Nets Pull Off Shocker in Boston

YES, BABY!

Outstanding victory!!!

Best day of the year!

Yi was benched = Win!!!

NETS WIN!

6 never felt so good!

wow…… thought we were gonna lose it in the end….but kiki did something amazing….HE BENCHED YI >>>AND PLAYED HUMPS….. he saved his job …siiikeeeee

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY so excited!

Humphries was great.

Lee was great.

Lopez is a STAR

Winning feels good. :D

Wow. I am shocked! Good job nets.

Such a nail biter….Amazing Win…

Lee played well i hope he’s ok….

Yi is too weak on defense…Hump isnt great but at least is better then Yi.

Congrats Nets!!1 Great win against one of the easts elite

Yi benched in the forth means a win.

I’m gonna go stick a spoon in my mouth before I have a seizure! That even topped Kidd clocking Mike Woodson last night.

It really looked bad at the end. if ray allen didnt miss that 92-98 three we probly wouldve lost. AMAZING. Way to keep their composure and exucute late. GO NETS!!!!

Any word on C.Lee’s injury? i really hope it isnt serious hes satrted playing so well

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

CDR GOT PTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!

Yi 30 mins. 2-12FG 10 reb 1 stl 4 pts 0-0FT

Hump 23 mins 2-4 10 reb 4 stl 11pts 5-6FT

Am I the only one that sees this?

Kiki , News Flash: Yi sucks .

Minus the first 3-4 minutes and the last 3-4 minutes, this was the best game of the year! Excellent overall effort, smart cuts, relentless d, and Yikes on the bench. For only 4 points CDR made his presence felt and of course Harris/Lee/Hump/Brook all shined. Exactly the way you win! YES, BABY!!!

Yeah it would suck if just win C.Lee was starting to turn it on he gets hit with a serious injury. But considering our luck this year I wouldn’t be shocked.

YES!!!!

win the all the remaining games…

by the way.. Harris is 27 now…

HAHAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT CELTICS!

i never thought we would win against boston… biggest upset in the history of NBA!! hahaha..

Nice! I loved it!

Happy birthday Devin!

Yes, now Media can’t say that Nets can only beat Charlotte.
Media will bury Boston.

Wish only that Kiki would admit his mistakes in PT for Yi/Hump/CDR, but not likely. Kiki is a stubborn guy.

Now lets just worry about CLee’s ankle and about that Tsunami that’s headed for Hawaii in minutes from now.

Can put back the real news now. Break from sports.

trade Yi while his stock is still hi— oops

The NBA: where “how the heck did they do that?” happens…

Great Win, hope CLee is ok, wish it was Yi instead…

i feel like we jus won game 7 of the finals ……. AMAZING win lets go for a win streak tomorrow

Thank you so much Nets. Excellent game today, we finally see what the Nets can be capable of if everyone plays their hardest for the full 48 minutes. Oh and I’m especially happy because I HATE ALL THINGS BOSTON!

Kiki better take fill advantage of this W!
send out those resumes!!!

only with the nets do you still feel nervous with an 18 point lead with 5 minutes left do you still feel as if the team is going to loose, but they did not. and the Hump saved the game with the missed travel called made it an 8 pt lead late

Lee is shooting 45% and 37% from 3 since January 1st. Hopefully he’s alright. He has really opened things up for Lopez over the last couple of months.

Yi Jialian = 2/10 shooting. Thank you for benching him in the 4th. Had it played it may have been 2/15 by the end of the game with no defense.

Unexpected win against the Celtics…. I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot today without even leaving the house lol.

This feels like Golden state win over Mavs which Harris was apart of!

if Doc actually played KG this might not be a net win. the nets really did a great job taking advantage of teh strechtches of time where garnett did not play.

great game!! Happy Birthday DH

I know I said I wont watch any Nets game for the remainder of the season… but I couldn’t help it… because I am a Nets fan.

Aside from the first few and last minutes, I thought overall as a team we played pretty well. The Celtics could’ve had this game if they made those wide open shots. Our Bigs got a lot of calls going there way today, so we got to the fts and built an early lead. Our guards, especially Keyon and Lee hit some big 3s to stop the celtics when ever they made a run.

The Celtics got a lot of easy basket towards the end, and I thought that we would’ve lost the game… but luckily we didn’t.

Overall good team win.

huge win. everyone looked great. hump double double was nice too. he could end up being our starter at 4 if we get our studs in turner and joe johnson

Yikes! Uhm, not everybody looked great, redemption!

WHy we beat the celtics?? Because we didnt have to face Eddie House…that guy killed the nets everytime…

SOO HAPPY! Go Nets….

Anyway we can swap out the Cavs for the bobcats wednesday?

is it 2003 again???? great game, so satisfying.

please trade Yi – he stinks

Finish the rest of the season strong to attract free agents

Imagine if the Nets beat the Cavs on Wed? I know its a long shot but hey, The Nets beating the Celtics killed all of my skepticism

I called the winning strategy at beginning of 4th quarter.

Keep Yi out of remainder of game and Nets win!

Anyone know why Hayes didn’t play?
Hassell does have more energy.
Neither is a good option, but then neither will be on team next year unless Vets. Min.

Excellent effort and poise today to take advantage of a Celtic team without Pierce. Not taking anything away. Saying you gotta take advantage and stay focused for the whole game.
And I think it’s becoming clear that Lopez, Harris, and Lee are the core…if they all can stay healthy.

Great win!

Yi is DREADFUL though. It sickens me that he even plays. Harris/Brook/Lee looked pretty good hopefully courtney is ok.

@ Andy – Next Saturday.

BEST WIN OF THE YEAR!!!

Beat the Cavs on Wednesday? I don’t even think they’ll win tomorrow vs. Washington! In fact, I know they’ll lose but who cares tho? This was a BEAUTIFUL team win today!

Wooooooohooooo!!!!:)))))

Thank you Nets, thank you for a great evening up here in Slovenia!!!

New Jersey Nets 104, Boston Oldies 96

:)

GO NETS GO!!!

Hmmm trending topic on twitter #Netswin lol. I will say this against the Celtics and Cavs for some reason we play well. Celtics are looking old, they all looked overmatched on Lopez when he gets space, thats what a superstar would bring, space for Lopez the future is bright…..Courtney Lee is starting to pick it up.

Watch; by Monday some Media, so called experts, will be saying that Nets just might be better off with Evan Turner.

I wonder who will be the first to write this. Hope our own beat writers beat them to it.

CLee would be needed to beat Wizards. Otherwise there would be a letdown and Wiz should still be the favorite.

I doubt Lee will play, even with a minor sprain.

Haa I haven’t heard Devin sound like this in so long,he’s stuttering lol I’m happy for the players man.

@ David in Slovenia:
Spread the word all over the world, Nets beat Boston in Boston!!!

I wish I had the chance to watch YES Postgame…

Atronic can you just briefly sum up what did they ask Devin and what did he say…I mean it may be obvious but I’m just curious to know.

LOL @ Devin talkin about “The Hump Dipsy-Do!”

If they are going to blosom is because they play to their strength, meaning they took good shots by their better players, if they just limit Yi’s minutes or shots to just 3 per game.

i was about to sleep when i read the news on twitter.. thank God there’s netsdaily and netsbasketball on twitter.. btw Filipino here living in saudi arabia.. solid nets fan.. :D

BrooklynJohnny you can be sure about that. A Nets cap will be with me on Monday on my way to Ljubljana:-)

In addition to that I’ll let everybody know about it tomorrow when we gather @ my friend…

Also, since there are many Slovenian players in the NBA you can be pretty sure everybody will know it tomorrow.

Yi is THE worst playing in Nets history, honestly

The Hump Dipsy-Do

Hmm…what is that?:)…I follow the Nets but haven’t heard of it:)

@ David, they basically asked him how they attacked boston, how they came out with the win. He was like we swung the ball well, and attacked their defense, and when Courtney came out Keyon filled in nicely, was a great birthday present. But he was speaking as fast as he played today, you saw genuine smiles from players funny.

@ Slovenian David:
Devin was just laughing the whole time, he didn’t say anything major, just in a good mood while looking shocked. He talked about that pivot move (travel no call) that Humphries (Hump’s Dipsy-Do) made as being huge.

Thanks to both of you Atronic and BrooklynJohnny:)

I like that nickname Johnny…:)…I think I’ll use it:)

I actually completely forgot about the Wizards game, but yeah even after shipping off their stars and losing Arenas they still have a pretty decent team left.

I have the NBA internet package and they only had the Boston feed so I basically had to listen to those idiot announcers bitch about calls the whole night, take some shots at the Nets (“Think they’re gonna win the title?”), and laugh at Courtney Lee when he twisted his ankle (“There’s no crying in basketball” — not that he was crying). So to pin one on the Celtics was just too sweet.

@ Silenthero:
Cool that the Nets have fans worldwide who enjoyed today’s game. I hope in future years you, after the Nets sign some quality free agents, you and David will have many-many-many moment like this!

Yeah, KD I heard that too. “Think they’re gonna win the title?”…Well in the end I’m sure they pretty quickly quit the arena..=)

To be honest I’ve been calling the C’s for the whole evening by the name of Boston Oldies :-)

@ KD SMH it’s funny we have the best announcers everyone else’s are such homers it’s disgusting, like Sean Elliot in San Antonio.

I wonder what the good fellas at NBA TV will say tonight, Steve Smith gives us love sometimes.

WIN!!!!!

Get rid of YI the sucker and we can win more!!

@BrooklynJohnny

Yeah, honestly said tonight it felt like I hadn’t watched a Nets Basketball for about a year…:)

But tonight they were great. Alley-oops, and 1’s, solid D, everything was pretty good.

Devin got called for a borderline palm and also for a backcourt violation which turned out to be a “tip” on the replay, so it balances out.

Tsunami about to hit Hawaii guys.
Time to tune out of sports for a while.

Brook needs to work on his D. every time a little man comes in the paint Brook leaves his man, and as soon as he does the little guy dishes for a wide open dunk. This happened 3 straight plays responsible for 8 points and it scared the crap out of me. Thank GOD! I am from Boston and this could not be sweeter.

@BrooklynJohnny

yah.. actually i became a fan during the big three era.. and of course because of vince.. but after his departure i just cant find a way to switch teams to orlando.. so i stayed with the nets.. yah it was so frustrating to see them with a record like this.. but what the heck we beat the celtics.. :)) i just wish they sign good players during the free agency.. lets make this the biggest turnaround in basketball history.. heheh..

This should be the rotation: Hopefully they play Simmons for at least one game.
Lopez/Yi/Battie
Humpries/Johnson (D-league)
Simmons/Hassell/Hayes
Lee/Williams
Harris/Dooling

Youth, baby. Youth.

@ jerry25:
W/ 12 hours of warnings Hawaii should be OK. Well compared to Chile and especially Haiti at least. Let’s hope so at least…

(I’m keeping the same name since Slovenian David required moderation…and I am not sure whether you guys have seen my previous posts…)

Just like silenthero07 I became the fan when Vince came to NJ. But not because of him. It was just that I started to followe NBA at that time and selected the Nets as my team. During my visit in NYC I even attended a Nets game @ Izod Center in 2008 (Nets vs. Suns) This season, though, has been tough for me as a fan…But after the game like this everything seems so nicer. I don’t know about you guys but I feel like we’ve just won a playoff series. :-)

lets all pray for the regions/countries that are affected of the tsunami warnings… and of course for the people that died in chile.. NBA CARES.. NETSFANS CARES..

@ silenthero:
I liked Vince but he wont get any better. Howard’s gonna dominate for years, but In the long run you’ll be happy that you stuck w/the Nets.

yi，go back to guangdong

now if we can beat the wizards and compete with cavs and magic ill be happy.

ok time to sleep.. got work tomorrow.. i mean later.. it’s 12:21 in the morning here.. NETS WIN!!!! lets get pass the worse record.. that will be great.. :D

Yijianlian，it is time to dong dong qiang !
Do u need a banana?

Good night silenthero07:-)

Stick to the Nets!:-)

@ David:
Vince? Thought for sure you must have been a Boki fan. Anyways, as a native New Yorker, it’s good to see that even people in Slovenia and Saudi Arabia follow this team. Hopefully after they move to Brooklyn, they’ll have a greater world wide following.

@ Silenthero:
NOT to get political on a sports forum, but if anyone wants to contribute to help w/Haiti there is a good non-profit called “Parters in Health”

Anyways, signing off now, go NETS! Ciao tutti mondo!!!

Alright, I’m gonna go as well. You see: I gotta catch the 2nd run of men slalom on the Olympics. A Slovenian racer was 2nd in the 1st run and may bring us the 4th medal on the Olympics which would be great.

I apologize if my posts were a bit off-topic but since the Nets just won a great game I hope it is understood that I got carried away a bit:)

Good night to everyone down there!

Keep Kiki

Hollah!!

Oh just to conclude:

I’m a big Boki fan. But Vince was here prior to Boštjan. That’s why I referred to him. And I admit it: I was very sad when Boki left the Nets. I really enjoyed those seasons when he was still on the team.

Seriously??? No kidding?

I cherished this victory. I was certain we would blow the lead and i’m glad I was wrong. Let’s try for two in a row, just a couple days of this roster not losing a game might help mentally

I am so excited!!! They got me nervous the last 3 minutes, but they did it, they did it!! Played for 48 minutes at last! Great, great win. I hope they can build from this and keep it going.

I was snowboarding today and missed the game. Funny that I get back to condo and go direct to netsdaily. And I have learned now that I can learn much more about the game from reading everyones comments rather than these lazy out of town journalists.

Funny how everyone here comments on benching Yi all 4th quarters and finally he’s benches and we win. Maybe Yi should start getting dnp coaches decision from now on. And then replace him with boone. Glad to hear cdr had a good game. See what happens when he plays.

Watching the DVRed game now (5:25pm) and enjoying it, knowing that we pulled off an upset and I can follow along with the NBA site play by play…I know it is cheating, but I want to really enjoy this win. Celtics have looked awful lately. They miss Pierce and Garnett looks bad too. Young Spanish girl who did play by play on Celtic’s feed was really hot! Even old Tommy H worked to steal a kiss from her! Unexpected and surprising win. GO FOR TWO IN A ROW VERSUS WASH Tomorrow. GO NETS!

omg omg omg i forgot to watch the game omg omg i forgot to watch the game omg omg omg i for got to WATCH THE FREAKIN GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 in a row?

Excellent win. The team needs much more productivity out of the forward spots though. A draft pick and a free agent, and this team could be the up and coming team no one wants to play next year. Like the Hawks of a few years back, or the Thunder this year.

Holy crap

I managed to catch some of this at the gym, the defense was pretty crisp. Harris and Lee looked good. They really have turned it on this month and I’m proud of both of them. Keep it up, I hope Lee isn’t hurt too badly.

Yi just doesn’t need to play more than 10 mins a night. Nice to see CDR get some minutes and be fairly productive. His body language in the huddles looked a lot better too, i hope he has finally calmed down and wants to play basketball and contribute.

Thank you Nets, at least we have one good memory to go with this dreadful season.

I took a few weeks off from watching Nets games, too frustrating. Luckily, I tuned in today. I noticed a few things since taking that break, and they were much more apparent because I hadn’t seen them in a while…

1- Harris has a lot more energy, and confidence.
2- Lopez is still a force, even if he isn’t scoring
3- Dooling is SO valuable
4- Lee has way more confidence, and seemed completely healed until he sprained his ankle!!
5- Yi is still inconsistent
6- CDR plays better defense
7- They actually are a better defensive team.
8- Humphries may have changed the culture of the Nets
9- Even Marv Albert didn’t seem negative.

OMG! Who would thought about it! YES YES YES

Lets get a big turnout tomorrow baby! Gotta get 2 in a row! lol i am hoping so badly. Go nets. Keep YI on the bench

I decided I would rather go over my tax return with my accountant than watch the Nets again. I get back in time to watch the final 5 minutes, expecting to see another Ground Hog Day ending but the Nets didn’t let it happen. Congrats, Nets, and gonets for sucking me back in. I am still not going tomorrow or Wed though.

still a little concerned about Rajon Rondo having more assists than our entire team… combined. We need a PG that passes.

Great win. Hey guys, don’t get too excited that Yi was benched. He didn’t play that bad. He was good on the defensive end. He had 10 boards and a block and a steal. His contribution was on the denfensive end.

Wow. I would have never thought they were going to pull this one off. I was listening to the game on WFAN and after that initial 10-2 lead by the Celtics I immediately turned it off, it just got me that frustrated. What a shocking upset, perhaps the biggest so far in the NBA this season. Granted, we only won this game because Paul Pierce wasn’t in the lineup but still….this is a season-changing win for a team that needed one 30 games ago. The only thing I wish is that we are able to end this season in the right direction so free agents would consider us. This is the first step in the right direction. Lee has really stepped up his game that past week or two and I hope this injury is nothing serious.

Great win! I missed the game but I was shocked to see we beat the celtics. As usual Yi put up pathetic numbers. Move him to the bench!!

even in a win, yi hate lives on…he had a crappy game but give the guy his due…10 rebounds…he aint a starter but if someone is not contributing in one area the most you can ask is for him to give effort in another and that’s what he did…cdr is a scorer but i suspect kiki is telling him to limit his shots…

This was either going to be the best win or the worst loss of the season. With about 3 minutes to go I didn’t know which. Glad we hung on and it became the BEST!

@ Tim -The job of a center is to HELP out when his wings get beaten. The problem is, however, that the Nets wings get beaten off the dribble too often, so Brook is exposed, and it looks like Brook is a bad defender to those who know little about Basketball. Brook is arguably the most fundamentally sound player in the East today. No lie.

yi really needs to learn how to fish for fouls and go to the line…that’s how he can get his offensive game going whenever it’s in the gutter…the vince carter move of looking like he got a whiplash everytime he gets bumped is a start…shouting in pain everytime someone swipes at the ball is good as well… :)

Two straight road wins.

robin lopez with a brook impersonation 30pts on 13-16 plus 12 rebs against the clips

I am not watching the rerun of the game, I am afraid they might loose!

lmao Marco

2nd the LOL @ Marco

Yi is 2 for 12. Why, someone tell me, is he still starting? He is shooting like 20 % in February.

Great result. Really made my day, week, month.

Just a thought, but what’s happened to quinn? I know with Dooling back and Twill also in for Point duties Quinn is unlikely to get many/any minutes, but i can’t even remember seeing him on the bench of late.

Quinn was wearing a suit on the bench, I don’t think that would change in the reran tonight!

Where are the videos of interviews with Nets players I can’t find them anywhere. were there any?

JJ22 said “Great win. Hey guys, don’t get too excited that Yi was benched. He didn’t play that bad. He was good on the defensive end.”

WHAT!!! Are you nuts? I’m glad he got 10 RBs, but he left Garnet open all the time. Time after time Yi walked away from Garnet to help in the lane and KG was all alone to get the kick out and short jumper. Yi is lost on D, just has no clue.

Got to hand it to the coach, he yanked Yi at the right times for Hump, played CDR and TWill good minutes and generally made all the right substitutions. Hope he builds on this.

Glorius, Outstanding, Miracle, Insane Win 4 the Nets

Wow

Lame for lee’s sore knee.

hope you get well soon son.

For the Harris trade-askers: Harris is back FAGS!!!!

all-star level once again!!!!

Yi sucks :D :D :D :D

Wow, and i mean wow. Very nice win!

Guess when we saw our old captain have one of the performances of the decade last night, we can also pull something out of no where.

@geo
Yi is starting and getting big minutes for “personal” reasons.
Even the Chinese bloggers are asking him to go back home to Guangdong.

I’ll bet Thorn is not happy with Kiki’s decision. Kiki must be allied with Yormarket. Yi could be in the center of this power struggle, as Kiki tries to get back his GM position. We haven’t heard the last of this. Yi is making them look really bad and it has affected the rest of the players.

The right thing to do is start Boone over Yi against Wiz, to get a rested body and to give Lopez and Hump rest for the 4th quarter. Besides, Yi can’t defend Blatche (not even worth trying).

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THORNS DECISION TO PICK UP Yi’s 4 million dollar option is looking poorer by the day. That money would go a long way towards having enough cap space for 2 FA’s. Let’s hope Yi is traded on draft night. But knowing old do nothing Rod, I doubt it.

Yeah Yi was good on defense especially when his mental lapse screwed up the rotations to give up a layup to Rondo after he had turned the ball over on the ensuing offensive possession. Then on the next play he didn’t get the timing of the pick and roll with Harris leading to a bad shot. <<< This is all in 30 seconds of floor time. He was pulled after less than a minute of game action in the 4th and because of it Lopez was gassed. If anyone was wondering why Brook didn't contribute more on offense in the fourth

Thanks Marco. Looks like ive go bench blindness.

@Scott
Just kidding, there is bench blind, just like color blind, usually coaches catch that!

That is a serious waste of 4 million dollars.

If you think signing the historic bust for 4 million for next week is bad, wasn’t it just last week we read that the “Nets like Yi”. I don’t know what’s worse the Nets record or the team’s agenda. I think it’s funny that it took almost 2 years for some people to figure out he sucks. Yi is like the great looking partner (his popularity) that someone tries to show off but as soon as they open their mouth you want to hide (his basketball skill). If that person is good looking and smart themselves (any good b-ball team) they dump that partner asap. Only the ones who can’t get any better (the broke Nets) hold on and are blinded.