[video=youtube;tFMvrBHMhNQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMvrBHMhNQ&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;Run5tPMjk3s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Run5tPMjk3s&feature=related[/video] [video=youtube;7ICqMhiR2wA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ICqMhiR2wA&feature=related[/video] Awesome game, overall.
Screw that, it's the most important game the Nets have played since they joined the NBA. It's also the best sporting event I've ever actually been at.
Man, do you hear that crowd? This is why Kidd deserves nothing less than a standing O on Friday night.
Well, I agree with sentence 2. It's probably the most important game the Nets WON. I'd argue that game 7 vs. Detroit in 2004 was more important - that decided the NBA champion, and who knows what would've happened with Kenyon Martin had the Nets won a ring that year.
I was semi-bitter with the departing of Kidd last season, but it's games like this that remind me how much he's done for the franchise. I'm still not sure if I would cheer or boo this guy, but if people want to boo him, let it be for just this game, we're not raptor fans after all...
Nope. Game 5 is the most important game the Nets have ever played since entering the NBA without question. If that game was lost, the Nets still would've been considered a laughing stock. To get the number 1 seed and lose in the first round would've been a disaster. People would think "same old Nets". It is unquestionably the most important game the team has ever played. We absolutely would not have won a championship had we won game 7 in Detroit. We likely would've beaten the Pacers in the Conference Finals, but the Lakers would've swept us pretty easily.
I doubt that. Kidd was done after Game 5. If he'd been healthy, I think the Nets would have had a chance at the title, but the bottom line was that he wasn't, and we probably wouldn't have gotten past the Pacers. Think about how bad Game 6 was. That would have been the entire series against the Pacers.
The Nets would've had no chance at the title, because unlike Detroit, New Jersey had no one that could do a decent job on Shaq.
