Nets Ebay/Youtube Of The Night
Jul 23, 2009 Nets Ebay/Youtube Of The Night
The NBA offseason is long, specially when your team isn’t really doing anything. I can only talk about staying put, maybe signing PFs, and 2010 so many times, so to spice things up around here I will be posting funny/strange Nets-related Ebay items and Youtube videos.
eBay Item Of The Night: 200 1990 Star DERRICK COLEMAN Promos
As the seller puts it:
Here we are offering a lot of 200 STAR Derrick Coleman PROMOS. For being almost 20 years old, there couldnt be many of these promos left. These are great for collectors or dealers.
This can be yours for $4.99…oh and 7 bucks shipping and handling.
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Youtube of the Night: NJ Nets London Trivia
Sean Williams is great. ”The Prime Minister lives on Big Time street,” good stuff.
AROUND THE INTER-NETS:Nets In NBA Hell, But For One Year Only
Jul 23, 2009 2009 Offseason, 2009-2010 Regular Season, 2010 Offseason, Links, Nets In The Media
Basketball Fiend is a solid NBA blog, and I read it daily. So when I saw this post today, I knew that I had to link to it at some point. I also find it funny that it came during the same day my post came out. Here is a little info on Basketball Fiend’s Basketball Hell:
The concept of NBA Hell is something that I came up with last season, watching teams like the Knicks and the Sonics (now Thunder) slowly and painfully torture their fans like the intro to Wu Tang’s Method Man.
NBA Hell is basically the professional basketball version of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, a guided tour through the nine circles of hell, each circle a little bit worse than the one before it.
The article was popular last year and I enjoyed writing it, so I figured why not bring it back?
Since this is the second edition, I tried to refine the concept as best I could, using more statistics (such as winning percentage, blowout losses – which I define as losses by more than 15 points, scoring margin, and average attendance) as well as other, more subjective factors (like ownership and the ability to win in the future) to pare the league down to the nine most unbearable teams in the league.
On to some of the stuff he said about the Nets. Again the full thing is here:
The way I see it, 2009-10 is going to be a torturous season for the Nets.
After trading away its best offensive player (Vince Carter), failing to address a need at power forward, and adding Rafer Alston, one of the least-coachable players in the league, the Nets are going to have a hard time competing in 2009-10. It’s difficult to imagine them winning more than 25 games next year.
After that, things will look up.
The Nets may have traded away an offensive centerpiece in Carter, but the trade also freed up $30-35 million in cap room for the 2010 offseason.
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All four of those guys are talented players with definitive skills. Harris and Lopez run a wicked high pick-and-roll, Lee is a talented outside shooter who can play solid D, and Williams is a defensive-minded athlete with the kind of physical skills coaches dream of.
I completely agree with this whole section, but I think if everything comes together correctly, the Nets can take 30-35 games this year. In my opinion it all depends on Terrence Williams and CDR. If they can contribute positively, I think we can avoid the flames of hell.
State of The Nets: We Need To Stay Put
Jul 23, 2009 2009 Offseason, 2010 Offseason, Brook Lopez, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Courtney Lee, Devin Harris, Rod Thorn, State Of The Nets, Terrence Williams, Vince Carter
Every once in a while, I will take a look at the Nets organization and give you my opinions on where we are and what I think we should do. This is called State of The Nets.
I know coming in that this isn’t going to be a popular post. Reading the comments here, in forums, and on other Nets blogs I get the feeling that most Nets fans aren’t happy with the direction we are taking. I disagree with these fans’ feelings.
Aging middle of the road teams have a tough decision to make. Do you stay put, happy with making the playoffs as a bottom seed every year? Do you try to add the missing piece and make a run? Or do you get younger, retool, and overhaul your roster? For years after making our back-to-back NBA finals run, we kept trying to add the missing piece to our big three, while not really concentrating on the draft. The New Jersey Nets kept making the playoffs, but they never added that ONE player that put them over the top.