Game 34 - Nets @ Knicks - Monday, Febuary 20, 7:30

pack the inside let lin smith and melo chuck = victory!!!! lol i wish

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I actually had a dream the Nets won this game. Only bad thing was Farmar was playing and D’ing up Lin. Dream only lasted about 5 secs but we won the game.

I am seriously getting mentally disturbed by the Lin media hype. Its disgusting and takes my hatred of the Knicks to a level I never thought possible.

Nets lets get this win!!!! Your future in the tri-state area depends on it! They are trying to take your manhood like a prisoner named Fleece Johnson. Nets are yall gonna let that happen or fight for your pride???!!!!!

This thread needs some diapers and pacifiers.

Now that the Knicks have proven they can be successful with Lin/Chandler/Amare, I think they could be tempted to trade Melo for Dwight straight up (or with minor fillers like late picks and Shumpert or Fields) even without a guarantee he’ll re-sign.

Melo does not fit D’Antoni’s system, now run by the great Lin, whom even JKidd has called Nash-like running that system.

For the Knicks, even in the worst case scenario Dwight doesn’t re-sign in the offseason, they get to clear Melo’s salary and can go for D’Antoni’s Marion-like SF like Gerald Wallace.

Melo is the kind of star Orlando’s ownership prefers to draw in the crowds and can promise to build a team around. They may not even insist on NY taking Hedo if they can get Melo.

Replace Melo with Dwight now and the Knicks become legit contenders. If they go deep in the playoffs, the bright lights at MSG could tempt him to stay.

Dwight may actually prefer to play with DWill but if the Knicks are willing to send Melo to Orlando for Dwight even without a re-sign guarantee, we’re moisoed.

Don’t let their 3 point shooters alone. Novak and JR would light it up. Lin also hit some momentum changing 3s. Melo would be back so we’ll have our hands full given that this is the 3rd game in three nights. Hump and Sheldon need to dominate boards and DWill and Brooks need to score.. I hope we are getting blown out though.

Why not play Brook for another 20+ minutes.

and we’re without a rusty Lopez, washed-out Okur, and Farmar. Also, Petro will probably play.

L.

The only question is how big of a loss. Either a blow-out or a 5-point almost-there loss doesn’t matter. Let’s just look forward to after the All-Star break and those games we get to play our real rivals, the Charlotte HorNets.

Dwill plays bad at home because of the background stuff he talked about

We help create Linsanity, its time for Deron to prove whose top dog.
I expect at least 25 pts and 10 assist from him tonight.

Don’t give any effort! Let the knicks destroy us. D’Antoni will bench lin when they are up by 20.

THAT is the only way to stop linsanity. The games against the Kings was very dull and quiet, the fan was so out of it cuz it was sooo boring.

and we all know how that goes for us….

Don’t put him on Lin at any point during the game.

Have been for 25 years.

And I’m rooting for Lin, so I guess the Knicks too.

Who isn’t? If you aren’t, then you are a hater. IMO.

It’s just the way it worked out. If Lin doesn’t come in, and the Nets beat the Knicks, D’Antoni is probably fired the next day.

Things looked that grim for the nets. Now guess what, they had a decent team, very good talent, just under performing.

The Nets, and fans like me, just keep hoping that players like Brooks and Lopez become stars. Praying, hoping, wishing. It’s tiresome.

Lin comes along and takes it.

The Nets are the only team that would be willing to wait until the off season and still give Orlando everything they’d want right now. Don’t forget that.

The are the current epitome of desperate. And were before the Linsanity.

Now Its Time To End It.

please, play good basketball tonight. we are a different team when we don’t do 2 things:

shoot 26% for a game (i’m exasperating)
commit 20 turnovers a game

we usually do one or the other but either is unbearable to watch, ie. losing to teams that we had a higher FG%, making 20 3 point shots in a game and still lose the game. Orlando hit 17 3 point shots and won the game, we had 3 more than they did.

I meant it looked grim for the Knicks, then Lin comes along.

I am in no means saying I cannot endure the Nets terrible brand as of late. I have just fine. And I have truly never rooted for the Knicks, but now I see myself rooting for them, for this kid to become a star.

He changes everything. It’s what we all hope for. That the best players aren’t necessarily the most physically obviously gifted, entitled.

I’ve always seen life that way, that the fastest runner, best player, smartest person, best at any given thing, is not the discovered but the undiscovered, and that best, brightest may never be discovered.

It’s fantastic to see someone discarded, thrown away, sticking with it, and proving everyone wrong.

In my opinion it IS being a hater to not root for Lin, even if you are the crosstown Nets.

Maybe it’s because I’m 36 years old. Give it some time and see if you change your mind some day.

Now like the above said, if the Knicks have any brain they trade Melo for Dwight straight up, right when the All Star weekend concludes.

It does 3 things, they get Howard, it forces our hand to trade Deron to Dallas (maybe 3 team deal) and makes the Knicks instant perpetual playoff lock for the next 10 years.

The Knicks have already proven that a Melo as THE star team is a losing record team the way their team is constructed.

Nets have already proven that a Deron Williams as THE star team, is also a losing team.

It is so obvious the Nets must do whatever the Magic want, even if they have to wait until the off season.