GT: Nets @ San Antonio Spurs - 12/31 - 7:00pm

[Paradise]

The Road Trip From Hell Continues...



The Nets

-5-8 in the month of December
-Team Average of 102.4 points per game
-In losses, The Nets allow 107.3 points per game (28th) and 42 rebounds per game
-In Wins, The Nets allow 94.4 points per game
-4-12 on the road
-Dray Blatche: OUT (Personal Reasons)

The Opponent

(24-7)



-10-4 in the month of December
-Team Average of 108.7 points per game (6th)
-Team Defense Average of 101.1 (4th)
-In losses, the Spurs allow 110.1 points per game and allow 46.6 rebounds per game
-11-4 home record

Expected Starting Lineups

NETS: D-Will, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce, Mirza Teletovic, Kevin Garnett

Spurs: Tony Parker, Marco Bellineli, Kawhi Leonard, Tiago Splitter, Tim Duncan.



Injury Report

[tweet]https://twitter.com/NYDNInterNets/status/417752041767723008[/tweet]

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The Charms

Spoiler:

Last Night: Nets 13th in the East
Tonight: Nets 10th in the East

Happy New Year's Eve & Long Live The Leastern Conference!

[therealbig3]

Kirilenko's playing??? Wow.

Eh, whatever, I don't really care about this upcoming blowout loss. I'm gonna be drunk tomorrow night anyway.

[jeff1624]

The question isn't "can we win this game?" The question is can we lose by less than 25?

[Quiet-Dude]

Spurs to close out the year in blowout fashion

[kerry kittles]

The Spurs blow us out and set an NBA record for 3's made in a game

[Keith Van Horn]

Repeat of last year anyone?

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[Prokorov]

spurs 133 nets 68

thats if duncan, parker, and ginobili dont play.

[kerry kittles]

At least they'll be celebrating the loss...

[Keith Van Horn]

Blatche has been away preparing for this event!

The silhouette looks like KG.


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[vincecarter4pres]

Damn, 4 bottles for $350?! Is that club in San An, or Patterson?

Oh and I feel a win tonight. Yeah I'm about that crazy. Someone pour me a double.

[Keith Van Horn]

Just turned game on...did terry get start over Johnson?

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[Paradise]

Just turned game on...did terry get start over Johnson?

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2 quick fouls

[Paradise]

What's the point of starting Mirza if you refuse to run a pick and pop to get him open against a big man that can't guard him?

[kerry kittles]

Plumlee got whacked there. Refs have been pretty lousy

[big bill]

How did I know Deron would get hurt on that break? Oh, man...

[JMaine518]

New Year, New Net...wait same ol' nets.

[therealbig3]

About to go out, but here's an observation I've had about teams like the Spurs and Pacers:

They get away with a LOT of crap that goes uncalled. I thought that was a clear foul on Splitter on Pierce, and honestly, that's a call that's made 99% of the time. I feel like the Pacers and Spurs get the benefit of the whistle/no whistle all the time, because of their reputation.

[Paradise]

Well, atleast Plumlee appears to be getting better.

[therealbig3]

And this is why D-Will is so annoying, WTF is he doing out there? Nothing. He's so non-existent, so passive, just standing on the wing doing nothing, acting as nothing but a spot up shooter.

He's our best player but he doesn't want to be. He wants to be a role player. And he does this every single time we're an underdog and need a superstar performance out of him to have a chance. Only time he'll show up in those games is when he's NOT the best player and someone like JJ is on fire. Then he'll gladly play the #2 option, which is **** ing annoying. We pay him to be our #1, and right now, he's playing like a bench player.

[kerry kittles]

And Tony Parker is getting wherever he wants on the court.