yeah, but harris shot 12-22 so he was hitting above 50%, can't blame harris here. His 4 fouls didn't help and Frank kept him out way too long. This was like when harris hurt his ankle, the nets play like crap.
You guys watch the Knicks at all? They score on everyone... I mean everyone. Even when Knicks lose they keep the game close. You have to be mentally tough and not let the Knicks run you out of the game. Nets were winning big 1Q and they got lazy and didn't want to compete. Frank is anal, he panic when Knicks started to warm up. Start tinkering with the line-ups and his own team couldn't score. Nets lose.
We do have a defender hassel, LF just didn't make the adjustment. The other thing is we got exposed with the lack of offence we need a reliable 3rd scorer. Vince has been solid so far but he just couldn't get it going tonight
The thing that was the most disheartening about this loss is the fact that the Nets were dominating on offense and the Knicks couldn't sink any 3s. Devin was on the bench for the 3rd quarter, and that was it. Some may not agree, but i think Frank is partly at fault for this loss. Knicks deserve credit though, coming back and staying ahead.
I can't blame frank. the Knicks are just a better team. The Nets fell in to same trap that teams did when Mike coached PHX. The knicks won and the Nets lost and the only thing they can do is learn and hope they can prepare for when the Raps come and hope it's not another loss
This doesn't begin to describe it, i hope the Nets brush it off and perform against Toronto. We don't need a losing streak
But the Knicks were isolating guys like Harrington or Chandler on a Nets defender (Yi in particular)and shredding the Nets with scores and free throws. That was the difference this game along with damn Tim Thomas coming in and hitting 3's. If the Nets had someone they could put on Harrington and make one on one scores more difficult it would have greatly limited the Knicks scoring output. Also, the Nets weren't able to take advantage of their front line size advantage. They tried to feed Brook but he kept turning it over. And Yi hasn't shown an ability to go inside that much.
That's right. We just couldn't stay with their frontcourt. They're too athletic for us. We had nobody who could stay with them -- just look at all those fouls. They can't handle our backcourt, but VC was off tonight from the start, and DH tired. Hope we can come up with something or somebody by next time. Damn. Why the nixs? Why can't it be some other team?
Again, I have to put the blame on Frank for this lost. The team was not prepared. Knicks played their typical style this year. Going small and concentrating on offense. Nets panicked, over fouled. I repeat. Harris scored huge in the first half on Duhon. Knicks shrugged it off, Duhon still ran the offense. Harris got tired with the second unit players, didn't know how to run his offense and started chucking. VC was a non-factor tonight.
I don't mean this as an insult, but Nets fans are really ignorant about how to play run and gun teams. Sure the defense was bad, but that's to be expected. the entire Knicks frontline are build for mismatches. David Lee and Wilson Chandler are faster than other teams C and PF, Al Harrington is too big and strong for other small forwards. Any team is going to have defensive problems against them, that's how run and gun works. But the worst thing you can do is get sucked into playing their game, which the Nets did. Using small players to match up against them are going to get blown out every game. The key to play against run and gun teams are to pound them inside, and make them pay for playing small. I followed Rockets for years, Yao can't guard any of the small guys, that doesn't mean he shouldn't be on the court, he makes them pay on the offensive end. The Nets really lost because we don't have a reliable post scorer, we tried to feed Lopez some but it was very successful. I knew it was a loss after frank took Lopez and Yi out in the 3rd and started to play Knicks game.
GET ready for a losing streak. this was the beginning of a bubble burst. cdr needs to play. FRank got outcoached severely in this game. Why did we try and match what the knicks were doing? we should have fed blo in the post and had him kicking out all day! the ryan anderson substituion was what really hurt us though. that and swat coming in. shameful loss and we didnt seem to upset about it either. i am steaming over here.
I'd say more like mid-twenties. I think is birth certificate was done by the same office that doctored the Chinese gymnasts.
Yeah, they score, but they also get scored upon like nobody's business. Frank gave up on Lopez too soon. He was turning the ball over a lot, but he was just getting it going when he got pulled. The Knicks won tonight because three key guys went off. Chandler, Harrington, and Thomas all got extremely hot. That doesn't happen for them much, which was why they were 9-12. Thomas hitting the 3s and Harrington actually hitting some jumpers was killing them. And Chandler last night was 2 for 13, and tonight went 10 for 12, which is ridiculous. That is the NBA, each game comes down to 4 or 5 missed or made shots either way. Sometimes team catch fire, and there's not a lot you can do. The most depressing thing is that the Nets may as well play their games in a high school gym. The non-home court they have will probably cost them about 5 to 7 wins this year at least.
