Hawks Crush Nets for the Third Time
by NetsDaily on Mar 16, 2010 9:52 PM EDT
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The Nets picked up loss No. 60 Tuesday at the Izod Center, falling to the Hawks by 20-plus points for the third time this season. This one was interesting for most of the first half, but a 19-5 Hawks run to end the second quarter turned a two-point lead into a 16-point cushion, and the Nets never threatened in the second half. Jamal Crawford caught fire and finished with 25 points on 11-18 shooting. On the other end, the Nets shot just 39 percent as a team. Brook Lopez led them with 21 points, Josh Boone grabbed a career-high 20 rebounds, and Terrence Williams finished with 15 points, six rebounds and four assists. Atlanta completed the season sweep, winning the three games by an average of 25.7 points.
Meanwhile, the Nets are starting to admit just how important avoiding that NBA futility mark. "I want to get three wins more than anything," Courtney Lee said. "We don’t talk about it, but I think it’s on everybody’s mind. You can see there’s a sense of urgency about it, because it comes up a lot. And it’s going to come up a lot more if we don’t get some wins soon."
"It's on our minds," said Keyon Dooling. "It's gotten so bad, one of our goals is to not be the worst team in the history of the game. That's hard to associate with 'goal,' but we don't want to go down in history as the worst team ever."
- Boxscore - NBA.com
- Game Highlights (Video) - NBA.com
- Crawford's big 2nd quarter leads Hawks over Nets - Tom Canavan - AP
- 'Get to 10' victories remains Nets' rallying cry as they lose again - Dave D'Alessandro - Star-Ledger
- Seven wins, 60 Defeats, 1 Wakeup Call - Dave D'Alessandro - Star-Ledger
- Hawks push Nets closer to record with easy win - Bob Considine - NBA.com
- Post-Game Plus (Video) - Jessica Taff - YES Network
- Kiki Vandeweghe Press Conference (Video) - YES Network
- Josh Boone Interview (Video) - YES Network
- Brook Lopez Interview (Video) - YES Network
- Nets Make NCAA Picks (Video) - YES Network
- 60 and counting for Nets - Al Iannazzone - The Nets Insider
- The biggest losers - Julian Garcia - New York Daily News
- Nets stay on 'worst' track - Fred Kerber - New York Post
- Nets Lose Again and Fall to 7-60 - Howard Beck - New York Times
- Boone's 20 Boards Not Enough Against Hawks - Ben Couch - New Jersey Nets
- Crawford carries Hawks past Nets - Gregory Hrinya - The Examiner
- ATL-NJN Game Review: Punching Bags - Human Highlight Blog - Peachtree Hoops
- 5 reasons Nets may not deserve to be the worst team in NBA history - Star-Ledger
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7-75. Never thought it could happen, but it will.
This team’s such a joke: hopefully they get no one in the summer and the NBA has to take over.
? What?
why would you hope for this? We have a new rich owner, that actually cares about winning. Something we haven’t had in nearly a decade.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
I never said I hoped for this. Of couse as a nets fan I’m ging to root for my team but I’m also a realist we don’t match up with them.
yeah my reply wasn't to you.
it was to the guy who said “hopefully”
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
What?
No comments about rebounds falling in Boone’s lap?
Great game by Boone…this is what the Nets’ brass has been wanting from him ever since…play good D, swalow up those rebounds…
TWill
Good game by T-Will but like I said before he shouldn’t take more than 10 shots until he works a summer with a shooting coach…
Agree with you. TWill should stop making j’s and teardrop shot. Work on that area during the offseason what he should do is attack the basket with authority, use the board and get the other teams players in foul trouble.
by jasperjarrod on Mar 17, 2010 5:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Sigh
I didn’t watch it…. I had it DVR’ed but chose to just check the box score instead.
4 Rebounds for Brook. Whats he averaging 4 on the month now? So much for that Tim Duncan comparison.
Talent gap pretty clear tonight
I can’t get mad about this loss. But some of the rotations were pretty lousy from Koach Kiki the Komatose Klown. You can’t possibly keep up with a team like Atlanta giving that many minutes to Hassell and Humphries while you also have Boone on the floor since he definitely deserved to say out there tonight.
new member
I’d just like to say that a) I’m glad SBN finally has a Nets Blog and b) I’m glad the Nets decided to implode at the time in my life when money is scarce, so I’m not tempted to buy tickets (this applies to the Mets too).
Hopefully things change with a new owner who actually cares about winning. It’d be nice to see a winning club at Atlantic and Flatbush.
"It’s just everytime we think the bar can’t get lower, they lower it. Now next year we’ll just be happy to hear that rogue shirtless officials aren’t implementing useless detrimental drills in spring training for no apparent reason."
-Gina, 3/1/10
by Greenpoint Ian on Mar 16, 2010 11:03 PM EDT reply actions
I'm rooting for Prokhy to buy the Mets next.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Did Lopes complained about Lee's performance recently?
Lee played very well in the last few games and today, he only get 5. Lopes might complain that Lee took too many shoots so that his performance was bad. Today, he got 21 although Nets lost again.
Haven't seen a game since half of saturdays
Soo I guess it hasn’t been all bad with me loosing power, less stress from watching Nets games smh. We are all going to go to basketball heaven my friends believe you me!!!
SOME TRUTHINESS:
Josh Boone’s best game…maybe ever (Where’s Josh Boone Fan?)
TWILL – it ain’t perfect, but he’s one of the only silver linings in this disaster
Courtney Lee – I’ll say it again. This guy is NOTHING more than a backup 2. He should learn how to play the game like Eddie House, because that is his ceiling.
He too often is clueless, bad D, non-rebounding, waste of space, that is too inconsistent to warrant real minutes.
It seem whenever Lopez has a bad game is always his teammate fault. I wish Lopez would start guarding the middle like a true big man, his defense is pathelic. Really can he acutally stop anyone 1 on1? And stop acting like a Superstar.
Our offense was completely out of sync without Devin. They were doubling Brook hard and he wasn’t establishing deep position in the post – even though he scored 21 points, they were mostly on outside jumpers, ATL would take that all day.
I thought TWilliams forced up a couple shots but we definitely needed his energy today.
I wish this game was more competitive but Atlanta is just too talented for us.
Great game by JB
Time to give the kid some credit. He’s played well when he’s had a chance this year. He’s an absolute pro, and a good team player to have around. I hope we keep him.
Glad to see CD-R back in the rotation. The starting Hassell joke needs to stop. Start TWill and bring CDR off the bench.
If Josh could work on his free throws, they why not take him back in late July around Vets Min.
That is if Nets don’t already have someone else in mind. Josh would be a nice #12-#14 on the bench, as needed.
This good performance could get other teams interested, unless Nets acted quickly after the main free agents were taken.
That was a very disheartening
article in which it pointed out that there are no more video sessions. We used to have video sessions in college, and even in HS to see what we were doing wrong, how our rotations failed. It really bothers and irks me that management (Kiki) is not taking this team seriously and letting them just coast through, instead of developing. I feel bad for our players, they have the talent, just no direction, and that truly is hurtful. Devin was right to blow up on Kiki that one time when he first took over. Shame you Nets Org.
You have to have money and scouting for video sessions
it’s very likely the nets just don’t have the resources for them.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
TWill and The Message
Nice article by Dave D. on TWill’s flagrant foul. I was at the game and it made staying to the bitter end worth it. I’m not advocating dirty basketball, but at the time of the foul, the Hawks were not demonstrating good sportsmanship. Up by more than 20 points on the road and then full court press in garbage time to create one show-off dunk after another? What did they expect?
The sad part is that the Hawks seemed truly surprised when TWill clocked Mo Evans. Is that how soft we are? Standing O from the few, the proud, the few Nets fans left. Jason Collins of all people walked over to TWill and mouthed off while pointing his finger at him. Please. TWill handled it very well by not reacting, and then went out of his way to talk to Evans after things settled down. I hadn’t been too much of a TWill fan, but yesterday he really showed me something. I hope his teammates got the message—we may not be a very good team right now, but I care and so should you.
@ jabez; Nice insight, nice post...
Yeah, this team has a lot of needs and toughness is high on that list.
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