Scola and Rockets Send Nets Home With Another Loss
by NetsDaily on Mar 13, 2010 10:56 PM EST
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The Nets still have time to avoid finishing with the worst record in NBA history, but they will end the season without a road win against the Western Conference. The 0-15 mark came to fruition amongst a barrage of short Luis Scola jumpers in Houston on Saturday night. The game was close through the first three quarters, but the Rockets pulled away with a 7-0 run in the fourth after Devin Harris missed an opportunity to tie it. Scola led all scorers with a career-high 44 points on 20-25 shooting. The Nets shot 54 percent from the field and 9-15 from 3-point range, but made just 17 of their 26 free throw attempts and were outrebounded by the Rockets 43-31. Courtney Lee led the Nets with 24 points on 10-14 shooting. Brook Lopez added 22 points and 10 rebounds, but turned the ball over seven times. Devin Harris (19 points and seven assists), Jarvis Hayes (16 points, 4-5 from 3-point range) and Terrence Williams (14 points and four assists) also had strong offensive games.
- Boxscore - NBA.com
- Game Highlights (Video) - NBA.com
- Scola carries Rockets past Nets - Chris Duncan - AP
- Scola scores 44 as Rockets win second straight - Jonathan Feigen - Houston Chronicle
- Scola shines as NBA's Rockets rip woeful Nets - AFP
- Luis Scola Interview (Video) - NBA.com
- Rockets, Scola dump Nets, 116-108 - Al Iannazzone - The Record
- Rockets Show Nets What Hard Work Is - Al Iannazzone - The Nets Insider
- Kiki Vandeweghe Interview (Video) - YES Network
- Brook Lopez Interview (Video) - YES Network
- From the Booth (Video) - Marv Albert & Mike Fratello - YES Network
- Nets can't hold off Rockets as Scola scores 44 points - Julian Garcia - New York Daily News
- For Hill, grass is greener at Houston - Julian Garcia - New York Daily News
- Postgame report: Rockets 116, Nets 108 - Jonathan Feigen - Houston Chronicle
- Scola with a "Dream" of a game - Jonathan Feigen - Houston Chronicle
- Rockets Defeat Nets116-108, and Luis Scola shows off - Only_A_Lad - The Dream Shake
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Lopez need to play D
Can someone please tell Lopez besides scoring he needs to guard the middle and clog the lane. How many guys are going to score inside right on his face. I would blame Yi for all this, but I can’t. I can’t find a excuse to blame this on Yi.
I would honestly fire Rogers for not teaching Lopez on any kind of defense. How many guys are going to drive right in and score.
can't tolerate it
Can somebody teach those kids how to play D?
D-Leaguers are better than Trenton Hassell and Josh Boone.
Net Income doesn’t think much of D-League, but the Nets can easily improve both of their forwards.
Trenton Hassell and Josh Boone aren’t very good.
If the Nets had picked up Reggie Williams instead of Golden State, the Nets would have found a player miles better than Hassell. Alexander Johnson and Josh Boone had similar rookie seasons, but Johnson is clearly a better offensive player and probably also a better rebounder.
Mike Harris had a cup of coffee with the Washington Wizards, but if the Nets call him up now, he’d also be beter than Hassell.
The facts is, the Nets didn’t even call these players in for a tryout. Have Harris go against Hassell and see for yourself.
I understand a franchise being cheap, but if the worst franchise in the NBA can’t afford a single D-League call-up or even try-out, it should not be in business this season.
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Reggie Williams vs. Trenton Hassell
I’ve said a million times that AlexanderJohnson deserves a 10-day contract. He couldn’t have been any worse against Luis Sola.
Reggie Williams is a two-time NCAA scoring leader and did very well in D-League. Calling him up was a no-brainer. Here’s Williams vs. Hassell, by the numbers.
WILLIAMS—age 23, 6’6"
HASSELL—age 31, 6’5"
WiLLIAMS—23.5 minutes, 12.8 points, .526 field, .400 three, .818 line, 3 rebounds, 2.5 assists
HASSELL—21.9 minutes, 4.7 points, .422 field, .000 three, .754 line, 3 rebounds, 1 assist
Hassell hasn’t made a three all year, while Williams is shooting .400 from there. That makes a huge difference to your entire offense.
Williams brings about three times the scoring and over twice the assists, and is eight years younger. There’s always a place for solid, low-priced guys like Reggie Williams and Alexander Johnson.
IMHO, don’t count on three solid draft picks playing next year. Thabeet was last year’s #2 pick and was sent down. The 2010 draft looks extremely weak beyond Wall, Turner, and Cousins. The Dallas #1 and the pick at the top of the second round probably won’t get you anyone near as ready to play as Williams and Johnson.
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Really?
How can you compare dleague stats vs NBA stats? Do people here really think DLeague scrubs are the answer? Give me a break.
It's Reggie Williams NBA stats vs. Trenton Hassell NBA stats.
Yes, really.
Reggie Williams is a better player than Trenton Hassell. With more experience than a mere ten days, Williams might get even better.
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Its still just stats
Sure Hassell is just an old bum now, but he’s got way more experience winning games than Reggie. Anyhow Reggie’s stats are only for what, 2 or 3 games? The sample just isn’t big enough to take into serious consideration. I’m sure the Warriors offense adds 4 extra points per game to everyone’s stats too…
"Hip-Thrust!"
But who cares about wins, I mean avoiding the record is nice but at this point
what’s the difference between 7 and 9 wins, certainly not worth more than finding talent. Hassel is an old bum with no future with our, or probably any other, NBA team. Developing players and possibly finding future players who may fill holes is way more important than a veteran with “winning experience”. Especially one who’s crappy and hasn’t exactly had a winning influence on the team so far.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
True
i was just trying to point out that signing d-leaguers is far from a “no brainer” decision. a team like golden state is (for obvious reasons) is more suited for a d-leaguer to thrive in. for every success story like kelena azubuike, theres probably 10 others who didn’t make it.
"Hip-Thrust!"
Where are 3 more wins coming from?
I meant to suggest a few games…
3-17: at Philly?
3-26: vs. Detroit?
4-4: at Washington?
4-7: vs. Milwaukee?
4-9: vs. Chicago?
4-12: vs. Charlotte? (Again?)
Not saying those would all be wins, but maybe 3?
Only Philly
impossible especially for Milwaukee, Bogut outplays Lopez everytime.
The 0-15 mark came to fruition amongst a barrage of short Luis Scola jumpers in Houston on Saturday night.
every 3 & 4 player that receives a raise next year should send a portion of it to the nets. Since all of their stats are probably skewed by career nights against us.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
So I looked it up for fun
82 games keeps stats on how much production teams are getting at each position minus how much they’re giving up to opposing players of that position and ranks each team. We’re the 26th worst at the small forward position, and 29th worst at the power forward position.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
That should be 26th best and 29th best
So 7th and 3rd worse respectively.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Our remaining wins are @ Philadelphia, vs Detroit, @ Washington and vs Charlotte. Maybe @ Milwaukee or @ Chicago.
by diehardNFFLbarnone on Mar 13, 2010 11:33 PM EST reply actions
I'd count out Washington
blatche will go for 50.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
I don't think
we’ll get 3 more. 2 is possible. But really does it matter? This is one of the worst teams in NBA history whether they win 9 or 10. Let’s have the biggest turn around ever. That’s the record we want!
I don't even think the team itself is that bad
I think it speaks more about the organization as a hole. Coaching obviously has hurt but also the lack of scouts and general basketball personnel left in the front office after Ratner’s clean sweep to cut costs.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
This is coaching
You can not let a player like Scola go 20-25. Even if you dont have the players (who thought we needed Yi back to shore up our forwards defense) or the team defensive awareness (we seem to have no scheme that our players even remotely understand/follow), the least you can do is send someone in to put Scola into the third row. Get something for Simmons’ $11 million.
0-4 without Yi
So 0-4 without Yi now…
Scola goes for 44 against our bigs…
I guess the “Yi is the single biggest reason for the Nets losing” is now officially in the crapper!!! (not that theory had any legs to begin with)
Like I said, if anything Yi does the impact the Nets as much as other people would like to think…Yi does not help the Nets that much as to make us win and he does not suck as much as to lose games for the Nets…the Nets just suck!
I'm indifferent to Yi
but I imagine a big problem is that Boone shouldn’t be playing power forward either, he’s a solid back up defensive center but has no business playing power forward. This team desperately needs sf/pf players.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
uh..a solid backup doing what?? He doesn’t take any charge, he isn’t a defensive shot blocker or clog the lane. He certainly isn’t a scorer or a rebounder. I really think the only positive about Boone is he knows his role which is try not to hurt team from losing. I have nothing against Boone he really doesnot belong in the NBA.
Sure he does
He is a good rebounder. Boone playing within his role is something I like. A guy like Humphries hurts the team because he thinks he is KG and takes lots of stupid shots.
Kiki is the main reason
He should have played Hump for 35 minutes, not 14 minutes.
Nets have been playing much better without Yi. No Doubt.
They could have won all the games.
CDR should be playing more. Kiki just says the flow of game was going good without him.
Nets can’t play good for 48 minutes without more time from CDR and Hump down the stretch.
Hassell shouldn’t be playing, especially against bigger players.
TWill should have been given this PT long ago, so that he would be further along. TWill is a stud.
Nets should have brought up top D-League PF. Kiki is afraid he might look better than Yi.
In fact, If I didn’t know better, I would accuse Kiki of stinking up the PF position so that Yi would look better.
Kiki seemed sad the day that they beat the Knicks, because his project, Yi, was injured.
Kiki should have been fired long ago for his stubborness.
lol
“Nets have been playing much better without Yi. No Doubt”
No Doubt = I can no longer think of rational excuses to blame it on Yi.. but JUST CUZ
The thing I’m concerned about is Brook’s performance alongside Boone. As many ppl have already pointed out, Boone hasn’t done jack squat to earn a reputation as a rebounder/defender. His defense and rebounding may be marginally better than Yi, but his offense consists of a few wide open dunks when the defense forgets about him.
I thought Humps would have stepped in and put up Yi like numbers, but so far it hasn’t happened either. Maybe Humps should start next to Lopez.
"Hip-Thrust!"
Yi is still the biggest reason on the court we lose.
Our backup PF is second
Our backup center is third
Our starting SF is fourth.
We need 3 bigs at least and thats not including if you wanted to go big at SF like LeBron or Pierce (athletic and strong or tall). If we draft Turner or Wall we have no shot, I repeat NO SHOT, at competeing next year even if we sign 1 big FA (like D.Lee). If we only sign 1 big (say a PF) as soon as we go to the bench or if one gets injured we’re doomed. Lopez should be stepping up and he is going backwards. Talk about development!
The biggest reason
Our guards couldn’t shoot and play defense. Now our guards are shooting better. Yi isn’t on the court and we still lose.
By Logic, Yi can’t be the biggest reason we lose. Yi has been in games that we won. But reasoning don’t belong here.
HOLLAH SON! FIRE PORKY!… screaming like this belong here.
When we played the Rockets in December and Yi was in the game...
…Scola only put up 17. With Yi out of the game, Scola gets a career high.
Landry was also playing power forward for them then
And he went for 26, so they’re power forwards combined for 41 against us.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Yes...still better than the 49 that Scola and Hill (a rookie) put in yesterday
…and Yi’s 17pts in that game was better than Boone and Hump’s combined 8….
yea i don't know why people are so hellbent on finding correlation
between Yi’s defensive suckyness and opponents scoring big. I mean sure Blatche lit him up good, but he also owned KG just a week ago. Yi’s a low percentage shooting big man who has slow feet. But he’s still way ahead of a stiff like Boone.
"Hip-Thrust!"
Kiki needs to be fired once and for all
3rd straight DNPCD for CDR. This is a shame. This clown puts his personal vendetta first and is screwing the kid’s development.
Kiki knows he can't be fired before end of season.
Thorn doesn’t want to take that responsibility. He’ll wait for Proky to not re-sign him.
Its about time that Proky agrees to get NBA approval. Nothing can go wrong with Barclays now.
NBA is going to approve Jordan later next week. If Proky were to be approved at same time, he could start interviewing coaches.
If Nets were to win 3 games, Proky would be a Savior.
Agreed
I called it at halftime that Kiki’s players run into a wall in the second half, every time.
Kiki says “they were playing with the flow” so he doesn’t make any moves.
He needed to use CDR during the first half and especially in 2nd half, just to have a fresh body with a desire to compete.
Kiki’s vendetta goes beyond CDR. He hasn’t figured out that Hump is his 2nd best Big, who needs to play 35 minutes a game when he isn’t in foul trouble. Kiki can’t accept that Hump was instrumental in all the Nets wins and close games.
If Kiki doesn’t have enough bodies to guard Scola, he should have brought in Battie, besides Hump.
Better still, he should have brought up the best remaining DLeaguer on a 10 day contract. There was no excuse for not doing that.
Fortunately, his vendetta with TWill is over. It should have been over long ago, but Hassell shouldn’t be getting PT unless Hayes is playing bad and TWill is in foul trouble.
It would be hard for anyone to believe it, but it seems that Kiki wants the PF position to suck so that Yi looks like a relief when (if) if he returns from injury.
With all the incompetence Nets still had chance to win all of these games.
I hope Avery Johnson is watching some of these games.
He would know what to do.
Oh god no...
Ugh hell no to AverME Johnson.
He's just what the players need and I think they know it.
Avery has mellowed since 2 years ago. He is about US now.
Don’t the fans want someone who would get on the players and preach Defense, as well as someone who could actually draw up plays and be a Coach.
If Devin Harris has no problem with Avery, then other players shouldn’t.
Harris said: “I love Avery, always have; If we reunite, that would be great.”
Avery could be ready the day after Proky is approved and a contract could be formalized.
He wouldn’t be as difficult as say JVG, who would want something longer term.
Avery could be fired if it didn’t work out.
If Nets don’t contact him soon, New Orleans will make an offer.
Nets wouldn’t have to wait until Draft and hope Nets get Wall, before Avery would sign.
Between Kiki and Avery, it would be a landslide for Johnson.
how can you be so biased.
So why Lopes is frustrating now? Is it because Kiki wants all big fellows bad so that YI will look good.
Whats up with Battie?
Battie is an experienced big man. Lopez has had foul trouble limitibng minutes. Yi is out. Battie is dressed on the bench. What’s his function, setting the official chewing gum out there?
NetsDaily: Is Firefox going to be fixed?
It wasn’t working properly for NetsDaily just as game time thread began.
SB Nation is working with Firefox. Only NetsDaily isn’t.
I tested out Google Chrome and still like Firefox better than Google and IE.
Could be reason why less participation, although bad play is another reason.
Nets Fans have just about had it with Kiki.
I'm having the same problem in Firefox
Sent an e-mail to SB Nation support.
Hoping it gets fixed soon.
NetsDaily.com
Still not working for me
Unless it requires a full reboot.
Rest of SB Nation works fine.
Really it's not just nets daily for me
it’s all the sbn blogs. And it seems to be just with the most recently released firefox, the one made available in like the last week.
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44 points for Scola?
44 points for Scola?
44 points for Scola??
44 points for Scola?!?
?!?!
I missed the first half since I was out to dinner, I turned on YES at halftime, fell asleep and woke up to Center Stage, so yeah, I would like to see how Scola got 44.
by ispartan on Mar 14, 2010 9:58 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I didn't watch as closely as I would have liked but
Kiki gave Boone (who he wouldn’t play before) 30 of Yi’s minutes and mostly used Hump to back up Lopez (Hump was only given 14 minutes PT). Lopez lost his concentration a couple of times early again (regular habit) and committed stupid fouls and he had to play cautiously without enough support most of the way.
I think Nets went small ball for 14 minutes with only 1 big!
CDR didn’t play, even though Kiki could have used a boost in 2nd half, as usual.
Scola got lots of second and third chance baskets inside on loose balls, etc. besides shooting well midrange. If Nets had Cousins, Houston would have lost bad.
Nets still could have won with better shooting and a few stops near the end despite all the incompetence and bad decisions from Kiki.
TWill looked great at times, with some Jordan-like hanging finishes at the basket.
However Kiki waited too long to get TWill PT.
Basically, had Kiki used a bigger lineup of BLopez, Hump and TWill for about 35 min each, Lopez wouldn’t have gotten into foul trouble and Scola wouldn’t have scored more than 20 pts. Boone, Hayes and CDR could have filled in as needed.
Lee and Harris were good enough to win.
Kiki blew it again!!!
Another winnable game.
Fire Kiki
I doubt Cousins would have stopped Scola
but you’re right I’m not even a Cousins fan but at least if he gave up 40 on one end he’d probably get 15-20 himself. The problem with our forwards now is not only do they give up huge amounts on one end they don’t do anything to counteract it on the offensive end. It would be hard for anyone to come in and be a worse pfs than the ones we have.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
If Nets have about the worst team, they certainly have the worst forwards in NBA history,
At least how Kiki has been using them.
Not a team
Are we so bad that we wish Yi were back to shore up our d? Are we crazy? He is only going to make our d worse? We are the 3rd worst team at the PF position. Now, what team is worse than us? I don’t believe it. 6th worst at the SF. I believe that. Houston, OKC, Mavs, etc. these are quality teams. I do not expect us to win. But I was impressed by each of those teams and how much they play like teams, while we just have these random individual plays. Last night Scola has the ball mid post, and two players one after the other, dive to the basket, the third leaks out to the perimeter. Honestly, Scola had three good options. He waited for the last, open shot. bucket. Wow. I did not see one play like that on our side all night. Not one. This is not a team. It is a bunch of individuals waiting for Harris to break people down, for Lopez to back in, or for Dooling to launch a three.
Damn couldn’t watch this game due to blAck out… Not surprised scola schooled us…no front court defense and plus scola has the skills.
by Andy. on Mar 14, 2010 11:12 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
We need Yi
He is obviously the best PF we have. Defensively and Rounding. You all can make up cool stories about Kiki and aliens from space 9/11 conspiracies.
Nets haven’t won a single game w/o Yi for over a year.
Thats just what Kiki wants people to say. Why else would he suddenly play Boone over Hump?
It was perfect time to bring up a DLeaguer. He didn’t.
Maybe...
it’s because when Hump gets the ball and doesn’t have someone to pass to and the lane isn’t clear he has no idea of what to do next and just shoves the ball to the basket…it’s so obvious…he is an energy player but when it comes to set plays he has no idea how to adjust if the play doesn’t go as planned…Boone is smarter but then the guy can’t force his will on any opponent…
by jirohkanzaki on Mar 14, 2010 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Jobs.
The way you make it sound, Kiki has full control of everything. He is GM and coach and the mastermind behind the Nets losing hired by secret Chinese shadow corporation.
Or maybe Nets didn’t have an owner and is losing money and desperately need to rebuild. Now thinking about it, it’s true, Kiki and Yi is in the same boat. Both of them gets all the blame, yet non of the credit when something good happens.
Twill gets credit for becoming a better rookie, Kiki gets the blame for him being terrible at the start of the season. Yi gets blamed for Brook’s poor stats, No credit when Brook gets good stats. Brook is playing bad w/o Yi.
Well, you know...
when a child gets in trouble or something doesn’t go well the first thing they do is find someone to blame…
by jirohkanzaki on Mar 14, 2010 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I believe there were 4 wins since Hump came.
Hump, not Yi had the key playing time in all 4 of those wins.
In 2 of the early wins, I believe Yi wasn’t even in lineup.
Nuff said
Kiki needs to learn.
In those 4 wins, Hump had a nice game against the Clippers...
…but he had fewer minutes than Yi in two of those games…and barely had 15 minutes in the win over the Knicks.
Those wins also seemed to coincide with big games by Lee and Harris…
Brook Lopez, though he had numbers, had some terrible stretches in the game last night. Most of which has to do with fouls, but there was some other stretches combined with that where he committed stupid fouls, careless turnovers, it was really one of the few games where B-Lo had me scratching my head.
B-Lo - we knew he'd hit this wall
Lopez isn’t that great at handling double teams. A double team on a smart big like lopez should be an opportunity like a fast break on a mismatch – something to capitalize on. Brook turns it over or forces a shot too much. This needs work. When nobody on the other team can stop him, nets should get him ball in low post every time. Instead , he’s drifting all over the court. He can also improve on avoiding and managing fouls and on help defense. Maybe he could pass a little better on the give and go. Still a lot of upside, when you consider he’s one of he few best big men already.
I think Jerry25 believe every player is better than Yi
He will dominate Yi on the court by himself .
Games without Yi
Let’s face it, we are just one lousy team that can’t play well for 48 minutes. Despite all the blame on Yi, we still lost without him. And Hump didn’t play any better.
Not only...
did we lost without Yi, Scola scorched our bigs to the tune of 44 points…for all the blame on Yi being lost defensively…looks like they’re all the same…they all suck!
by jirohkanzaki on Mar 15, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
If all the Yi is the worst defensive player...
talk is all true Scola would have scored 82 on us!!! A lot of people here would believe Scola would score 82 on Yi than admit Yi is no worse than Lopez, Boone or Hump which is rather obvious…Scola was like practicing free throws out there…
Boone and Lopez
aren’t power forwards, and did Hump play much?
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Last time we played Houston, Scola only put up 17. Landry did put up 26...
…but still not as much as the 49 that Scola and Hill (a rookie) put up against Boone and Hump…
Hump
If someone will say Hump plays better defense than Yi then all basketball fans (except Yi haters) will collectively say LOL!!!
Boone plays better defense than Yi and Hump but i guess not by that much as Scola was laughing all the way to 44 points…
Boone plays better defensive against centers
but more athletic power forwards run circles around him too.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
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