i read this on hoopshype im not sure wat the actuall site is cause hoopshype gets there info from other sites anyway. someone asked jefferson wat the nets though about him joing the usa team and he said he doesnt care wat they think they are trading are team away for all i care they can trade me tomorro. do u think this is like his way of asking for a trade?
Thats What It Sounds To Me Hopefully That Is Not True Cause I Would Love Rj To Stay With The Nets. I JUST HOPE THAT THE WEBSITE IS NOT TRYING TO START SOMETHING. BUT I COULD SEE WHY HE WOULD SAY THAT
Wouldn't be suprised with the comment, i agree with it. RJ should stay with the Nets, although he's going to go down with them, since K-Mart left, and Kidd is likely to leave if we don't make a change.
if they mess the nets up be trading all these player and nothing pays off in the future i will be on pissed hombre. Dont get me wrong i love this team to death but why ruin something that you got good. Ratner doesnt seem like a gambling man everytime something comes up he bluffs and then folds. him buying the nets is the worst thing to happen to this team. i would love him to prove me wrong. Go ahead Ratner the cheapo prove me wrong i dare u
Well until I see some official links or I hear his comments for my self,before I say to much. But anyway.. I think its going to be hard to get RJ to sign a long term deal if Kidd is gone. But on a side note its funny,once the chips are down everybody wants to jump ship. In the era of extreme free Agency & weekly trades, teams window of opportunity to keep their core unit together & chase after a championship is greatly shorten. So how long were they expecting our window to last,yes the door for our championship dreams closed kind of sudden & in the wrong fashion. But realistically our window of opportunity was closing anyway. The Nets had 3 years where they had a very legit shot at coming away with the title,and now we have to fall back for awhile,it happens to the best of teams. But if cats was willing to stick around,it would make the period of time where we dont contend for a title alot shorter. Perfect example the Spurs in the in the late 90's, David Robinson misses basically the whole season with back problems in 96'. And the spurs who were a 55-60 win team & championship contender became & NBA doormat for thar 96' season winning only like 20 something games, but never once did I hear there other core guys like Sean Elliot or Avery Johnson even talk about wanting to be traded. The stuck it thru ended up getting Duncan with the 1st pick in the draft,jumped back in title contention & ended up holding the trophy once jordan left during the lockout season in 98-99. Now granted the situation is a bit different in the fact they knew they were eventually going to get D.Rob back and we are never getting K-Mart back. But when your star player misses an entire season, the 1st thing everybody thinks is he will never be the same player again. And everybody wants to rush to get off the sinking boat.But they didnt do that. And no we wont be getting a Duncan with those draft picks we got from Denver. But we might just find a player or two that is the missing part to us getting back in the thick of things. One thing that we do have in common with that team is there problems only lasted 1 season.And Rob Thorn has went on record to say that he is expecting us to fall out of contention for only a season or 2. So the players need to give Thorn that one season or 2 window to make the team better again before they start to demand trades & decide they arent willing to sign long term deal etc. because its being proven so many times that a quick tun around is very possible. But its only possible if you keep a large part of your foundation together. and if the Nets lose both RJ & Kidd then there is no foundation for this team to build from for now & in the future. And the Nets are doomed to being the post Jordan bulls for the next 7 or 8 years. A team that gets great 1st round draft spots every year but has no direction,so its almost like the picks are wasted. If kidd is a lost cause & he just doesnt want to come back, then the Nets need to do everything they can to keep RJ happy.Let him know that the franchise is willing to invest everything in his developement. And how do we do this? By the moves we make, if we trade kidd we trade him for parts that will help make RJ a better player like a young pg to replace kidd & grow with Jefferson, another legit wing scorer to take some of the scoring load off RJ and a legit bigman because you cant win in this league without one. We might not be able to solve all those problem with just one trade of an aging kidd but if we can solve at least 2 out of the 3,then I think that goes for something to prove we are still willing to put the parts in place to win in the near future.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting thedude9990:</div><div class="quote_post">i read this on hoopshype im not sure wat the actuall site is cause hoopshype gets there info from other sites anyway. someone asked jefferson wat the nets though about him joing the usa team and he said he doesnt care wat they think they are trading are team away for all i care they can trade me tomorro. do u think this is like his way of asking for a trade?</div> do you happen to maybe know the name of the article or interview? i wanna read it my self plus i like to save pretty much all articles or interviews having to do with him lol
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Q: Do the Nets care whether you play in the Olympics? A: ?I don?t care what they say. They?re trading away our team. They might trade me tomorrow as far as I know.?</div> Full Interview
yeah you can tell none of the players are really to happy about this what he said about them only being out of it for about 2 seasons, i think its going to be more than that. but right now its hard to guess what the nets next stupid plan is going to be. the way i look at it is kinda weird but it makes sense. think of the the nets as a sandbox or playground theres 3 kids playing in the sandbox one leaves (k-mart) then the another one leaves(j-kidd) soon the last friend(RJ) there will want to leave too because he has no one to play with he will probably stay for a little bit to see if any new friends come by but eventually the kid will leave because theres no one to help him build his sand castle thats was stupid know but o well
nobody has really talked about RJs contract extention. discussion of which starts a week from tomarrow the poor guy has to worry about the olympics too but i dont think hell take it if he doesnt he gets a chance to see what other options he has and maybe a clue of what kidds going to do after this season
I think he will get traded IMO because he juss doesnt seem fit anymore with Kidd now that K-Mart is gone. But it could be a plus side to this now that K-Mart is gone, he can step into the spotlight and it will be Jefferson and Kidd not Martin and Kidd.
i still think he fits but i think its mostly a matter of how fast he wants a championship ring and ur right about the spotlight going to be on kidd and RJ now insted
I Dont think RJ is going anyhwhere yet. or at least he wouldnt go anywhere because of his free will. i read an article that said he was happy in Nj
