GT: Nets vs. Blazers 2/21/19 7:30pm EST

[MrDollarBills]

centers were irrelevant. we hit our threes and we win period.

says every team in the NBA LOL...

LOL, that was my point too. Prok's whole argument boiled down to "If we score more points, we win the game" lmao.

I also don't necessarily agree that the Nets philosophy is to live with bigs dropping 50 points on us, surely the front office can't be pleased with that. Nurkic and Kanter were beating the brakes off of us and the Blazers were still getting good looks from deep.

Yeah, no offense, but if that's the long-term plan for the Nets, they're never gonna have a ton of success. Letting bigs just get tons of points while you the Nets rely on jumpers and just roll out a ton of 6'7" guys really doesn't feel like a very sustainable model. Saying a team needs to add size doesn't = going back to the NBA stoneage of Shaq and Duncan. It just means having at least one guy at C who doesn't get pushed around easily. Even in this new-era NBA, rolling out a 6'7" PF isn't ideal for most teams... and using the Warriors as an example for why it does work doesn't count. I'm a 5'10" white kid and I could play PF for the Warriors if Curry, Thompson, KD and Boogie were the other 4 players on the court. If you have 4 perennial All Stars, than sure, you can get away with the 6'7" PF... aside from that, you're gonna struggle more often than not.

Good news for the Nets is, they're gonna have loads of cap space and they're a destination franchise - so you guys shouldn't have any problem filling that spot this summer.

Well yeah, Allen is still a 20 year old kid who needs to gain strength and we are pretty much playing with a massive hole at PF.

I don't think any of what was on display is even remotely the long term plan defensively. I'm hoping the team is seriously considering taking a look at Bobby Portis, 6'11 250 lbs PF that can shoot the deep ball. But yeah I'm not worried either tbh, this season has already been a beyond my wild expectations. We'll try to survive the next 2 months and see how things go from there in free agency and the draft.

Good luck to you guys the rest of the way.

[MGrand15]

Our center rotation is more than fine. Allen is weak but when he's engaged, he can at least make the bigger centers work for it. Last night was just a bad game. He got punked right out the gate and never bounced back.

For all the talk about Rodions hitting a wall, we can't just let Graham and RHJ slide. It's no coincidence we started playing MUCH better when Rodi jumped in the rotation. Sitting him so we can watch RHJ and Graham throw up bricks doesn't make sense. Rodi is skinny but won't have any problems with stretch 4s like Aminu. With LeVert back, he can start handling the ball less. You could tell he was forcing it a bit because he was basically the secondary ball handler on the starting unit.

Portland's a good team. No reason to panic. But we've been straight up awful recently. If we don't pick it up, we could easily hit a slide like we did when LeVert first got injured. The team is basically changing every day which makes it hard to establish an identity. Missing the playoffs would be pretty embarrassing at this point and it's still very much in play.

[MrDollarBills]

Our center rotation is more than fine. Allen is weak but when he's engaged, he can at least make the bigger centers work for it. Last night was just a bad game. He got punked right out the gate and never bounced back.

For all the talk about Rodions hitting a wall, we can't just let Graham and RHJ slide. It's no coincidence we started playing MUCH better when Rodi jumped in the rotation. Sitting him so we can watch RHJ and Graham throw up bricks doesn't make sense. Rodi is skinny but won't have any problems with stretch 4s like Aminu. With LeVert back, he can start handling the ball less. You could tell he was forcing it a bit because he was basically the secondary ball handler on the starting unit.

Portland's a good team. No reason to panic. But we've been straight up awful recently. If we don't pick it up, we could easily hit a slide like we did when LeVert first got injured. The team is basically changing every day which makes it hard to establish an identity. Missing the playoffs would be pretty embarrassing at this point and it's still very much in play.

Rodi being out of the rotation is the most nonsensical move I've seen from Kenny in awhile.

I like Graham and Rondae is my guy but they have provided the Nets with next to nothing production wise consistently. Their defense isn't needle moving enough to warrant them being given minutes over Kurucs, or even Dudley for that matter.

[Prokorov]

Rodi being out of the rotation is the most nonsensical move I've seen from Kenny in awhile.

I like Graham and Rondae is my guy but they have provided the Nets with next to nothing production wise consistently. Their defense isn't needle moving enough to warrant them being given minutes over Kurucs, or even Dudley for that matter.

Its actually a really smart move. and frankly its probably a tad late.

Kurucs played 59 last season. like the entire season.

he has played 859 minutes this season, in the NBA, with more travel, vs bigger guys ina faster paced game. Typical college players hit a rookie wall, Kurucs is even more extreme, having not even played anything close to a 30 game college season

he needs to be heavily managed if we want him to contribute in the playoffs