MrDollarBills wrote:HardenGoat wrote:The fact we were winning games right up to the point we announced Kyrie was coming back then start losing to lesser adversaries speaks volumes. Something is up. Like a trade situation or a pecking order or likely both. There’s a rift going on.
Yeah. I didn't want to point to this but the losing coincided with Kyrie's return. Something is going on behind the scenes.
whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... I'm sorry, but are we really using this as some kind of excuse for our coaching and play? Let me breakdown the timeline for you:
12/15: Shams reports Kyrie is back, Nets confirm a day or so later.
12/16: Nets beat the 76ers
12/18: Nets lose to Magic (starters: Mills, Galloway, Thomas, Edwards, Blake)
12/25: Nets beat lakers
12/27: Nets blowout clippers
*** So nearly 2 weeks after announcement Kyrie is back Nets are 3-1 with only loss coming in game with gleaguers ***12/30: Nets blow lead to Sixers, loss
1/1: Nets blow lead to Clippers, loss
1/3: Grizz stomp nets, loss
1/5: Kyrie returns, powers nets to come from behind win
1/7: Bucks stop nets, loss
1/9: Nets blow big lead to spurs, hold on to win in OT
1/10: Nets suffer embarrassing loss to blazers on road w/ Kyrie
So for 4 games and 3 quarters kyrie was a non issue... then the guys huddled and said "man, kyrie is distracting us but not being all in, no way we can hang on to this big lead. we have to fold.. cause.. kyrie ya know"
then vs clips same thing. Kyrie not an issue for 42 minutes as we are up 13 with 6 to go, but his distraction has us blow that lead to the james ennis lead clippers?
4-7 in 11 games since Kyrie returned. lets look at the prior 10 games to kyries annoucement:
6-4 with losses to the rockets and barely squawking by a decimated raps team in OT after blowing a lead and barely getting by the Knicks after again collapsing late.
Big picture with or without Kyrie we are 10-10 in our last 20 games with losses to:
Portland (no dame/CJ/Nance/Powell)
Clippers (No George, Kawahi, Jackson, Morris)
Rockets
Magic
and barely scraped by decimated Raps (OT), decimated Spurs (OT), Decimated Wolves, and Knicks.
If we have internal issues because of Kyrie, it would have started long before his part time return. Their are more obvious more glaring reasons. Our offense has absolutely tanked and we are dead last in threes since Harris got hurt. Nash' inability to generate offense without 2 stars + 2 elite role floor spacers at all times has turned us into a bad offense. Nash is so inept and generating offense (Again this is a guy with KD/Harden) that he has publically stated postgame after postgame that this team needs to "win with defense"
I dont care if we lack shooters. if you cant be a top 10 offense with 40 minutes of KD/Harden/Mlls you need to let someone else take charge of things.