Anther blown lead by the Nets. As usual they dont get the ball to Brook enough and can not make a three.

What should I say at this moment……well, at least we are one step closer to wall.

I think im done watching this season
No free agent will come here…
Yi Jianlian shot alright but his defense was terrible
Hump has lost his swing
CDR doesnt play

Everytime Brook scores big first quarter he DOES NOTHING SECOND QUARTER. I dont know if the PG’s dont want to feed him because they dont want to hog the ball but if you want to win you got to feed it to the guy who is HOT! OUR STAR!

Kikis excuse today will be?

get rid of kiki NOW

please rod, if you’re reading this

he is destroying the future of brook and lee and CDR and all of our other young talent

we need a coach

please

29 and 8 by the Future Net.

FIRE KIKI !!!!!!

Can Rod please make Fratello Head Coach for the rest of the season, possibly more.

4-21 from 3pt range and 4 attempts for Brook in the second half shows that Kiki isn’t guiding the team where their strength is.

At least Yi played decent.

Devin had waaay too many turnovers but he was playing well in the first half with double digit assists.

Oh well… 9 wins are looking harder and harder to get..

Kiki should make a rule.. if you shoot more than 2 3 pointers, you are automatically benched, and if T.Will even tries one, he should be benched.

All in all, a good 1st half (mainly 1st quarter) that all ended with the way NJ came out in the 3rd. Believe it or not, I was actually hoping to see Hassell. At least he could have defended Mayo or Gay, and knows not to shoot the 3, or at all, unless he is wide open.

It is clearly obvious that Kiki Vanderslaw is not a capable coach…

The Nets were so dominant in the fist quarter feeding Lopez and Humph and then they became a jump shooting team…

Kiki needs to go

its weird how us , the fans, know what is best for the team (firing kiki) meanwhile the people in charge of the organization and team seem clueless

lmao its too funny watching how bad this team really is, and what gets me even more pissed off is that the knicks are starting to make moves and now have more money to spend this offseason.

what are you bums in charge waiting for !?!?!?!?!?!? ITS NOT THAT HARD TO FIRE KIKI, CMON NOW

Sorry guys… I am now done for the rest of the season. I don’t understand how a team can go from leading 18 at one point to losing by double digits. Brook was dominating in the first half, and really didn’t get that many touches during the 2nd half, especially the 4th quarter.

Devin played great during the first half, but played horribly with too many turnovers, and those ridiculous 3 pointers… he really should stop shooting it when he’s shooting at such a low percentage.

As for everyone else… they all played horrible. Yi couldn’t defend if his life depends on it, and everyone else can’t shoot or pass the damn ball.

It’s just too frustrating to watch the Nets play right now. I have watched every single game this season up til now… tonight will be my last one, because I simply just can’t watch them anymore. It’s like they don’t even care that they are losing anymore, they just gave up. If they don’t care about giving effort and winning… then why should the fans care about them.

Until I see any serious changes from the top all the way down to the bottom, I wont be watching any more games this season.

1) Fire Kiki
2) Hire Fratello or Loyer
3) Release Simmons, Battie, Hassell
4) Sign the three best D-Leaguers currently available.
5) Hope our new coach plays CDR and makes Lopez the focus of the offense for more than 16 minutes.

@ letsGoNets i’m done 2 i cant watch these games anymore i get depressed lol. no more commenting for me until nba draft. hopefully we can get john wall if we dont u wont see me on here for a long time. nice knowing u guys

I loved the Czar tonight. “This team has no right taking so many 3 pointers.”

TWill makes some mistakes, but I love his energy. As he matures as a player, I think he’ll be a good asset to this team. And I love seeing Humphries fight for those rebounds. It’s when those high energy guys are in I enjoy watching the Nets (and the only time.)

By the way all of you “Gay is our Savior” Supporters out there, a starting lineup of

Harris
Lee
Gay
Yi
Lopez

or

Wall
Harris
Gay
Yi
Lopez

or

Harris
Turner
Gay
Yi
Lopez

will not get us any more than 25-30 wins as I see it. So there is really NO chance we will make the playoffs next year. We have to hope I guess to land Melo or a big name in 2011, which will NEVER happen.

Prokhorov, new coach, new players, new arena, its all bull. This team wont be record breakingly awful the next few seasons, but they’re not going to be a playoff team for at least the next 5 or 6 seasons.

Unfortunately, I really miss Frank. He sucked at times, but he was a helluva lot better than Kiki. We would have had at least 10 wins by now had Frank stayed. But alas, what use is it to ponder what could have been?

Jim is also done for the season. I’ll keep giving netsdaily.com some hits because it’s a very good website, but Jim will not be commenting anymore.

I haven’t watched Nets games since a late december, early jamuary i think. They had 3 wins and I don’t know how many losses, and I just got too frustrated.

Yi, go back to China with Kiki!!!!!!!!!

This was the worst game of the year for me besides opening night in Minny. I wish I could stop watching but I am going to be a true fan. What did everyone think of Rudy Gay? 6 yrs 60 mill? David Lee 6 yrs 60 mill? Sign some fillers to one yr deals Get rid of Yi someohow too..

Devin/Dooling
Wall/Lee
Rudy/CDR
Lee/Hump/dallas pick
Lopez/boone/2nd rounder

With a good coach and the continued development of gay lee lee brook and hump. I think this could be realistically a good squad.

Great job coaching tonite Kiwi…all this “coach” has done this season is play his mancrush Yi NO MATTER WHAT, and destroy CDR’s season…way to go again “coach”

This was the most disheartening loss of the season…by far.

Can anyone explain to me how Brook goes off in the 1st quarter with Devin continually feeding him the ball? Devin had 7 assists in the 1st quarter and Brook had 17 points. Best quarter as a team of the season.

So as clearly should happen – the Nets got away from feeding Brook the ball down low and ended up hoisting 19 3 pointers (they hit on 16% of them).

I don’t understand how the players (Devin, Lee) can start chucking up 3s instead of looking for Brook, how Brook doesn’t demand the ball and more importantly how the coaching staff doesn’t have a heart attack watching this happen.

Please can someone other than Mike Fratello explain this to me? He clearly GETS it…yet of course is not on the “short” list of coaching candidates. Brilliant.

I honestly think this is my last post until the draft tonight – as this loss has zapped all my spirit in watching this team.

CDR did not play in this game AT ALL (even though Jarvis had another bad game)? Hasn’t Kiki’s punishment of CDR gone too far Don’t the Nets want to use ALL available resources to avoid this horrid record that looms ahead? Guess not.

@The GM, Ya i Would like to see more CDR too, but he also has to play within a more team oriented role.

This was a winnable game for the Nets, but instead..we are under the Yiki era, anyone notice how the coach will defend Yi at all costs..even subs Yi in wit 33secs left 2 get more shot attempts? Doesn’t keep B Lopez involved after 22pts in 1st Half?! And what was Hayes giving the team before his injury? This whole season that once held promise is a slow, painful, cruel joke…Fire the coach/GM…TWICE!

It’s sad what’s going on with Yi. However, Nets fans should
just relax and wait til the draft.

no comment…

<——lost

Yi is your firing target regardless how well or bad he plays?

Forget CDR, I love the kid but it’s very clear that he has no part in whatever future the Nets have designed. Best thing for him is that come summertime, his team option isn’t picked up so he can sign with another team that he could be of more use with.

The Nets came out with a lot of energy tonight. This probably runs against the grain but I think they looked well prepared. A couple of things changed in the second half. First, they looked like they left their energy in the locker room. Second, I think the Grizz packed into the paint more on defense. That made Lopez less effective and cut off the slashers. The Nets have no shooters to make a team pay for that. I blame Thorn.

Nets suck WHY do i watch the games?? Sucks

Confucius say, “Nets like five fingers that cannot make fist.”

I totally blame myself for this one. I forgot there was a game on so early, and I tuned in just as the 3rd quarter was getting under way and they had a huge lead. You know the story from there.

And what was that all about with Yi hopping on the elliptical like he is Amare or some stud they need to “keep fresh!?”

The salary of coach can’t be saved.

Jarvis Hayes scored 2 points? No, don’t ever pick up a scorer from D-League!
  
LAST NIGHT IN D-LEAGUE
REGGIE WILLIAMS—didn’t play
ALEXANDER JOHNSON—didn’t play
MIKE HARRIS—16 points (8-17), 9 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 blocks.
DWAYNE JONES—26 points (10-17), 26 rebounds (12 offensive), 2 blocks, 1 steal, 1 assist.
  
Mike Harris had an off-game after dropping 30 points the night before, but his team won easily. He’s much better than Jarvis Hayes.
  
Dwayne Jones is just a rebounding monster. This is his second straight game of at least 20 boards. Imagine a power forward like that!
  
For those wondering about Alexander Johnson, he had about two NBA seasons as a deep backup. He’s only played 10 D-league games this year. If there’s a knock, it’s that he might be 6’8" and not 6’9", although he has an amazing vertical leap. See http://cache.nba.com/dleague/players/.
  
There’s an open spot on the roster and some dead wood (Tony Battie), but the Nets still do nothing.

Dwayne Jones could contribute close to 10-10 per game if he played for the Nets as starting powerforward.Whats his “D” like? He can grab boards but could he cause trouble for the good powerforwards in this league?

Everyone admitted brook should have gotten more touches, but DH says its 50/50 “Brooks fault, and our fault”
Cmon Devin.
I’m strtig to think DH doesn’t want Brook to shine.
The 1st Q was perfect

Nets suck WHY do i watch the games?? Sucks

Dwayne Jones played all the D in college at St. Joseph’s, where he played with Jameer Nelson and Delonte West and averaged 11+ rebounds.
  
The point is here’s a solid big who can rebound and won’t hurt your salary cap. You need guys like that.
  
Much better than Jamie Feick, if anyone remembers him. Feick could rebound, but wasn’t mobile and really couldn’t play a lick of defense or offense.

Memphis also adjusted.

I was at the game and Kiki’s lack of INTERACTION is inexcusable. He sat on the bench more than I sat in my seat. ANYONE would have done a better job and won that game. There may be no motivation, but letting all those young players go without guidance is going to kill the development of the few pieces we should be keeping for the next few years.

@ Net Income

So what did Gay say about potentially joining the Nets / if losing impacts free agent decisions?

After reading comments here I don’t understand why Lee is getting a free pass here. Lee is just god awful, how many bad games can you have. The guy was so suppose the be the main piece for the VC trade beside cap room. At this point I don’t even feel is a nba starter.

Lee, Yi both starters that has shown nothing.

Yi and Lee both suck… Only 2 out of 5 NBA stars on this team…no surprise why weeeee stink!!!!!

Please we need serious changes at the sg sf and pf…

Kiki OBVIOUSLY should have been released of his duties the during the all-star break or better yet when Del took off. Has this team even THOUGHT of reaching out to Fratello to see if he might be interested in trying to steer the team to the 5 more wins it needs to avoid the most embarassing record any team could ever have next to its ledger????

@ Net income

let me ask you another question, could the Nets bring in someone from outside the organization just for the remainder of the season (like Fratello) legally? or would they only be allowed to stay within the organization.

Andy,
are we talking bout the same David Lee? him and lopez together is beasy

It’d be really nice to have a power forward who could defend. At this point I wouldn’t even care if he only scored 3 points a night, as long as every power forward in the league with a pulse couldn’t go for 20 & 10 on him.

@ Andy, I assume they’re talking about Courtney Lee.

“After reading comments here I don’t understand why Lee is getting a free pass here.”

He shouldn’t be. Yi is an 8th man on average NBA team, Lee is more like a 10th or 11th man – the only real action he should be seeing is in practice. The scouting that either was or was not done on him was a complete failure. Trading a perennial all-star that still has another solid 2-3 years in his tank for a scrub like this is simply inexcusable and shows how little interest this management group had in even putting a competitive product on the floor.

Just wondering, did anyone who went to the game accept one of the Yi posters being handed out at the exits?

All of this is on the coach! He has no sub pattern, no d, no plays, no “fire” He should never play Yi! The rest of the season should be on trying to win games with the vets and a few young guys like Lee, and maybe Hump.TWill neds to play in the D-league to get some concept of the game. Only good thing Kiki does is not to play tweeterCDr!

Btw. VC made two smart plays in crunch time to lead the Magic over the Cavs today. He drew the defense toward him and found Howard under the rim for two and also attacked the defense and found Lewis in the corner for a dagger three. The knowledge of how to win left with Kidd and Carter.

Fratello for coach, Mark jackson or Ewing as assistants. One of the new players next year has to be a rebounding “monster”, one needs to be a “shooter” and one has to be a “d” specialist who has at least some offensive talent. Please lose Yi, TWill, and TweetDr

@andy,
o yeah, your talking about courtney lee right???

Memphis did a good job of making it really hard to get the ball to Lopez in the second half. Its not like the nets were like, “yeah, Lopez killed them in the first half when we got him the ball, lets NOT do that anymore”. They would try to get him the ball and turn it over a few times and then be afraid to do it more. Most of the second half posessions looked like: Lopez post up, good positioning by memphis, Nets going plan B with Lopez/Boone/Whoever pick and roll, well defended by memphis, post up again, well defended, pick and roll again, nothing happens, etc., until there’s 5 seconds left on the shot clock and the nets either force a 3 or a reckless drive into the crowded paint.

Having said that, the fact that Memphis simply made an effort to deny Lopez the ball, and had good pick and roll defense, and as a result of these two things were able to completely shut down our offense, is disheartening and pathetic. I would (like to) think under a better coach things would be different.

The VC trade was a good one. VC didn’t show up until the 4th qtr today. I’m glad we traded him. Better a year before than a year after. Mark Jackson and JVG were killing him for blending in and being average. And Ryan Anderson didn’t leave the bench. Frank has to get some credit for getting as many wins as he did out of this team last year. Most coudn’t start on most NBA teams.

@ FrankC

Camby would fit the bill, but he’s too old unless we pick up a top tier FA to make up competetive instantly.

@ Paul B and Frank C, the knicks clearly aren’t going to bring Lee back if they really plan on going after two max players. He’d be the perfect fit.

Van Gundy and Jackson had egg on their faces after VC made the winning plays right after they dissed him. But then that is not unusual for them.

@supreme
A “trade” implies that you get something for giving up something. That did not happen. We got nothing for VC or RJ. We would have been better off just giving them both away.

@ robby, we got cap space, for all those free agents who will be lining up to sign with a 5 win team. And if we get the #1 pick we can say we got John Wall for it. I really wouldn’t have a problem if they came out and said their plan was to be as bad as possible for multiple years to get multiple lottery picks and have a turn around like Portland/OKC have had.

Courtney Lee is a good player. No one mentions on here that he played last season in Orlando and had so much more room to operate. I understand he hasn’t performed up to that level this season but we don’t have Dwight Howard and a plethora of 3 point shooters. Lee also has value as a defensive player.

I also remember people on here last year saying “we should draft courtney lee”

Lee is the last guy to sell low on. If we get a legitimate stud in here next year to take the pressure off, Lee would thrive in more of a jump shooting and attack-off-help scenario.

good balance of minutes for all our “reserve” big men, yi, boone and hump (around 20 mins each)
cdr dnp? lee didn’t have a particularly good game but got 40 mins. the kid should shut up and do all the talking on the court but kiki benching him? wtf? kiki should just challenge the kid, “ok you like to talk? go in there and back it up! btw, scoring is easy so do it on defense!!!” oh right, kiki can’t say that because a chair could play better defense than the defense kiki played his whole career.

This game was lost when KIKI took out Humphries and put in YI, it was no coincidence that we made our run with him on the bench. We weren’t shooting lights out but we were getting a lot of offensive rebounds by Humphries, and others. The physicality and energy picked up when him and Boone were on the floor along with Lopez. I don’t mea to pick on YI but the kid is lost defensively, yeah he shot well today, but it you look at the flow of the game it was kind of token shots because he would miss rebounds forget to box out, or even help defend. He really needs to come off the bench if anything.

Ohh yeah and CDR’s contract will be picked up, and he will be with this team next year playing productive minutes. The problem is the coach he just doesn’t know what he is doing and is killing the spirit and souls of our young players lol. Seriously tho its bad and nobody respects him, even hoopsworld was questioning his substitution pattern.

CDR should just tweet about kiki he’ll be the most popular net among fans!!! he is not playing anyway and kiki will be gone after this season.

Kiki, Zeke has a spot for you at FIU: Ball Boy.

Hollah!

The more I watch this team I realize that we are at our best when we control the ball grind it out, play defense and rebound. Not continue to run and gun, Yi just doesn’t fit that mold, it doesn’t mean he should never play but just not start, if he looks like he is hurting the team on the defensive end more than helping on offensive sit him down. Should be that easy but obviously there are more things at work here in the background.

I Hate Kiki!

How do you say go back to China in Chinese???

HIRE FRANK!!!

(Get it get it!!!)

@Panareal:

hui jia (go home)

hui zhongguo (go back to china)

hui is pronounced “who-way” really quickly (combine to 1 syllable) almost like “hway”.
jia is pronounced “gee-ya” really quickly (combine to 1 syllable) almost like a european would say “ja”.

I’m no Yi fan, but “hui jia” is too mean to chant at the game.

Hey Kiki, how about telling your team to stop taking so many damn 3 point shots? Tell them to take it to the basket, tell Lopez to fight for position and stop being so damn soft…tell them to etc. etc.

This team is just too soft and too stupid to win games and they have an idiot for a head coach.
 
They deserve to set the all time NBA worst record, because they play like the worst team to have ever taken the NBA court..

It’s a shame what Kiki is doing to CD-R. This kid is BY FAR the most talented wing we have, yet Kiki doesn’t play him, even if Hayes has been absolutely invisible as of late, and Lee does little else other than hustling on D. People talk about Kiki’s love for Yi, but his other pets (Hayes and Lee) alse receive special treatment from this clown.

Btw, another solid performance by Josh Boone, who’s been a solid contributor since getting back into the rotation. He should get more PT.

if the league will make games last the 1st and 2nd quarters only the Nets will be like 40-10

:( :( :( :(

lame

i was there… sat 5 rows behind kiki… this guy is clueless!!! i am a season ticket holder who is about to burn the reat of my tix!

LMAO! @Panareal, don’t believe a word JohnY is telling you. He’s messing with you and trying to trick you into saying “Marry me” to Yi.

The correct way of saying “go home” in Chinese is “Jia Gay Wo”.

Memphies did a better job on lopez in second half….alot of turnover in second half….

Mayo and rudy gay ..took over..

thats why Nets lost…

You can hang this one mainly on the PGs: 16 missed shots, 4 missed FT, and 11 turnovers. Harris is an awful PG. What were they thinking when they touted him as the face of the franchise?