Official Game Thread: Nets vs. Nuggets (Game 69)

Birth of the Cool · Post #21 » by **Birth of the Cool** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:47 am

Even on back-to-back...the Nets were ROLLING !!
Why would a coach kill the team's momentum...let the other damn team try & do that.

and to make it worse when Nuggets started killing when VC was on the bench Frank waited till the lead ballooned up to 10...c'mon..that sucks when your fighting for every game...SUCKS !!

Nets fight hard just to let their own damn coach kill their momentum...and screw Marcus this game...completely useless.

Adam1221 · Post #22 » by **Adam1221** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:48 am

I hope management wakes up and acknowledges just how bad Lawrence Frank is.
This loss(yes we already lost) is soley his fault no one elses.
Everyone played with a rush, the "big 3" played great basket-ball, the reason's we lost?
1.With no reason at all Frank decides to take out a rolling Devin Harris out of the game and insert him 1 minute later, its one thing to let your star rest its a completley different thing to take him out of the game, kill his momentum and give him no time to rest.
2.Why why why did he take out Vince for no reason whatsoever, he WAS rolling, take him out when he's sucking it up NO WHEN HE's TEARING IT UP!

Serpo · Post #23 » by **Serpo** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:51 am

Marcus is a game changer for the Nets and sadly a negative one , i can't believe this guy was supposed to be the best PG prospect.

60cent · Post #24 » by **60cent** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:55 am

I think Frank has to give Diop a little bit more PT. He's using JB too much and i think the Nuggets backcourt are too quick for him and the Nuggets frontcourt is just dominating esp. defensively.

You can clearly see the difference when Frank substituted Diop and SW for Krstic and JB, we got back in the game.

Anyways, i really would like to make the playoffs but thinking about Boston just makes me want them to lose and just get a better pick.

OMG, JB just got pushed by Melo in the 2:00 mark and Melo tipped the ball in. ><

HotShots · Post #25 » by **HotShots** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:55 am

Where is Keith Van Horn, when you need him?????????

KVH should be our 4th quarter guy.......... :wink:

Serpo · Post #26 » by **Serpo** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:57 am

We are so much like Dallas ironically right now our bench loses the Games ....

Birth of the Cool · Post #27 » by **Birth of the Cool** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:00 am

I don't normally rant against Frank like others here do but he totally screwed his own team this game.

He sat both Devin & VC when they were hot & the team was going well. The arena was behind them & they came back from a huge deficit & they get stopped by their OWN DAMN COACH !! Frank realized his stupidity by throwing Devin back in the game pronto but he let VC sit while the lead went back up to double digits....it's sick what Frank did this game..sick !!

George "over the hill" Karl looked good vs Frank...

the bench was also total garbage...I like Boki but how the heck did he airball a wide open 3...c'mon..and Marcus totally stalled the offense everytime he touched the floor. If Marcus isn't hitting his three he's practically useless these days.

it's sad when freakin' Kleiza clowns you..damn.

Adam1221 · Post #28 » by **Adam1221** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:02 am

Serpo wrote:Marcus is a game changer for the Nets and sadly a negative one , i can't believe this guy was supposed to be the best PG prospect.

1.It has nothing to do with him, Frank did everything he could to ruin the kid's confidence when he got his oppurtonities he was usually playing like Kidd with an inferior defence but Frank the polititian cant take out the blame for this awful season on our stars(Vince is showing us that it wasnt his fault and that he really was hurt, Kidd on the other hand) or heaven forbid himself he'll take it out on Marcus and Sean.

2.Again with the way the big 3 was playing tonight we didnt need bench production Frank's assinine rotations absulotley killed us, you take out players when they cant go anymore NOT WHEN THEYRE playing like All stars.

3.God this is beyong frustrating it just doesnt make any sense anymore. Its beyond believble that a proffesional NBA coach does everything on every single night to sabatoge this team and the guy(Thorn) that drafted the single greatest player in the game's history doesnt realise that he needs to be GONE!

hisairness · Post #29 » by **hisairness** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:03 am

Nachbar is seriously trying to play his way out of rotation, he's been awful at everything lately. The amount of bad, careless passes from Nets if frightening. Can RJ make a pass on fastbreak that doesn't go in to stands?

Serpo · Post #30 » by **Serpo** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:08 am

I understood why he sat VC and Devin BUT he should have taken them in again when it started to look bad .

This was a bad mistake our awful bench was out there way too long.

Samuel · Post #31 » by **Samuel** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:10 am

Well there is one positive thing about this,After 69 gmaes I think that fRank has finally realized that we can only succeed with Carter.

Granted,Carter was not healthy but Frank is really killing me!

I like the guy,he is a really good guy but he is really hurting this team with his bad moves.

He and Nackbar cost us this game.

60cent · Post #32 » by **60cent** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:10 am

hisairness wrote:Nachbar is seriously trying to play his way out of rotation, he's been awful at everything lately. The amount of bad, careless passes from Nets if frightening. Can RJ make a pass on fastbreak that doesn't go in to stands?

LOL

RJ is a good player but for some reason he just hesitates to pass the ball, there was a lot of times, not just this game, when someone would cut downlow and RJ would hold the ball and hesitates until the open teammate is not open anymore. ><

Serpo · Post #33 » by **Serpo** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:13 am

Carter sat just two minutes there and we basically lost the game in that time ...

And i dare you to defend Marcus . How has Frank killed his confidence ?
He gets a lot more minutes since the trade and everybody expects him to step up and help the team .

But instead is looking more to shoot then to pass and when he passes he passes it very often sloppy .

He's just not helping right now and Devin plays great , he can't expect to get even more minutes when he plays like that.

We all know he can play but he has to god damn show it more regularly or he'll have a problem. Step up and play like you care man .

SteveNets15 · Post #34 » by **SteveNets15** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:34 am

Dam! we needed that win.Carter looks really motivated out there he's actually playing hard like he wants to win.Big game tomorrow I think will bounce back with a win in Philly.

Birth of the Cool · Post #35 » by **Birth of the Cool** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:59 am

Last year Marcus was able to penetrate against defenses and used his body to shield block attempts by defender to score layups. That move has been gone this season so we're left with a guy who floats around the perimeter looking to make passing & scoring plays from the perimeter most of the time.

When is the last time Marcus went to the rim with the ball, he now settles for the perimeter shot or the mid-game pull up & since he's small & not very athletic any kind of contested shot on the mid-game is difficult. I know this kid has game. He should be used to being the bench PG and be the 'spark' for the 2nd unit or maybe the sporadic rotations/minutes is hindering him but he & Boki are basically the bench offense so if their off it's all on the starters.

I'd really like to see Diop start with Krstic and Boone/Marcus come in together off the bench to see if that familiarity will ignite Marcus plus it helps settle our defense in beginning of games.

Atlanta has a tough game vs Magic tomorrow I believe but Philly has been rollin' too so no easy picnic for the Nets.

This game still nags me...VC/RJ combine for 61 pts on 56% shooting to outplay the # 1 scoring tandem in the NBA of AI/Melo who had 43 pts on 50% shooting and we still get smoked.

halfHAVOC · Post #36 » by **halfHAVOC** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:07 am

what happened, i missed the game basically why did we lose? and no biased info lol jus the facts.

NetsForce · Post #37 » by **NetsForce** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:55 am

Well guys... At least Villanova won today.

etopn23 · Post #38 » by **etopn23** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:10 am

Although we lost -- who lit a fire under VC/Harris/RJ's asses. Those are some ridiculous numbers over the past 2 games.

Adam1221 · Post #39 » by **Adam1221** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:57 am

halfHAVOC wrote:what happened, i missed the game basically why did we lose? and no biased info lol jus the facts.

Here's the rundown.
We trail by 17 in the 3rd quarter.
We actually come back and lead by 1 point.
Frank for no reason at all takes out a FLIPIN rollin Harris, and after the offense sucks inserts him back in 1 minute later so what did he do with that move? NOTHING but kill his momentum.
The team was again rolling and Frank decides to take out Vince who was playing life an all star which lead to a 12 nothing run......and Frank being Frank didnt do anything until the lead got back to 12.

dacher · Post #40 » by **dacher** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:32 pm

Why we lost?

Kleiza whipped us up and down the court. Boki was AWOL.

VC did good. Everyone else was their usual and expected self.

I do believe this is the first time the Nugs have beaten us in NJ since KMart went over there.