<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'> One Step Forward… January 17, 2008, 10:14 pm Things were looking pretty good 10 days ago, with the Nets having won seven of their last eight games. But now, they’ve returned to their ways and malaise of November and December. The six-game road trip that begins Saturday in Los Angeles could be just what they need to get back on track, or it could be the deathblow. The question, posed by Joe Auriemma of YES, is increasingly relevant: are they just a .500 team? If so, Jason Kidd seems to be OK with it. Nets Seek Their Groove Out West - Matt McQueeny - New Jersey Nets The truth: according to Richard Jefferson - Al Iannazzone - YES Network Who exactly are the Nets? - Joe Auriemma - YES Network Mediocrity is still a Net gain, says Kidd - David Waldstein - Star-Ledger</div> Et tu, deathblow?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Jason Kidd hopes for better, but sounded resigned to the fact that the Nets will be a .500 team this season. Strangely, the superstar point guard almost seemed accepting of it. "That's who we are," Kidd said after Thursday's practice. "We're the Nets. I can't sit here and explain to you and make something up. That's who we are. "There's nothing wrong with that, as long as we know who we are. It's not a bad thing." -- The Record Don't mistake this for a concession speech, or a shot at Nets resident Rod Thorn; Kidd was just conceding the facts. But the team captain is comforted by the knowledge that in the sad Eastern Conference, one red-hot streak -- the kind they seem to close with every year -- can change all that. -- New York Post</div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hunter @ Jan 18 2008, 12:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Jason Kidd hopes for better, but sounded resigned to the fact that the Nets will be a .500 team this season. Strangely, the superstar point guard almost seemed accepting of it. "That's who we are," Kidd said after Thursday's practice. "We're the Nets. I can't sit here and explain to you and make something up. That's who we are. "There's nothing wrong with that, as long as we know who we are. It's not a bad thing." -- The Record Don't mistake this for a concession speech, or a shot at Nets resident Rod Thorn; Kidd was just conceding the facts. But the team captain is comforted by the knowledge that in the sad Eastern Conference, one red-hot streak -- the kind they seem to close with every year -- can change all that. -- New York Post</div> </div> Your topic thread is a bit misleading. Kidd never actually said that. You are in inferring. I hope he means the team is what it is by its win/lose record. Otherwise i believe this may be a jab at the front office and/or coaching staff.
I'm resigned to it too. It's frustrating as hell as a fan, and you got to know for him and the team it's got to be worst. Those guys bust their asses and still can't get over it. Does it look to get better? Probably not.
