Thorn: It's All About the Money
by Net Income on Mar 5, 2010 5:04 AM EST
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The Nets will hold a 1 p.m. press conference in Newark Friday to promote their new marketing strategy--"It's All New!"--and their interim move to the Prudential Center. If the Nets had played in Newark this year, they'd be playing in the league's newest arena, with state of the art facilities, including locker rooms built to NBA standards. But are top tier free agents likely to make their decisions based on the arena accommodations or locker room amenities? Rod Thorn thinks not. It's much more likely they will echo the Rod Tidwell character from "Jerry Maguire". "For a lot of people, it will be, 'Show me the money,'" Thorn says. And with all that cap space and Mikhail Prokhorov's fortune, they should have plenty of that to go around.
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I think the move to 'The Rock' certainly enters the equation...
No, it may not have the lure of MSG or the Championship memories of the United Center, but Prudential Center is one of the best stadiums for professional basketball in the entire country, is it not? It’s replacing what is seen to be one of the very worst.
Before the move to ‘The Rock’ was finalised, players (upcoming free agents) were no doubt thinking “I’m not sure I can handle playing at the IZOD for at least two full seasons before the BK move”. Now, that hinderance/obstacle/deterrent/annoyance has been removed from the decision-making process. In that sense, ‘The Rock’ is a big positive.
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New Home, but same poor forwards play!
Both the home team and the visitors benefit equally from the better locker rooms, so that’s a wash. But maybe having a few more fans in the arena will motivate our guys to play a little better. It can’t hurt, and we will make a little more money too. This is a good thing, really. But things would get better if YI, Hayes and CDR played more consistently better. I look forward to next year, with some new players, and a new coach. GO NETS! Gentlemen, WELCOME TO THE ROCK!
Paul
Delray Beach, FL
by DelrayBeachPaulie on Mar 5, 2010 6:16 AM EST reply actions
"Both the home team and the visitors benefit equally from the better locker rooms, so that’s a wash"
The difference between home and visitor locker rooms isn’t the point. It’s the difference between IZOD and the Rock.
yes. show them the money!!
spare no expense!!!
"No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it."
by MrDollarBills on Mar 5, 2010 7:02 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
A step in the right direction
I’ve said before that the move to Newark isn’t the “magic bullet” to cure all the Nets ills,but it’s a start in the right direction. As it was reported by many who went to the preseason games the atmosphere was completely different, Everyone from the fans to players recognized it immediately.
He finally admit it "it's all about the money"
Thorn finally spit it out, which what I have been saying all along on this blog, they were not trying to improve the team when they tore the house down.
Well let me say also that after the Cavs game I have different thoughts about Bron Broom James, he has a nasty attitude and look on his face, I saw no reason for his fericious dunks, specially that there is no rively between the Nets and Cavs nor the slightest of competition at this point of time, I see this as a far turn of attitude from his last game here when he was a no factor till the 4th quarter and then took over and won the game, this guy has decided to stay in Clevland and now he struts and shows off, besides he doesn’t have the finness and flashiness that MJ, Magic and VC has, just like I. Eagle calls him the locomotive, which is the right description to his strong but rather ugly game like Larry Bird was very effective but had a very ugly game to watch, now Bron Broom will win championships no doupt it’s just a matter of time, but I am not sure I enjoy watching him play, as I watched those other guys.
everything Nets did with trades over recent years was Also, All About The Money.
Fact is though, all Nets need is Turner and DLee and they would be a good team, but Yi should be deep on the bench if he can’t be traded.
They have to decide whether to get another good FA this year or wait until 2011. Doubt anyone can answer that until July.
Eagle showed nothing but manlove for Lebron the entire broadcast. They spent 5 minutes in the 4th quarter talking about trading for his rubber wristbands.
Of course they were trying to improve the team.
Tearing the house down is just the first step in that process.
Nets losing getting big ratings
TNT spent 1/3 of their post game show mocking the Nets and whether they could make 10 wins.
Little do they know the details of how Kiki has screwed up by using the wrong players for the wrong minutes and of course not trying to trade Yi and his 4 million contract before deadline.
It should be obvious that TWill should have been used more earlier, so that he would have been playing like he is now long ago. Instead Kiki still plays Hassell, who according to Nets policy shouldn’t be playing.
Losing though is getting national attention and should be a topic of comedians for the next 6 weeks.
Oh please
Twill finally have 1 good game and you want to go time traveling with him and put him as starter. Management had to threaten to put him in the D league. Twill is better now, but it was work in progress.
No one really cares about the losing record, not in the front office definitely. It’s all about the money and the draft.
Rod Thorn is the best GM in basketball
Just one glance at this guys resume makes all of us nets fans fill re-assured again. Remember, when ratner had this guys fingers tied because of financial reasons, he still came this close to bringing carmelo anthony to the nets. with an unlimited amount of money and nothing but upside on one of the youngest teams in the league, im very confident the nets are going to be a good team next year and other years 2 come.
Um have you looked at his draft history?
That’s pretty awful
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
Kiki in the pants;
Kiki has been sounding confident that he will be with the Nets next year. Maybe he and Thorn have kissed and made up.
I still believe David Stern is running Nets ownership and management behind the scenes.
Thorn thought there was a chance
that both him and kiki were to be fired. He was in “everyone for themselves” mode and force kiki to be coach. Set him up to fail and saved money. Thorn is a ruthless guy. Their jobs seem to be safe for now, so Thorn is less back stabbing with Kiki, but still fired coach Harris. lol
From what I’m seeing the new owner doesn’t care about losing this season. It will make him look like a genius after he gains control and turn it around. Thorn and Kiki did a good job sacrificing this season for cap and draft picks.
Poor Del Harris...
I guess Del wasn’t as close to the Godfather, Rod Corleone, as he should of been. Rod couldn’t fire Kiki because Kiki is also good friends with Stern, so he fired Del.
“Dont forget the cannoli”.
Progress
Great move to the Prudential Center. With Brooklyn construction delays it looks like three years away not two.
F/A is not the answer with this team.
Build a solid coaching staff of young and get ready through the draft towards championships in Brooklyn.
Stop and think everybody, the Barclay Center is going to be the talk of the sports arena world once it is finished.
Special place for NBA championships in Brooklyn.
WOW!
NBA Champinships and Making Money.
Not a very bad combination.
GO BROOKLYN NETS!
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"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
It will be real funny if we get the #1 pick and Nets fans are still upset because Wall is taken or Turner is taken instead. LOL
No matter who they pick
some people will complain.
I’d be thrilled with either of those two guys
Wall is the pick though IMO
-Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
I'd much rather take Turner
how often do freshmen point guards who leave early work out? Derrick Rose has been decent but certainly not the game changer people claimed he would, and Mike Conley has been worse, if Wall turned out to be the same would that be good enough for the number 1 pick? I don’t think so.
"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'
it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.
@Mikee21 Draft 2010
You correct we do not take E.Turner over J.Wall.
D.Cousins is the choice here of team need.
Cousins/Lopez will be second coming of Duncan/Robinson.
In three years we will have the right chemistry with tis pair up front.
D.Cousins is C.Barkley with heart, talent and 6 more inches in height.
This kind do not come along every draft.
We need a player that can play next to Lopez.
Humphries becomes next year are solid second unit PF.
The hype is bigger than Wall’s game. Give me a team player like Evan Turner, please.
Givony says he’s not sure Wall will be a better pro than Turner, who he calls a can’t miss NBA star, pointing out kid’s uncredibly unselfsih, great teammate, and a very good defensive player…
Givony also hints that a team like NJ, that has Devin Harris could think about taking Turner with the 1st pick.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/podcasts/nba/listenlive.player.html?file=http://ht.cdn.turner.com/si/nba/audio/2010/03/04/nba-podcast-030410.mp3
Who's Givony??? Wall is the better player.
I feel the only reason why nobody really gets to see Wall’s game is as simple as this. Who does Ohio State have other then Turner? So of course Turner is going to dominate the game because they have nobody else who can dominate other then him. Kentucky has Wall, Cousins, Patterson all three of these guys can dominate so they don’t have to put Wall as the focus on offense. If Wall was the only true player they had you’ll see him dominating the ball on offense showing his true offensive skill but because they don’t really need him for that we can’t see his TRUE offensive game. That’s the big difference between Wall and Turner that does not make Turner a better player then Wall therefore Wall is our 1st choice before Turner and I’m sticking to it.
E.Turner
E.Turner is the complete player.
J.Wall is solid hower, college is college.
You need rebounding and D.Cousins is the choice for the Nets.
D.Harris will average 10 assists next year just with dumps to Lopez & Cousins.
Cousins is a finisher down low. Lopez wil get more Alley Loops.
Hence 10 assists a game average along with more victories.
We got lucky getting Lopez. Why stop now and grab the next big stud for the next tens years.
J.Wall is a sexy pick. Having the future Ducan/Robinson tandem means championships.
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