A Couple of Wins and You're Out of the Cellar
by Net Income on Mar 29, 2010 12:58 PM EDT
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PrintCellar-dwellers no more...at least in the eyes of most power ranking pundits! With a two game winning streak, the Nets have moved up to #28 in the NBA.com and NBC Sports polls and #29 in ESPN and CBS rankings. John Hollinger still has them down at #30 in spite of his suggestion last week that the Wolves are looking bad, maybe even worse than the Nets. In fact, the Wolves and Wizards have both lost 15 straight, the second time the Wolves have done that. Nope, the Nets haven't done that one. As Marc Stein writes, "We warned the Wolves what would happen if the Nets ever managed two wins in the same week."
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Not so secretly rooting for Wolves and Wizards to keep losing
I’d like to see one of them run their losing streaks up to 19+, so the NETS won’t have the longest losing streak of the season. I posted this other day, but I’ll mention it again – if the Wizards keep losing, the NETS will have the opportunity to hang loss #19 on them on April 4th in DC. That could give the NETS some extra motivation and it would be nice to see them shut Blatche down to make up for the career night we let him have in February at the Izod Center.
by GeoffreySchmits on Mar 29, 2010 1:12 PM EDT reply actions
Blatche is gonna torch em, I'm warning you now
The real "Masters of Panic" are commenting on this blog.
by ben_gleicher on Mar 29, 2010 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Only if Kiki decides to keep Yi on him defensively.
Proud to hold season tickets to the only NBA team soon to be owned by a Russian oligarch.
by yellow fever on Mar 29, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Which he will. Kiki repeats mistakes, again and again.
But then it was said that Kiki wants to keep Hump’s value low, so that he will have no choice but to accept his player option.
I’m not really sure about all the love that Hump gets either. He’s not great on defense, his jump shot is atrocious…I don’t know. It feels to me sometimes like he gets the same kind of love that David Eckstein or Darin Erstad get in baseball. They just look like they’re trying so hard, so they must be good…even when the results don’t bear that out.
Proud to hold season tickets to the only NBA team soon to be owned by a Russian oligarch.
by yellow fever on Mar 29, 2010 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Hump has contributed in every win since joining Nets.
He did much better offensively during his first month, just like CDR did.
People who knock Hump like to defend CDR, but they have Kiki in common.
Hump has much better rebounding numbers/min than Yi and certainly is a better defender by any measure and certainly is better offensively inside of 6 feet and Yi has disappointed most of year from deep, unless he has a weak defender.
Maybe Kiki is messing with Hump and CDR’s head by not running any plays for them or discouraging them, making them try to prove that Kiki is wrong. Thats what it looks like to me.
I wouldn’t make a final judgment on either Hump or CDR until there is a new coach.
Would you repeat the mistake a third time with playing Yi around Blatche or try something different? Even Boone or bring the Dinosaur – Battie in the game to pick up some fouls.
Kiki is not A-hole.
Kiki is trying to develop all this young talent. C.Lee,T-Will,CDR,Hump,Yi etc.
He does not strike me as a guy who has personal vendettas.
Sure he plays Yi a lot, but maybe he’s trying to increase Yi’s trade value.
The 30pts Yi scored the other night sure didn’t hurt.
There may be a team out there intrigued with Yi’s potential.
Keeping him on the bench won’t help his trade value.
Lets judge Kiki when all the chips have been cashed including our #1-4 draft pick. Lawrence Frank would have gotten us more wins and we would be picking tenth.
Your language, not mine about Kiki?
The idea of increasing Yi’s trade value would not be shared by many of his supporters.
The evidence that this isn’t the case is that he was put in for 38 minutes the 1st day back from injury.
There was no need to bring him back that fast if he was increasing his trade value.
Some executive (Thorn?) was apparently upset after that game.
Thorn is an idiot and coward...
Harsh words but what has he done? Put Kiki on a suicide mission. If he was so against Frank being fired, why did he let it happen? If he doesn’t like Yi, why didn’t he get rid of him? Thorn is the boss of the Nets. I lose more respect with Thorn as the days go by. Getting old usually gets ugly.
Thorn had no money to hire a coach. He was fortunate to get $200,000 to get Del Harris to come.
That plan made perfect sense as Kiki must have been complaining to Rod how he could do a better job with the players than Frank.
Thorn was Frank’s biggest supporter all along. That is well known. Kiki wanted him fired.
Finally Thorn did what was best for Frank and stopped it before breaking the record. Frank would have had an ulcer and failing health if he continued.
No Thorn isn’t a nice guy either. He wants to save his own hide with the uncertainty over the new owner. That is a separate matter from Kiki/Yi situation.
And we never heard what happened to the $100,000 that was saved when Del Harris quit. Someone didn’t even allow the best D-Leaguer to be brought up and tested.
Kiki should of been G.M., Del Harris the coach.
When Kiki and Del tried to make it happen, Del got fired and Kiki got vilified, by Thorn and his cohorts.
Thorn is the “bad guy” of this story, Kiki is just another victim of love.
Thorn does not care about basketball, Kiki is a basketball junkie..
And like all junkies, “Life is like a setting sun”…
Should we try to win that Minny game? LOL
Imagine if the winner of that game loses the best chance of getting the number one pick.
Plus finishes second and is not guaranteed the 4th best pick but picks 5th in worst case scenario.
If Favors stays in school as rumored, Wall, Turner, Cousins and Johnson could all be gone.
The waiting is killing me. LOL
I was starting to worry...
…about us winning too many games (15) and the Wolves beating us out for worst record. But after the Chicago drubbing, I am not worried anymore. Not happening. Joy!
:-)
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.
by John at the Jersey Shore on Mar 29, 2010 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I know it can't happen this year, but what if...
What if the Nets played T-Wolves last game of season and they were tied for worst record.
How should you play and coach that game?
Both teams would being trying to lose.
Crazy…
Small difference between worst and 2nd worst record in draft.
Just watch – Wolves will have worst record and take the best player for them – Evan Turner.
They will make it
I know that they will get at least another win before the season ends and dodge a bullet entirely on tying the worst record in NBA history.
I was right
I think that some owe me an apology and money for doubting that the Nets would either tie or break the record for the fewest wins in an 82 game season.
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