Man man man…man

Dang Brook Lopez taking the worst dang shots on the court, again. Well Garnet took worse forced shots, but his went in.

And whats with him getting angry with the Hump when they hit the ball in the Celtics basket… like Brook was upset because normally hump should have known that Brook was the best rebounded on the team?

They just gave Allen more trade value

Devin 2 turnovers short of a double double. He is the man, just ask him.

GREAt overall effort. i was happy with yis late baskets to help the nets, he was okay. But point:

Lopez. He is the most infuriating player! He doesnt pass the ball at all. he forces those ugly off balnced shots, and then whines like a little baby. did u see when he tipped it in along wid humphries? he got so mad at kris, when he, like an idiot made the play.

Harris: Classic hariis. stupid transition threes, ill advised jumpers and they were costly! he took 3 shots that couldvve helped teh nets and actually let the nets win.

how bout CDR? proving he is 6th man worthy, if kiki would only put him in in the 1st quarter!!!

Devin Harris single handedly handed the victory to the Celtics in the last few minutes of the game. This team desparately needs a pass-first PG.

They just gave CDR more trade value too
(9 pts 3 rebs in 10:19 mins)

Humphries sucks

Rajon Rondo is 3 times better then Devin Harris in every single aspect of the game…except maybe flopping, Devin’s great at that.

I think and I’m hoping that CDR is getting traded soon (to salvage his career), he’s the last man on the rotation despite doing well and clearly the Nets have no intention of making him their 6th man. Hopefully it’s Memphis, so I get even more reason to watch their games I’ve been paying for and missing on LP.

Why do the nets commentators annoy me so much? It seems like they always laugh at the nets and then get excited when Boston scores.

Anyway maybe if Hump go on board
Maybe if Lopez didnt score for Boston
Maybe if Yi could play basketball
maybe is devin didnt shoot 5 3’s that were pointless
we may have won

CDR had 9 pts, 3 rebs in 10:19 mins. Good interlude CDR. This was a winnable game..

Man, Harris is a psycho.

btw: lpz & hump, why u guys ran for the SAME rebound?!?!

I gotta say Yi’s defense has been improving. KG only held to 10 pts even though it maybe due to the injury. R. Wallace only had 7 pts.

I really don’t know y Kiki took Yi out and put Hump at 2:40 i the 4th qtr when we were only down by 4. As soon as Yi sit, the Celtics score 5 staight pts.

I mean I understand if a player need to be sit if not playing well. Yi had made 2 jump shots with the shot clock winding down…..

I would love to see Yi getting better on the defense so that he can get his confidence back on the offensive side. I also like the Yi has been passing the ball more often.

Ball movement is very important to create easy shot for the teammate and yourself!

Trade Harris pls, I dont wanna see him again.

overall good game
boston showed their championship poise in the last 6 minutes
NJ was close to a win.
Funky shots, bad D, bad offensive plays.
CDR is a baller noone should doubt that
Brook needed the ball more
this team needs to put Lee, Hayes, and Brook in the triangle and give the ball to brook on the side where lee and Hayes sit at the 3 point line.
Teams will not be able to double and if they do the 3 is wide open or the weakside can cut.
Sheed was in foul trouble so the ball should have went to brook down low.
Bad coaching in a winnable game.
3 more games until the break…….

Hey Humphries! The objective is to score against the opponent, not against your own team!

@ I Says

You are rignt about Lopez. Actually, I am not a Slopez but I do think he has lots of talent and maybe even a future all star in the long run.

The problem is he believes he is already an all star and should get all the calld from the Referee. And end whining all the time.

Talk about the way he is with the teammate? I guess all of you saw it tonight with the way he is with Hump. And I believe it is worst with the way he is with Yi due to the language barrier.

Trade Harris! Trade Harris! He only want to try the terrible shot not pass the ball.Harris handed the victory to the Celtics .

I mean I am not a Slopez’s fan

bogutfan has it right.. Watching a pg like harris is unbearable. get rid of him already before his value is zero

My points:
1.Lopez is god as usual but showing anger with your teammate on the court is not so proper.
2.Yi’s D is OK.He deserve to take a few 3 point shots during the last 3 minutes.
3.Harris should not hava taken those forced shots during the last 3 minutes.
4.Our role players could not contribute much.

Wow. I have just noticed. Tonight is the first night that no one is blaming Yi for the lost.

Teams aren’t going to give you anything if Harris is having an offseason. May as well let Harris finish this season and see how he does next season. If he goes down the drain next season, then pull the plug.

It just doesn’t make sense to dump a player one year after he was an all-star

Humpries should start over Yi!!!

Yeah, we need Humphries to start over Yi, so Humphries can score more FGs against his own team, lol

guys kiki called the plays for harris to take those 3 look at them they were out of timeouts why he would do that is beyond me but kiki should have also put hump in to close out the game and maybe use cdr cause hayes is NOT agressive in the 4th, all he does is chuck up 3s as well and Yi defense was terrible once again garnett and wallace had alot of looks and devin or courtney were running to YI’S man and then not rotate to their man so while his guys were held in check devins and courts got great looks just ask eddie House. and why was Hayes in he was supposed to be gaurding Ray Allen and Allen found his way out of a shootin slump he went off for like 24 or 26 points ughhh. Yi must be one of the worst players in league

Humpries more effective when attacking the basket. Why all the fade away shots! Harris why do you keep throwing up the 3s. Getting better overall last 3 games we were in it.

Did anyone see how much of a baby Brook was when he and Hump hit the ball in the basket. Like get over it already. If Harris didn’t throw him that easy dunk and brook kept whining i was gonna drive up to boston myself. Yi played ok. Harris woulda played good if he didnt take a single 3 pointer. HEY DID ANYONE SEE THOSE DEVILLLLLLLLLLLLLS?

Yes he did miss open shots but he actually pass the ball more often. Less force shot. And his D is also improving. Plus he hit 2 clutch shots in the 4th to keep the Nets in the game.

You all can say how good Hump is but please realize Hump will never have the length and the offensive skills & range that Yi had.

On top of that is the market value.

Brook yelling at Humphries on court was pathetic. Yeah, Humphries does suck, but don’t yell at your own teamate on court. For a second there, it looked like Brook was going to pound Humphries into the ground.

@ hova34

If you complains about Yi’s defense. Please check the box score and you’ll see KG had 10 pts and Wallace had 7 pts. On the other hand R Allen had 26 pts, Rando had 17 pts.

Talking about bad defense???

@ hova34

You either falling asleep while watching the game or you just make your comment simply based on the ethnic….

Hump > Yi, so what he was 1 for 6 and scored 1 for the Celtics. He HUSTLES! Yi is the worst playa ebah… like till infinity+1 year!!!!

Blame the loss to Yi. Enough said!

Good ol’ Devin Harris loves to chuck threes he has no chance at making. I think he has succombed to the dark side and will never return to playing smart basketball. I’m sure Rod is working the phones on him. And Brook does not to grow up a little bit. He whines too much and the tantrum he threw when he and Humph knocked the ball in was uncalled for.

yi is crap…
twill/cdr are the next mj/pippen…
hollah! :)

Yi on top of being a poor individual defender has a low basketball IQ which leads to him also being a bad team defender. Oh yeah, and he’s soft. This kid is not the future on this team, period.

devin harris must think he is reggie miller!

Hump has higher basketball IQ than YI!!!

hump is so much smarter than yi…his bb IQ is through the roof!!!

T-Will is nice, it’s all about him getting his time on the floor and making his mistakes. We already see the vision he has, and it’s promising.

@ nets

If you READ what I wrote I explained why they were heard to such low numbers if you want watch nets encore and you will see what I’m talkin about Yi was not contestin there shots they were passin the ball once courtney or devin or hayes rotated to them making there numbers low and feedin ALLEN who was left open because no one rotated to help (YI) watch nets encore then come back and write I honest to God thought Yi was amazing when he came back from injury those first 8 games back ever since then he’s taken several steps back and is doing what he did LAST season

I love the Nets, but I have to say that Yi really sucks on defence (lacks basketball IQ).
The following guys must be traded:
Yi
CDR
Boone

Sometimes I think Yi should stay on the Nets side of the floor and not even run over to D up. He may be more productive that way

@ malorkayel & jirohkanzaki

Thank you. You two have helped me understand what is a “Nets Fan”

Hopefully Prokhorov will trade Yi asap.

Rondo plays with 3 all stars

Harris????

Did someone really say that twill/cdr are the next mj/pippen! Really! Really?

who needs basketball IQ when your country has $2 trillion in cash reserves and has the largest consumer market in the world?

@ Hova

Yi did rotate to help. In fact, he and slopez rorated the most in the entire team since none of our guards can stick with their man. People has been complaining about the player that Yi was guarding alway scored tons of pts. IT WAS BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO ROTATE TO THE MAN THE OUR GUARDS HAVE LOST.

When we can’t beat the other team, let’s get Humphries to score against us, lol. If you can’t beat them, well, then help them and beat yourself!.

Keep your all star Hump. TRADE YI ASAP as I am getting very sick of being a Nets fan.

Hey, Humphries had more more than 3 points tonight. He actually had 5. 1-6 FG against the Celts, and 1-1 FG agaisnt the Nets.

Humphries, you do know which side is the Celt’s basket, and which side is the Nets basket, right?

Somebody said that Lopez gets along well with Humphries. Yeah, they get along well – to the point where Lopez wants to pound Humphries into the ground.

Hollah!

Tonites game shows what little coaching is actually going on. Where are the offensive plays for late game/ close situations.Where is there any coherent offensive strategy?Harris did force a number of bad 3’s and Lopez is a major league baby with a lot of potential talent.But who should take these bad shots late in the game? All-Stars like Yi, Lee, and CDR?Subs like Hayes and Dooling? Get some guys who can make these plays under pressure like Allen and House did!

@hova34
i don’t believe you saw the game…yi not contesting kg and rasheed so lee and harris needed to run to kg and rasheed? that didn’t happen once! saying “watch nets encore” to prove it when no one is gonna do that only proves you’re lying and never saw the game.

yes yes i did say it…
twill/cdr are the next mj/pippen…IN THEIR OWN MINDS!
hollah!

i thought byron scott was the dumbest coach ever but kiki blows byron out of the stupidity waters!

Guys, why not stop talking about yi for a minute, give me some rest…..

Tonight we had a big game, until the last Q. Harris and lpz u two both need to grow up, no more irrational shots pls, no more shouting at ur teammate on the court pls (is it a 2+1?). Cant believe how nets hands victory to others every night, in the same way!

CDR had 9 pts, 3 rebs in THREE MINUTES after coming in to play in the 2d half. I was hoping he’d have more of a chance to “showcase” his talent, what with the trade rumor and all..

dallas lost! they are falling in the standings! at least this day was not totally lost…the nets can’t help themselves so we have to depend on luck! i hope that pick becomes at least the 19th pick…

I am not saying I dont like yi, I like the kid when he played well and dislike him when he played awful, but tonight (like a lot of other nights) hes just not the one to blame for nor the one to bring the fight.

simples ..Nets cant scores…thats why they loose..

Harris is a loose speeding train…

Nets guards never box out at all…

why cant lopez post closer to the basket?

I dont see yi post and drive anyone…he only standing from the 3 line and drive now…

kiki cant coach…

Alot of turnovers..

Harris came down when the Nets needed a 3 Pointer, with Yi WIDE open for a corner 3, and elected to take a very tough floater (missing). Question: Why? No faith in Yi? Desire to be an allstar? Something else?

@Jeff et al

CDR goes to the bench and immediately starts to perform better. What you’re doing is proving MY point.

why is D Harris shoots so many 3? he’s not a shooter..

Who scored the two field goals in late 4th Q to make it close? Guess what happened after Yi was taken out with 2 minutes to go, FIVE straight points to the Celtics!

basketball IQ lol, are there some tests u can run to measure that? maybe i will score higher than LBJ

is the paint area forbidden to the nets except lopez? i’ve rarely seen other nets player posts near the rim other than lopez, well yi did for like 8 games and guess what happened after

Devin Harris needs to just sit down. I almost threw my drink at the screen when i was at the bar earlier tonight watching this bonehead play. I am hard pressed to think of a starting PG in the NBA with a basketball IQ lower than his.

Overall, the team hung in there as best as they could against superior competition. If we had better coaching, accountability, and discipline instilled in our team we could have handed Boston their unmentionables on a plate.

CDR, 9 points, 3 boards off the bench. 2nd decent bench outing. He needs to shut his mouth, stop being sensitive, and keep playing hard.

Lee went 4-8, yet, Allen torches him for almost 30 points. His defense is average, his only solid quality is that he hustles on defense. Hopefully we land Wall or Turner so Lee will be on the bench where he belongs.

@Robert
The paint is Brook’s territory. See what happened to Yi. Mr. Lopez was not happy and started complaining to the media. Then you see what happened when he and Hump went for the same rebound tonight.

Lopez 6 rebounds in 41 plus minutes, Hump 8 rebounds in half the time. Lopez is getting lazy and thinks he doesn’t have to work hard. Rebounding is about effort. Lopez starting to believe all this talk about him should of being on the allstar team. Probably comong from Devin, allstar pg. What a joke of a team. What a joke of leadership from management on down. Proky needs to clean out this garbage ASAP.

I don’t whether the following information would make you net fans feel any better. Ryan Anderson, the player some of you miss so much, was 0-4 for FG, 1 rebound and scored no point against the Wizards when he came off the bench. Should we trade Yi or Hump for him before the deadline?

Courtney Lee had 12 points in 40 minutes while Ray Allen had 26.

Lee is garbage. Yes he was the “starting SG on a finals team”, but what has he done lately, AS A NET, that warrants him starting?? Besides not having a Twitter account, of course.

Only watched replay of game, cause Smallville, 2hr movie was on last night!

Saw replay of accidental tip in, and it was a “freak” play where either Kris or Brook by themselves had the board. Can’t fault Kris for hustle and I don’t want Brook to lose his competitive attitude. I’m sure there was no lasting animosity, but Brook has to learn that cameras are watching.

@JB
Hopefully Lee won’t be starting next year, if Nets get Evan Turner. However, for now, I don’t mind his starting, but more of his minutes should somehow go to CDR and TWill (Dooling’s minutes need to be limited). I guess the Nets feeling is that Lee would accept backup role next year, so he is a keeper.

CLee is content just to “show his stuff” using his own words. If CDR remains, he should become a better outside shooter next year and deserving of more SG minutes.

CDR is foolish to try to get himself traded in public, via Twitter. With a new coach, CDR would get another chance if he deserves one.

@ Russ

Please send a note to Van Gundy that he is stupid for putting a bum like RA on the court. Didn’t Van Gundy know that RA cannot shoot or rebound? Also, please tell Van Gundy that he should make all concerted efforts to obtain Yi. I’m sure he will appreciate your keen analysis based upon one game’s statistics. Without your help, Orlando, like every other team in the NBA, will continue to exhibit a complete lack of interest in our automatic starting POWER forward.

The bottom line is that RA was better than Yi, is better than Yi, and will always be better than Yi. RA going 0-4 in one game is no more indicative of RA’s ability than Yi going 2-13 is of Yi’s scoring ability. Both are good shooters and neither of those game stats are reliable indicators of their ability to score. If you want to learn to evaluate players, get your nose out of the stat book and watch the games, preferably with a DVR.

Agree with Robby.
Please tell Van Gundy to trade that Bum Ryan Anderson to the Nets for Yi. However, Yi earns 2x as much, so would have to work something out.

Yi wouldn’t need to play much D in Orlando, with Howard to back him up. Perfect fit.

Doubt Thorn would go along, because that would be admitting a mistake 1. to get Yi and 2. to trade away RA.

Ryan would accept the role of a reserve next year for Nets (unlike Yi and his agent) and he would satisfy the need for a shooting PF. For the remainder of this season, he would get plenty of PT and probably assists from Harris, Brook and TWill. Ryan would make everyone else better.

@ Nets

How was it being a Bucks fan 2 years ago?

“Hopefully Prokhorov will trade Yi asap.”

Why wait for Proky?

Yi is a robot, a statue, a stiff. I would like him more if he played 15 minutes and came off the bench, but we are stuck with this incredibly shrinking and stinking Yi. If they go into next year with him still starting and w/o a real SF, we are sunk.

@ GMJigga, Mr Dollar Bills, et al

RE: “CDR playing better from the bench”

I feel that CDR’s slump caused the scoring dropoff and that perhaps he has worked his way through it. Now we see a RETURN to production. Simple as that.

We can only speculate on what caused CDR to hit a wall. (Personally, I think it was the accumulated frustration of incessant losing.) Players are not automatons, but human beings.
.
It is noted that, minute for minute, CDR played harder and better than any Nets player last nite (9 pts, 3 rebs in 3 mins.) but was still sanctioned by only being allowed to play a total of 10 minutes. This extreme sanction (benched, minimum playing time) seems restricted to CDR. I think CDR’s continued scoring could have offset the loss differential last nite. I would have LOVED for the Nets to have beaten Boston and think it would’ve really helped the players feel better about this awful season.

It’s your opinion that CDR has been dogging it, deliberately slacking off, mailing it in, etc. I think he’s fought his way back from a slump that decreased his production for a minor portion of games this season. Did his slump and/or Twitter account cause the loss record? No. Is he being sanctioned unduly and disparately for it? Yes.

@ geo

If what you say is true, we are sunk. There is not the slightest hint that the plan for next year(s) is anything other than Yi, Lopez, Harris, and upgrades at the SG and SF.

Everyone on this board is SO NEGATIVE. We lost to one of the best teams in the NBA in a close game. We are one of if not the worst teams. Why are we blaming people?

Jeff,

It’s apparent that CDR being shut down after scoring 9 points in 10 minutes had more to do with off the court stuff than what happened on the court. In the past 2 games, he’s stepped up and played hard. He wasn’t doing that before and it was obvious. If CDR was given another 10-12 minutes he would have finished the game with 19 points.

And I agree with JB: How can Lee dodge criticism when Allen dropped 26 on his head? I thought he was some ungodly defender.

People overrate Lee to no end. His defense is not that great.

TREADE LOPEZ!!!!
one thing he can do is shouting at the partners not the opponents.

Want Positive? TWILL. I did not look at his statistics, so all I have to go on is watching his performance. Unselfish, confident, aggressive, effective, smart(for the most part). Keep it up TWILL!

I find it funny that people who bash Yi this much like Ryan Anderson, whose game has the same flaws. Some people complain about Yi being soft. Newsflash: Anderson is too! Some people want a more"physical" PF than Yi, well Ryan’s a perimeter oriented forward.

Yi is hands down the more talented player. Anderson is shooting .420 from the floor on a team he should be taking advantages of how Orlando’s stars (namely Howard) spread the floor. He’s just not as good. Last year he shot under .400 on the Nets.

Yi may be inconsistent, but Anderson is too. Ryan’s ceiling is not even close to Yi’s. He hasn’t played at the level Yi played during that 8 game strectch after returning from his injury. And Anderson’s job on offense should be much easier on a team like that.

Basketball is all I care about, not twitter. Both CDR and TWill are more talented bball players than Lee, Kiki should start giving them more PT. Lee has done nothing to be given the starting role and 30-35 minutes a night.

As for the game, I think Harris played well until the final minutes, when he started chucking bad shots.

People say Yi has a low bball IQ, which may be true, but how about Hump’s? This guy never passes the ball and takes questionable shots, and that hurts the team. He hasn’t been all that great as of late. I still like him as a hard-nosed banger coming off the bench tho.

Good minutes from CDR. This kid is a baller, period. He should be getting more PT.

I think NETS is YI or atleast Yi’s agent!

Regardless, good game. We are getting closer to wins now. If we continue to get better by playing team ball and defense, we will get some wins. Our goal is still 10 wins. WE can do it!

brook was angry at hump because lopez is trying to maintain his 9rpg but hump and yi keep getting the boards…

@ Andres

Shooting percentages mean nothing. Mikki Moore led the league. Enuf said. (But, I do love Mikki).

Humphries sucks!

Significantly, this team needs a leader and a serious coach desperately. I didn’t watch the game, but according to what you were talking about… I think we need the things above in order to avoid the thing that Lopez did last night.

shooting tages do mean something…mikki moore led the league in fg…that means mikki takes good shots…he shoots 55% for his career. if you need a shooter to spread the defense who do you take? someone who shoots a high %tage on 3s…