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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"> CLEVELAND -- Through it all -- the injuries and the underachievement, the personal issues and the turmoil, the chemistry problems and the lousy luck -- the Nets always had one thing squirming in the back of their minds that told them it wasn't always going to be like this.
Just wait, they said. Wait until the Big Three is whole again.
Or at least until Richard Jefferson is healthy enough to help Jason Kidd and Vince Carter carry the freight.
"I think this team is coming together at the right time, honestly," Nets forward Boki Nachbar said Tuesday night, after the team won for the sixth time in eight games. "And it's all because of our leaders. You have Richard playing, being aggressive, and with his old explosion. Vince being his old self. Jason being the leader. Things are really looking good for us right now.
Jefferson, in particular, has been a revelation. Just four weeks after returning from ankle surgery, he had the good fortune to match up with some mediocre defenders in the last two games, and it resulted in a coming-out party. Though no one expects him to average 31 points for the rest of the season -- he scored 35 and 27 in those two games against Washington -- his renewed agility, combined with the return of his shooting stroke, has been the primary reason why the Nets suddenly have a different outlook about the impending postseason.
"If this is the real Richard ... it certainly makes our prospects much better, no doubt about it," team president Rod Thorn said yesterday. </div>
Source: Star Ledger
Just wait, they said. Wait until the Big Three is whole again.
Or at least until Richard Jefferson is healthy enough to help Jason Kidd and Vince Carter carry the freight.
"I think this team is coming together at the right time, honestly," Nets forward Boki Nachbar said Tuesday night, after the team won for the sixth time in eight games. "And it's all because of our leaders. You have Richard playing, being aggressive, and with his old explosion. Vince being his old self. Jason being the leader. Things are really looking good for us right now.
Jefferson, in particular, has been a revelation. Just four weeks after returning from ankle surgery, he had the good fortune to match up with some mediocre defenders in the last two games, and it resulted in a coming-out party. Though no one expects him to average 31 points for the rest of the season -- he scored 35 and 27 in those two games against Washington -- his renewed agility, combined with the return of his shooting stroke, has been the primary reason why the Nets suddenly have a different outlook about the impending postseason.
"If this is the real Richard ... it certainly makes our prospects much better, no doubt about it," team president Rod Thorn said yesterday. </div>
Source: Star Ledger
