Brooklyn Nets Home Crowd: Your thoughts?

Shanman · Post #1 » by **Shanman** » Tue May 13, 2014 12:55 am

I'm genuinely surprised that the home crowd at the Barclays has been so weak this year in the playoffs... are we overanalyzing the situation or do you agree? If so, why is this the case? I could have sworn Brooklyn used to be louder last year.

MrDollarBills · Post #2 » by **MrDollarBills** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:27 am

Are you trolling? The Nets have the smallest fanbase in the league due to being in New Jersey, a satellite state for NYC and Philadelphia

Shanman · Post #3 » by **Shanman** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:34 am

The Nets are not in New Jersey. It's 2014, they're in Brooklyn... New York City's most populated borough, where basketball fans are rabid and I would imagine happy to see a winner in the city with the Knicks slumping.

I'm not trolling, just curious to see what the boards make of the obviously lukewarm playoff atmosphere in Brooklyn. No need to be hostile.

Paradise · Post #4 » by **Paradise** » Tue May 13, 2014 5:29 am

Shanman wrote:The Nets are not in New Jersey. It's 2014, they're in Brooklyn... New York City's most populated borough, where basketball fans are rabid and I would imagine happy to see a winner in the city with the Knicks slumping.

I'm not trolling, just curious to see what the boards make of the obviously lukewarm playoff atmosphere in Brooklyn. No need to be hostile.

The diehard Nets fans can't exactly afford $150 playoff tickets compared to last year. Half of the crowd are casual fans and celebs that are too cool to cheer. It's become a problem with the Yankees lately as well. I wouldn't expect any truly rabid crowds for another 5-10 years when the Nets have been around for a bit longer for people to buy into since this is still a city 68 years rooted with the Knicks.

I don't get why everyone keeps pointing out our crowd when Indiana, LA Clippers, Chicago and Miami by far have been much quieter crowds during the playoffs.

Shanman · Post #5 » by **Shanman** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:23 am

Even the official Brooklyn Nets twitter account pointed out the lack of energy in the crowd, and even compared to the cities you mentioned it seems Brooklyn has placed last based on consensus. I feel your pain about the high playoff tickets too... however I doubt you can blame it on that completely considering that the Raptors had the highest ticket prices for playoff games this year and still found a way to arguably be the best home crowd in the NBA playoffs.

I feel it may boil down to the personnel on the team. It's a team you root for but it doesn't seem like the city has really connected with these players on a human level... it's very interesting because we all know that Brooklyn is a basketball city. While the players on the team or all talented, I feel like the arena would be rocking if they had come together more organically. Just my opinion...

Paradise · Post #6 » by **Paradise** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:21 am

Shanman wrote:Even the official Brooklyn Nets twitter account pointed out the lack of energy in the crowd, and even compared to the cities you mentioned it seems Brooklyn has placed last based on consensus. I feel your pain about the high playoff tickets too... however I doubt you can blame it on that completely considering that the Raptors had the highest ticket prices for playoff games this year and still found a way to arguably be the best home crowd in the NBA playoffs.

I feel it may boil down to the personnel on the team. It's a team you root for but it doesn't seem like the city has really connected with these players on a human level... it's very interesting because we all know that Brooklyn is a basketball city. While the players on the team or all talented, I feel like the arena would be rocking if they had come together more organically. Just my opinion...

The Raptors have been in Toronto for 19 years. The Nets have been in Brooklyn for 2 years and still continue to establish itself which is why nobody has fully connected to this roster emotionally aside from Reggie Evans who became a huge fan favorite here.

As much flack the Brooklyn fans get, the building was soldout regularly during that 10-21 stretch when these same Nets were getting blown out often and booed off the floor and the Nets surprisingly have better attendance than Portland and Toronto which are two of the best home crowds in the league, so the Nets have come a long way regardless with attendance. Once we build a contender or add a hometown player, I think we will see better emotional support from the crowds.

NjNeTs1029 · Post #7 » by **NjNeTs1029** » Tue May 13, 2014 10:42 am

Well I'll be honest with you. I'm always loud when I go to the games but i refuse to pay $250 to sit in the upper corner sections. I'm sure there are plenty of ppl in the same situation.

MrDollarBills · Post #8 » by **MrDollarBills** » Tue May 13, 2014 11:15 am

Shanman wrote:Even the official Brooklyn Nets twitter account pointed out the lack of energy in the crowd, and even compared to the cities you mentioned it seems Brooklyn has placed last based on consensus. I feel your pain about the high playoff tickets too... however I doubt you can blame it on that completely considering that the Raptors had the highest ticket prices for playoff games this year and still found a way to arguably be the best home crowd in the NBA playoffs.

I feel it may boil down to the personnel on the team. It's a team you root for but it doesn't seem like the city has really connected with these players on a human level... it's very interesting because we all know that Brooklyn is a basketball city. While the players on the team or all talented, I feel like the arena would be rocking if they had come together more organically. Just my opinion...

No, the Nets have a small fanbase and most people attending the big games aren't fans of the team

This isn't rocket science.

Prokorov · Post #9 » by **Prokorov** » Tue May 13, 2014 4:38 pm

Shanman wrote:The Nets are not in New Jersey. It's 2014, they're in Brooklyn... New York City's most populated borough, where basketball fans are rabid and I would imagine happy to see a winner in the city with the Knicks slumping.

I'm not trolling, just curious to see what the boards make of the obviously lukewarm playoff atmosphere in Brooklyn. No need to be hostile.

brooklyn is irrelevant because the basketball fans who live there are 99% knick fans.

Wonderllama · Post #10 » by **Wonderllama** » Tue May 13, 2014 5:09 pm

I went to the last Nets/Knicks game... I swear half the people there were rooting for the Knicks. NYC is very much a Knicks town. The Brooklyn Nets are still too new. When the Nets finally get a top 10 player that the masses love, then it might start to change. The current roster doesn't seem very "likeable" IMO

JKiddtoVC · Post #11 » by **JKiddtoVC** » Tue May 13, 2014 5:26 pm

I spent $95 on a ticket to game 6 against Toronto to go with a bunch of friends and we were in row 15 of section 226. That's really expensive for really crappy seats, but spent it just for the atmosphere and to be at Barclays. I can completely understand why many people do not want to spend all that money for crappy seats when they could enjoy the game just as much sitting on their couch with a 10x better view.

But as far as the crowd, it was electric during game six. Really loud and just an awesome environment to be in for that game. Sounded great in games 3 and 4 of this series as well.

Paradise · Post #12 » by **Paradise** » Tue May 13, 2014 6:18 pm

Prokorov wrote:
Shanman wrote:The Nets are not in New Jersey. It's 2014, they're in Brooklyn... New York City's most populated borough, where basketball fans are rabid and I would imagine happy to see a winner in the city with the Knicks slumping.

I'm not trolling, just curious to see what the boards make of the obviously lukewarm playoff atmosphere in Brooklyn. No need to be hostile.

brooklyn is irrelevant because the basketball fans who live there are 99% knick fans.

More like 70%. If I remember correctly, 30% of Barclay's attendance comes from Brooklynites and 10% from NJ.

WhateverBro · Post #13 » by **WhateverBro** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:55 pm

Well, from someone who usually follows the Celtics, the crowd is horrible but I don't expect it to be rocking like TD Garden anyway. The chant is pretty cool but it can be awfully quiet at times.

Lamak · Post #14 » by **Lamak** » Wed May 14, 2014 12:52 am

It usually seems pretty terrible compared to the other playoff fan bases. I swear crowd was louder overall year 1, maybe because ticket prices were lower then before the KG+Pierce trade.

bobbyc · Post #15 » by **bobbyc** » Wed May 14, 2014 3:38 am

You can't tell how loud a crowd is on TV. You have to be there.

Our crowd isn't crazy, but it gets loud.

MrDollarBills · Post #16 » by **MrDollarBills** » Wed May 14, 2014 1:40 pm

bobbyc wrote:You can't tell how loud a crowd is on TV. You have to be there.

Our crowd isn't crazy, but it gets loud.

Yeah, they were quite loud, especially when Lebron was scoring points on us.

SpeedyG · Post #17 » by **SpeedyG** » Wed May 14, 2014 4:51 pm

MrDollarBills wrote:
bobbyc wrote:You can't tell how loud a crowd is on TV. You have to be there.

Our crowd isn't crazy, but it gets loud.

Yeah, they were quite loud, especially when Lebron was scoring points on us.

It is always louder when you are at the games. Watching it on TV though, the Nets crowd is a lot quieter than other playoff teams. I'd say that the Kidd-led Nets Finals team got better crowd noise (despite the smaller numbers) than the ones in Brooklyn.

One Love · Post #18 » by **One Love** » Sat May 24, 2014 2:52 pm

Respectable first year...

One Love · Post #19 » by **One Love** » Sat May 24, 2014 2:53 pm

Respectable first year...

R-DAWG · Post #20 » by **R-DAWG** » Mon May 26, 2014 4:13 pm

Here's the reality of New York sports - it's all corporate. Real fans can't afford to go to the games. And people who can afford to go to the games can't get out of work in time to make a 7pm playoff tip.