mr. Dollar Bills

I consider Rod Thorn and Devin Harris to be media savvy with lots of parrying experience. They each could have made “politically correct” doublespeak statements that weren’t such blatant bs. That’s what riles fans because it insults our intelligence.

there’s no getting around being the worst team in history. i’d fire them today on principle. there have been lots of teams with cheapskate owners. lots of teams cleared cap space. but there’s no excuse for the state of this team

The hell with Kiki…He shoved LFrank out the door, leading a behind-the-scenes smear campaign that was sleazy as it was unprofessional…And then he proved he didn’t know what the hell he was doing…and now teams are running up 70 point halvess because he doesn’t know the first thing about defense or coaching.

Heckuvajob, Kiki!

Hollah!

“Thorn ruined this franchise by trading RJ, KIDD, and VC for no-talent role players.”

Absolutely correct – although the slimeball Ratner had as much to do with this as Thorn and Kiki combined. I can’t imagine Thorn would have torn this team apart after all that he did to make it a winner.

It is sad enough this had to happen, it is more sickening that so many of the so-called Nets fans have been fooled to think that Ratner and his people have had good intentions.

Kiki, like LFrank, is a nice person. However, this team needs a REAL coach desperately!!!

Jeff,

This organization has been insulting our intelligence for the last few years

Kiki has been very good in the draft. I think his strength is as a talent evaluator. With so many picks over the next 3 seasons – that is invaluable. Rod does not seem to be a great talent evaluator – his draft record pre-Kiki has been horrible.

You have to understand that this team was losing a lot of money, was not going to be a championship team, and the decision (probably from up above) was to blow this team up, and rebuild through the draft and then in the 2010 and 2011 free agency summers. Whenever you blow a team up and fully enter rebuilding, the results are not pretty.

But having a young core of Lopez, Harris, CDR, Lee, Yi, TWill and even now Humprhies is a start. Add in 3 more picks this summer (1 of which will hopefully be John Wall) and a good free agent signing this summer, along with certainty surrounding Brooklyn, and this team’s fortunes are drastically different next season.

Fire them both ASAP, sure they may have some qualities but there’s alot better out there.