Last six games...RJ and VC

[SportsTicker]

Jefferson is averaging 27.8 ppg.</p>

Carter is averaging 24.6 ppg.</p>

I don't recall a better INDIVIDUAL run by these two guys over a significant stretch of games...and yet.</p>

Boki is down, Williams is down, Kidd has been inconsistent. Collins has done nothing and Allen's bad ball handling obscure whatever contribution he is making. Of course we are only talking offense here.</p>

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[Jizzy]

basically, we aren;t getting any contribtuion from anyone outside of RJ and VC. what a surprise, literally, so much for the Boki hype.</p>

 

[SportsTicker]

did you read the above post? Apparently not.</p>

 

[Jizzy]

i did. you were pointing out the lack of offensive production from Kidd, Boki, Malik etc.. unless "being down" means something else. maybe they all have migraines?</p>

 

[J.S]

I can relate, I get migranes just from watching these games.

 

[ly_yng]

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Jefferson is averaging 27.8 ppg.</p>

Carter is averaging 24.6 ppg.</p>

I don't recall a better INDIVIDUAL run by these two guys over a significant stretch of games...and yet.</p>

Boki is down, Williams is down, Kidd has been inconsistent. Collins has done nothing and Allen's bad ball handling obscure whatever contribution he is making. Of course we are only talking offense here.</p>

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You mean we lose Mikki, Nenad, House, Marcus and Boki's Mojo, and suddenly we can't score? I'm shocked.</p>

I think it really speaks to the fundamental problem of this team's construction - on offense, great players can make mediocre swingmen look good, but mediocre big men will always look like mediocre big men. Having stars at the 1-2-3 spots is just a waste of financial resources.</p>

Blow. It. Up.</p>

 

[Dumpy]

Blow it up, or get people who can make better decisions regarding the supplemental players? You don't need to spend a lot of money to get players who can contribute, you just have to stop throwing money at less-than-mediocre veterans in a succession of one-year deals.</p>

 

[ly_yng]

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Blow it up, or get people who can make better decisions regarding the supplemental players? You don't need to spend a lot of money to get players who can contribute, you just have to stop throwing money at less-than-mediocre veterans in a succession of one-year deals.</p>

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In the past 5 years, who were the available big men the Nets should have been going after? Maybe my memory is failing me, but over the past 5 years, aside from Darko, I can't think of a single free-agent big man who switched teams that I'd want on the Nets.</p>

I don't disagree that Thorn has played the free-agency game poorly, but I tend to think that there are deep structural issues with the team, beyond just managerial ones.</p>