Joe Johnson running his overpaid mouth again

[egelband]

they say to turn the other cheek and ignore stupidity. but it can be trying.
the nets are a bunch of never-has-beens and never-will-bes. not that the knicks have a great pedigree of winning, but at least they have some players with fire in their eyes. i've never seen a team with more mouth-breathers than the nets. evans, joe johnson, blatche, humphries...even deron williams appears semi-retarded. and gerald wallace must have brain damage at this point. i couldn't root for any of those guys...lopez is the only one who i could see playing a leading role on a good team. and he's far from a complete player. johnson is talented but, as i said, not a winner.

[digitaldropoff]

33% isn't bad at all. It means that a normal game for JR is to shoot 1/3 or 2/6 from three. I'll take that.

Wow...talk about insulting peeps intelligence!? Let me guess....the sky is blue as well?

[knicksRback]

Wait so the Nets think there so good? We just got a few critical key piece in our lineup and we are STILL missing critical pieces (Felton and Camby and Rasheed) shumpert is on a minute limit, Stoudemire is still getting into game shape after not playing ball for months, carmelo had one of his worst games of the season and the Nets only won by 3 lmfaoooo ... We have been playing bad lately and Nets been playing much better and we are STILL ahead of them. FoH Nets fans you know your team aint **** when the Nets starting lineup got booed at Barclays center

[ctorres]

33% isn't bad at all. It means that a normal game for JR is to shoot 1/3 or 2/6 from three. I'll take that.

Wow...talk about insulting peeps intelligence!? Let me guess....the sky is blue as well?

That was not my intention. I'm just saying, 33% for a spark plug go-to scorer off the bench who makes difficult shots is not bad.

[knicksRback]

33% isn't bad at all. It means that a normal game for JR is to shoot 1/3 or 2/6 from three. I'll take that.

Wow...talk about insulting peeps intelligence!? Let me guess....the sky is blue as well?

That was not my intention. I'm just saying, 33% for a spark plug go-to scorer off the bench who makes difficult shots is not bad.

Lets not forget the stretch JR had before he bumped heads with Bradley, he was absolutely killing it befor then and i am very confident that he will bounce back, and i think the team will bounce back just fine when Felton finally comes back

[Rasho Brezec]

33% is bad no matter how you slice it.

[ToHoleWithSoul]

We're still in first place with a depleted roster, be-otch...

[Vorikan]

Let them have their 5minutes of fame,when the Knicks won them there was so much less bragging from Knicks,it just shows that ther players and fans are immature,wants to compare to history and fame of the Knicks you will never be at the same level as Knicks in NY deal with it,just like Clippers no matter what they do,they will always be 2nd team in the City.

[ctorres]

33% is bad no matter how you slice it.

It's a matter of opinion where you draw the line on a 3 point percentage. This is my grading curve....

43% and higher is dominant (Novak)
37% to 42% is above average (Anthony, Kidd, Copeland, White)
33% to 36% is average/good (Felton, Smith, Shumpert, Prigioni)
32% and lower is below average/bad (Wallace, Brewer)

Wallace is at 32.4% though so he can easily bring that up if he makes just one or two threes his next game.

[moocow007]

Joe...youre supposed to say this before the game not after the game...ya lammo.

[seren]

Among 136 players who shot enough threes to qualify, JR ranks 111th.

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/playe ... t/count/81

What really kills is his recent numbers. It came from almost 48 percent in November to less than 28 percent in December and January combined.

That is horrible to say the least. This is besides the fact that he is taking more and more threes recently. He was averaging 2.9 attempts in November. He is averaging more than 5.6 attempts since then.

JR's play is a problem.

[TheGarden]

33% is bad no matter how you slice it.

I got a million dollars, I'm going to give you 33% of it, is that bad

[TheGarden]

The Nets are focus on being the best team in New York, you can tell by the Eastern Conference Finals or bust goal

The Knicks are focus on being NBA Champions

[br7knicks]

JR Smith's numbers:
33.7 mpg
16.7 ppg
40.5% FG's
33.1% 3-PT FG's
80.2% FT's
5.0 rpg
2.9 apg
1.4 spg

Joe Johnson's numbers:
38.4 mpg
17.4 ppg
42.7% FG's
38.8% 3-PT FG's
81.1% FT's
3.0 rpg
3.5 apg
0.7 spg

JR Smith makes $2.8 million this season.
Joe Johnson makes $19.8 million this season.

33 percent three point shooting looks awful and explains our slip. He was shooting more than 45 percent at the beginning of the season.

We gotta reduce JR's role somehow.

with shump back, felton on his way, and prigs proving he can handle the NBA game i think his minutes will drop, thus forcing him to play smart like he did in the beginning. dude has been playing like classic JR recently

[aj49689]

JR Smith's numbers:
33.7 mpg
16.7 ppg
40.5% FG's
33.1% 3-PT FG's
80.2% FT's
5.0 rpg
2.9 apg
1.4 spg

Joe Johnson's numbers:
38.4 mpg
17.4 ppg
42.7% FG's
38.8% 3-PT FG's
81.1% FT's
3.0 rpg
3.5 apg
0.7 spg

JR Smith makes $2.8 million this season.
Joe Johnson makes $19.8 million this season.

Great point! This alone makes me feel much better about our team. One thing that stood out last night is the number of turnovers, knicks had 5, Nets had 19. We shot 10 more FGs and only 3 less free throws. We should of gotten beat by more then 3, and Im sure were not gonna always struggle shooting this bad. Amare looks like he is getting implemented into the offense and will become more useful as we go. I feel as if there hasn't been enough plays to set up Novak and I know they can do better. They need to run him on some curls and we need to utilize the pick more.