Will the Real Net Fans Please Stand Up

Great post! Everyone needs to be a little more realistic, while I would love the addition of Dwight Howard(who wouldnt?) the chances are not great. As of now, i’m just happy we got Deron!! The suggestions we shouldnt go after free agents this year because it would tie up cap space for D12 are ridiculous. If we can get david west this offseason, we shouldn’t hesitate. We cant bank our entire future on D12, if we get no one in free agency and strike out with D12 there is 0 chance Dwill will resign. and lets face it, the odds of us getting D12 are against us

I actually dont want to trade Brook, instead move him to the four. Sure he’ll get beaten by players who can shoot or are faster than him, but thats happening already!

Hey, we don’t need players from other teams, we don’t need to get better, what we need is to stick with our current guys even if that means forgoing a deal that would make us better. That way we’re good and loyal fans who love our team and our players

I love Brook and appreciate what he’s done for the Nets, but if someone out there gives the Nets a better chance of getting a championship, I would hope loyalty would not factor into their decision making.

A lot of Knicks fans didn’t want to trade for Melo. Because they thought that their team would be better of without him. But that’s stupid, because that team would have gotten them into the playoffs, but not much farther. Will this Melo trade do the trick? I don’t know, but it’s sure as heck better than their old team. They’re legitimately in the running for a championship.

In the same boat as that, no one that we can pick up this offseason will make us a championship contender. And with Brook’s extension, we will no longer have cap space of any kind. This team plain and simple will not win seriously contend for a championship. David West or anyone this offseason will not change that.

It was to stop talking about it and focus on other issues. Did you even read the second half of the article. You are jus proving my point. When we move to brooklyn jus change the name to the Brooklyn Dwight Howareds because thats all we are going to hear about until then….

You might remember LeBron and Carmelo getting excoriated for stabbing their respective teams in the back. You want to know why they didn’t care? Because, deep down, they know that teams don’t care about players, either. They probably witnessed 20 variations of the Perkins trade during their first few years in the league. Hey, it’s a business. Hey, that’s just sports. Hey, trades come with the territory. Isn’t loyalty a two-way street? When a team does what’s best for itself, we call it smart. When a player does the same, we call him selfish. We never think about what a double standard it is.

I thought Perk deserved better than getting blindsided in Denver, then having to limp around with a sprained knee and pack his stuff with tears rolling down his face. Maybe I’m a sap. But that was our guy. Family. On the phone, my dad decided — completely seriously — that he would rather have lost the 2011 title with Perkins than have tried to win it without him. Why?

“Because he was truly part of our team,” Dad said. “I don’t want to root for laundry. I watched that guy for eight years. That should mean something. Continuity should mean something.”

Within a few weeks, both of us will have talked ourselves into the Jeff Green era. That’s what fans do. We take the hits, shake them off, keep coming back. The Celtics will morph into something slightly different: a little more athletic, a little more flexible, a little younger and, hopefully, almost as tough. Perkins will fly to Oklahoma City, live out of a hotel room, make new friends and try to help Durant and Russell Westbrook make the Finals. Maybe the Celtics will see him there. It won’t feel weird at all, because that’s the way professional sports work. We are rooting for laundry. Whether we want to admit it or not.

I will write a post for each question that i asked in this post and i promise to all of the net fans that i wont mention DWight name in not one of them unless he is miraculously traded to us by then and becomes a net.

Is there something wrong with wanting to win a championship?