Prokhorov looking to sell majority share

[bws94]

I see one bad loss brings the Lin trolls back out in full force. Hopefully we win tonight so you go back into your holes.

I'll try to limit my posts only after Nets wins where DLO plays 25+ minutes and scores a lot of points so you can feel better about it.

you should limit your posts to when Lin plays again. which is hopefully never again in a nets uniform

I'm sorry Prok, but that's ridiculous. That's a terrible overreaction to a handful of trolls and I can't agree with you or MDB, as much as I like and respect both of you posters, to take that stand. Lin as a player is an asset to the team and I hope he stays with the organization long-term. As for GDLA, I hope he doesn't post here again. He's a Lin fan and he's a handful even in Lin forums. But this thread is devolving and I think the mods may look to lock this thread if it continues in this direction. All because of a really small amount of undesirable posters.

[bws94]

yeah, you conveniently waited til after a bad loss to post your tripe and smear Russell. Lin's done for the season, so kick rocks troll.

After the looks of that Denver loss, I may have to wait a while till my next substantive post.

Actually, Orlando was also a bad loss. A loss is a loss. I thought DLO threw that game away by playing by himself and then ridiculously blamed Booker when he turned the ball over at the end when he broke the offense and got stuck.

Watching DLO play on this team is like fitting that square peg in the round hole. Either KA bends his offense or DLO bends his style of play.

Right now, KA is coaching himself to a corner. He'll get himself fired if DLO checks out on him. KA should be careful and tread lightly.

Kenny should do what he is doing.

you should go to the Lin thread where trolling and being delusional is accepted

He's in the Lin thread. And it is fellow Lin fans that are dealing with him there. I know the mods have said praise Lin there, at least at one time they did. But why the hell is this turning into another Lin thing? He's a good guy rehabbing off of a heartbreaking injury and negativity surrounds him because of fans? That's crazy.

[bws94]

I hope the first ethnically Asian majority owner (by 2021) is no fool like most owners in the NBA and demonstrates himself to be more capable like Joe Jacob. I recall the hate Lacob use to get his first 2 years promising fans he had vision and knew what he was doing. Nobody believed him till the Warriors became the Warriors we know today. It's interesting reading that Curry and him have some sort of imperfect relationship though.

Unfortunately as of now, Tsai has bought into a mediocre team with mediocre vision. Despite the otherwise brilliant moves, the single fatal mistake the team made this summer was deciding to start DLO and hand him the ball as "THE GUY" the moment he was signed. He should have been brought off the bench labeled as the potential future of the franchise once Crabbe was signed. This team should have started Lin and Crabbe at the 1 and 2 with DLo off the bench to learn a dose of humility and understand he is the possible future but that he has to earn it while improving his game.

The Nets are currently doing what typically average teams do and have given DLO the ball while he ineffectively continues to run the offense and be selfish with the ball and reluctant with the pass (excluding Carroll who is the only player DLO singles out and intentionally passes to game after game and vice versa - totally disgusting to see btw. But the kid won't pass to Crabbe it's ridiculous).

The problem here is that DLO is not some elite scoring machine or athletic force of nature worthy of giving such opportunities to. But Sean Mark has gone all in with this hand - his career reputation rises on this being successful just as Darryl Morey hitched his wagon to James Harden, an all NBA stats machine who will never win an NBA title as the #1 guy.

One can see Dinwiddie is a much better option to run this team if the goal is winning NOW. But we know it's not. This season is about helping DLO emerge as an NBA stats driven fake all-star so Marks gets kudos like Morey did. All NBA teams do this unfortunately. Mark's reputation rides on DLO appearing to be a success.

Prokhorov started his ownership stint as a typical short sighted owner trying to get washed up former all stars. Now he's been sold a lump of coal by Sean Marks that DLO is the savior.

The Nets will call the DLO-led losses, expected growing pains/necessary learning experiences as all NBA teams do to justify bad decisions to its fans.

With DLO at the helm, the Nets are headed in the direction of being mediocre but competitive for years like the Trailblazers, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz because Sean Marks and Kenny have made a bad decision to bring in DLO and start him and give him the keys already.

Talent misidentification is deadly in the NBA. DLO a mistake in my eyes. And i've watched him for 2 seasons prior in LA probably closer than Marks and KA did. My first time watching him was in the NCAA's and I thought he looked absolutely terrible.

Even if this team got K Leonard and Lamarcus Aldridge tomorrow from the Spurs, DLO is not going to change who he is and become a part of a fine tuned machine and start cutting off ball and passing crisply once Kenny decides someone like K Leonard will play Point Forward. DLO will continue in his ways. It's hard to break those traits.

I hope Tsai knows what he's doing and won't allow this team to be the typical NBA watered-down product.

Lin is a career bench player/6th/7th man type and Dlo is 21 years old and #2 pick. Easy to see why Dlo has been giving the "keys" for this season at least. Dlo has had some bad games but also some impressive ones... not sure what some were expecting.. he isn't a Jkidd type guard at all. He tweaked his knee during the ORL game and hasn't been the same since. Not sure if Physical or mental but not the same.

Sucks that we have to deal with Lin trolls. I guess Lakers/Rockets/Hornets fans warned us with good reason.

Actually I don't agree with that. There are star players, like DLo likely will turn out to be, and there are impact players, like Lin is. Lin is a flexible player, you can start him, you can play him off the bench as a 6th man, you can use him as an attacker to score and facilitator and he has good D, so he's a very valuable player. It takes a good combo of star players and impact players to win it all. And let's not pretend like it didn't make a huge difference with the Nets with Lin out last season and when he came back.

So, I welcome the potential star player, but I'm not going to discount the impact player, one of the better ones in the league as a "career bench player." That's not the case and not fair to Lin. He's started as many games as he's played off the bench and would have started more if he'd stayed healthy last year and this season. That's not a correct characterization.

[bws94]

GDLA, why are you here? You're obviously not a Net fan and it's obvious you aren't going over well. Cool the jets. Think of not posting for awhile, assess how things are done here, then maybe you can positively contribute. Now, you're just pissing people off.

[MrDollarBills]

After the looks of that Denver loss, I may have to wait a while till my next substantive post.

Actually, Orlando was also a bad loss. A loss is a loss. I thought DLO threw that game away by playing by himself and then ridiculously blamed Booker when he turned the ball over at the end when he broke the offense and got stuck.

Watching DLO play on this team is like fitting that square peg in the round hole. Either KA bends his offense or DLO bends his style of play.

Right now, KA is coaching himself to a corner. He'll get himself fired if DLO checks out on him. KA should be careful and tread lightly.

Kenny should do what he is doing.

you should go to the Lin thread where trolling and being delusional is accepted

He's in the Lin thread. And it is fellow Lin fans that are dealing with him there. I know the mods have said praise Lin there, at least at one time they did. But why the hell is this turning into another Lin thing? He's a good guy rehabbing off of a heartbreaking injury and negativity surrounds him because of fans? That's crazy.

That's the problem with stinking trolls like GoodDayLa. The come on here to cause discord, and the end result sours fans of the team on Lin/Lin's fanbase and it leads to comments being said out of anger about Lin due to the crap from trolls. I'm guilty of it because I said something about Lin not being able to stay on the court and hoping that Lin doesn't opt in when in reality I like Lin a lot.

[kamaze]

You guys are ganging up and bullying him for having a different opinion than yours. If you don't like what he's saying don't reply to it calling to lock the thread is weak.

[MrDollarBills]

You guys are ganging up and bullying him for having a different opinion than yours. If you don't like what he's saying don't reply to it calling to lock the thread is weak.

he came on here directly after a bad loss and used it as an opportunity to not only trash D'Angelo Russell, but also the team, the GM, and the owner. He also blatantly lied multiple times about Russell in his despicable rant. That was a text book troll post, one of many he has made since Jeremy Lin joined this team last year.

You only call us bullies because you co signed his post.

This fanbase has been beaten down and trolled for the last several years. Now that the Nets are trying to get themselves on a better path....maybe some of us Net fans don't want to deal with a bunch of crap and trolling from people who don't care about this team.

I'm over it. I wish Jeremy Lin the best, but I hope he opts out or retires.

[kamaze]

You guys are ganging up and bullying him for having a different opinion than yours. If you don't like what he's saying don't reply to it calling to lock the thread is weak.

he came on here directly after a bad loss and used it as an opportunity to not only trash D'Angelo Russell, but also the team, the GM, and the owner. He also blatantly lied multiple times about Russell in his despicable rant. That was a text book troll post, one of many he has made since Jeremy Lin joined this team last year.

This fanbase has been beaten down and trolled for the last several years. Now that the Nets are trying to get themselves on a better path....maybe some of us Net fans don't want to deal with a bunch of crap and trolling from people who don't care about this team.

I'm over it. I wish Jeremy Lin the best, but I hope he opts out or retires.

You agree that DLO played bad no? If so the 3 of us have something in common. I can understand you not liking the LIn fanitics (the VC fan boys annoyed me years ago) but the only way to shut up haters is for DLO to bring it.
The coach called a timeout and yelled at D'Angelo for not playing defense; I assume bc it was right after he got blown by; so the venom he's receiving is just.
He's a ball stopper in a motion offense, THAT and the turnovers is what makes me so frustrated.

The lack of criticism seems strange to me that's part of the fun to me but to each his own.

You only call us bullies because you co signed his post.

I agree DLo's not a pure point guard if that's what you're talking about.

[MrDollarBills]

I was critical of Russell in real time as the game unfolded, go back and read the game thread. I called for him to be benched after a certain point because his head clearly was elsewhere. You called him garbage......but I think that your angry remark out of frustration is better than the outright lies that were said during that troll's rant.

I disagree 100% with the notion that he is a ball stopper. The turnovers need to be cleaned up. Mental lapses off the ball on D need to be cleaned up. But outside of the last game, I don't see him out there stopping the ball, he looks to create shots for guys and i think he's struggling to find the right balance between scorer/facilitator. The game where he had 1 assist was not because he was out there chucking it, dudes were missing clean looks. I think there needs to be some legitimate patience for this guy and room for growth...no different than what has been given to RHJ, LeVert, Whitehead, etc.

[GoodDayLa]

I'll try to limit my posts only after Nets wins where DLO plays 25+ minutes and scores a lot of points so you can feel better about it.

you should limit your posts to when Lin plays again. which is hopefully never again in a nets uniform

I'm sorry Prok, but that's ridiculous. That's a terrible overreaction to a handful of trolls and I can't agree with you or MDB, as much as I like and respect both of you posters, to take that stand. Lin as a player is an asset to the team and I hope he stays with the organization long-term. As for GDLA, I hope he doesn't post here again. He's a Lin fan and he's a handful even in Lin forums. But this thread is devolving and I think the mods may look to lock this thread if it continues in this direction. All because of a really small amount of undesirable posters.

Actually it depends on what site in terms of what you call me.

Here, I am called a Lin fan or Lin loving troll.

On Lin fan sites, I have been labeled a Lin hating troll and banned from one popular Jeremy Lin fan forum for life accused of hating on Lin in a heinous way.

It's quite funny.

I just keep it real and write what I really think about basketball and teams. I don't sugar coat either way.

It's hilarious the crowd here thinks I'm a Lin fan yet on Lin fan sites, I get banned.

People just don't like to keep it real.

Millennials....so soft.

[GoodDayLa]

GDLA, why are you here? You're obviously not a Net fan and it's obvious you aren't going over well. Cool the jets. Think of not posting for awhile, assess how things are done here, then maybe you can positively contribute. Now, you're just pissing people off.

I'm a fan of basketball. I watch most of the NBA.

I wrote in the Clippers thread the other day the Warriors killed them and are at another level and the Clippers are no where close.

No Clipper fans killed me for it.

I wrote Luke Walton is doing a horrible job this season in the Laker forums.

No Laker fans killed me for it.

But here? It's strange here.

There's a lot of hate for Jeremy Lin. I was writing about my hopes for Joe Tsai being a good owner and some posters here made it all about Jeremy Lin out of nowhere.

I posted in the Lakers world Kuzma needs to start over Randle and Nance and it's a damn shame.

No Lakers accused me of Kumza trolling.

What gives?

Makes you think....

I'm not pissing anyone off. The truth is pissing them off. What i say resonates because it's not entirely untrue.

The truth hurts.

Just as when I write about Jlin stinking in certain games or looking totally out of sorts or Lin not training himself properly so he can play 82 games for the Nets and get bashed by Lin fans with blinders on.

[GoodDayLa]

I see one bad loss brings the Lin trolls back out in full force. Hopefully we win tonight so you go back into your holes.

I'll try to limit my posts only after Nets wins where DLO plays 25+ minutes and scores a lot of points so you can feel better about it.

you should limit your posts to when Lin plays again. which is hopefully never again in a nets uniform

Unfortunately as we both know, Lin will opt in to get that 12 million even if he can't walk. So he's in Brooklyn at least another year. Unless he is going to take HGH and banned substances & double his body strength, I think very possible he'll struggle in his return. And if he does struggle, hopefully he retires from the NBA and focuses on more productive things.

What might be really painful for some Lin-hating Nets fans is after 2021, Tsai puts Lin into the front office and Lin becomes the face of management in another 10 years from now.

[Paradise]

This dude is a legit Lin fanboy with a lot of money.

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Key notes:

- Called the sale a ‘long term project’
- Lin and LeVert are guys he likes. Lin in particular, of course.

- Walton’s reaction when Tsai says Lin has been on the Nets for a year.