Oh.. no .. we lose to Grizzlies... but Nenad play a very good game..Next we must win Timberwolves and...Bobcats( they win two game from magic)... I hope Jefferson can come back soon...!!!!
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting DragonKid:</div><div class="quote_post">Oh.. no .. we lose to Grizzlies... but Nenad play a very good game..Next we must win Timberwolves and...Bobcats( they win two game from magic)... I hope Jefferson can come back soon...!!!! </div> RJ said that he will try to play one or two regular season games before the playoff starts if the Nets get in. So he wont have any impact on the actually race to get into the 8th seed unless, it comes down to the very last couple of games which is possible. But dont look for RJ to save the Nets in the race to get in....But once the playoffs start and hopefully, RJ can provide a positive spark. As for the loss yeah, it was a negative blow. But nothing close to a knockout, it just puts more emphasis on saturday's game vs the Timberwolves, cause the Wolves had played well their last few games and are holding on their last playoff lifeline like we are, so an A games should be expected from them. But realistically I wasnt expecting them to pullout wins against both Memphis & Minny.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting DragonKid:</div><div class="quote_post">kdub, you wrote something wrong.. Grizzlies is 0.500 team, but you wite we lose to 0.400 team~</div> Thanks for the heads up, I corrected it. Although the blueprint is using records that were current at the time of creation. So if teams happen to change from .500 to .400, etc, I won't reflect that. In terms of the loss, I would have rather loss to Memphis anyways if we were to go 1-1 the rest of the homestand. Losing to struggling Minnesota would feel worse than losing to the winning and stable Grizz.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kdub:</div><div class="quote_post"> In terms of the loss, I would have rather loss to Memphis anyways if we were to go 1-1 the rest of the homestand. Losing to struggling Minnesota would feel worse than losing to the winning and stable Grizz.</div> The problem is that Minny is not struggling anymore. As Henacy said, they are playing hard inorder to get in to the playoffs. If the Nets would have gone 1-1 during this homestand, they would have beat Memphis last night, but since that did not occur, it looks to me that this homestand remains at 0-2. The next games after these however, the Nets really have a great stretch of games to make up ground.
Everybody, you are right...Nets falls to 0-2 this home game against west...Damn... Who can tell me why the two team against us, their some players became so crazy.. J-Will had 8 for 9 shot, Cassel had 10 for 13 shot, but Carter couldn't score so much, J-Kidd can't make shot, all of our team couldn't shoot 3 pointers...sigh... 3 games behind sixers.....will Nets still get the playoff tickets ? Now I miss Jefferson. We need his defense just like to defense the crazy shooters like Cassel and J-Will last two games !!!!!
Well Iam not mad at the fact we lost seing as the return of Sammy has co-insided with good Timberwolves basketball as of late which is no surprise to me. Iam just dissappointed in the way we lost, for a team with their backs against the wall, the Nets put up no fight, the effort on the backboards was terrible right from the start. I dont understand how Jason Collins can continously let Kandi out work him for rebounds. And this isnt the 1st game it happened either Kandiman had a field day against Collins in the gam,e in Minny earlier this year. Our lack of a third scoring pressence presented its self again tonight, Minny pretty much did what Memphis did to us defensive which is pack the zone against Carter on the strong side forcing the ball out of his hands, making other guys have to knock down perimeter shots, JV made some early but in the 2nd half he pretty much went south just like everyone else. It would be nice for Rodney Buford to step in and make some shots to bust up some of these Zones teams are throwing at us...But until then for the rest of the season you can count on teams conitously throwing zones and packing it in the lanes to force guys to make outside shots. Anyway, as expected a difficult night for Krstic, KG never really got off against him. But Krstic just cant stay out of foul trouble right now when matched up against someone with Garnett's versatitly. Can really blam him tho, not to often he will be matched against a 6-11 guy who makes most of his plays starting at the top of the key. Anyway a big game against the Bobcats coming up a team playing surprisingly well these last few games they just beat the Heat earlier today.
Ok, that was just bad. Lucky for the Nets, Indiana and Orlando lost. But the Nets really need to start pushing themselves more as the season winds down.
Geez, how many dunks did Vince Carter have in the game vs the Bobcats? Well, the Nets needed all of them, as they won a somewhat close game vs Charlotte, and completes a season sweep of Charlotte, and a sweep of all the remaining .300 teams. Now for the rest of the .400 and .500 teams.
The Nets showed the passing game today, and showed it well. They assisted on 34 of 41 made field goals, with Kidd leading the pass first Nets, while Carter lead the offensive explosion. Perhaps showing the Nets strenght and weakness, the Nets were unable to get any points on the board for a while in the fourth quarter when Kidd and Carter went out. But Scalabrine got hot, and the Clippers could only match baskets, and not get more points than they gave up.
A BIG GAME WIN... WE NEED ANOTHER 4 winning streak for 0.500. Kidd only played 29 minutes..but 13 assists...and two three pointers... so nice..
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting DragonKid:</div><div class="quote_post">A BIG GAME WIN... WE NEED ANOTHER 4 winning streak for 0.500. Kidd only played 29 minutes..but 13 assists...and two three pointers... so nice..</div> not to mention Carters 31 in 33. I wished Zoran had gotten more playing time though.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting kdub:</div><div class="quote_post">not to mention Carters 31 in 33. I wished Zoran had gotten more playing time though.</div> 1I knew once he got injured back in November/December that he would lose his spot in the rotation. The Nets are way to guard heavy right now for a guy to miss 20+ games, and get his same spot back in the rotation. Rodney Buford was playing some of his best basketball of his career before he got injured at the LA game. But his injury allowed other guys to fit back into the rotation like Vaughn and Billy Thomas for awhile. And the only reason he has somewhat gotten back into the rotation is because Billy Thomas' jumpshot really went south. And then Mercer got injured again. But Rodney Buford still doesnt have anything close to the role on the team he had pre-injury. Fact is on a guard heavy team the role player perimeter guys cant afford to get injured cause they spots in the rotation are going to be filled by someone else. Tonight was a very nice win aside from Vince Carter's 33 including that spectacular play catching the Kidd pass off the glass, my favorite move had to be the "Dream Shake" dropstep move Nenad Krstic made on Mike Moore in the 3rd quarter to get the And1 play. Krstic once again shows us a move that defines his progression as a basketball player. And he is only going to get better.
Nets win a close one at New York, and finally pass Orlando for the 9th seed. They now need to focus on getting past Philadelphia.
Sorry this is so offtopic and everything, but I just needed to find out the standpoint from Raps fans and Nets fans: Who do you think will win on April 15th? Keep in mind this is Vince's first game in TO and yes, I'm ashamed to say, he'll get booed like HELL. Personally I think it's a 50/50 chance.
yea only half game out......and to answer ur question raptors the way i see it is that vince carter will probabaly have a huge game scoring 40+ points to show all the critics in toronto screw u guys i like it better here and u traded me for crap. the game will b close imo im really bad at predicitin winners so im not going to lol
