OT: Why is this board so dead?

[bballfreak524]

We have like three active threads! Whats the deal!

 

[mike18946]

Don't take this the wrong way but

You have no fans

Currently ranked 26th in overall attendance, for a team that has made the finals the last two seasons that really is a disgrace.

With that said, ways to get this forum going is to post articles, game previews and recaps but It's not exactly easy to get people to reply consistantly.

 

[InNETSweTrust]

What do you mean inactive? Me and Henacy talk in here all the time. Hahahhaha.

Let's face it man, there are very few fans of the Nets. I sure hope you can help us so there would be three of us. LOL. Oh and help us recruit more Nets fans.

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[Henacy]

Yeah its mostly just me & innetswetrust. And hopefully you. I did a few previews in the past & so did InNetsWeTrust, but no one really ever replied or talked about the games. Maybe with the playoffs coming up there will be alot more to talk about.

 

[bballfreak524]

Ill try my best to keep this board active! I also post on another Nets message board. Ill try to get some of those posters to post over here!

 

[throwback]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting AllNet:</div><div class="quote_post">Don't take this the wrong way but

You have no fans

Currently ranked 26th in overall attendance, for a team that has made the finals the last two seasons that really is a disgrace.
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dont this personal, but you really dont have a right to say that. if your not a nets fan and don't know the history, then your in no position to say that. yea i know everyone busts us for going to the finals two years and no one shows, but its not that people don't wana go, its just that we have to regain a fanbase.

so im going to basically do a little summary for ya. the nets have bascially been the laughing stock of the league for a long time. yes we had some ok years with coleman and cassell, but we havent gone anywhere in the playoffs. because of the bad years, people in new jersey became mostly knicks fans and bulls fans, and even some philly fans. when i was growing up i saw A LOT of kids in school, in malls and my classmates wearing new york knicks shirts and bulls shirts b/c of jordan. so now we are winning and those kids are now grown up and still knick fans and philly fans, so we have to rebuild our fans. you see more and more little children and teenagers with jkidd jerseys and nets shirts. if we were in an area where there was not other teams around like how close new york and philly are, then we would have more fans, but we dont. people like to be apart of the knicks history and go to the garden. we don't have a history like that and we definitly don't have a nice arena. our arena is crap and when you go there it makes you feel like you are far away from the action where it would be better to watch it on tv at home. if we got a new arena, we would have more ppl attend games on a regular basis. now there is the moving to brooklyn situation which is starting to alienate ppl in nj. some will continue to follow the team to bklyn, others will not ( im undecided). iknow the deal isn't final and ratner is having money problems so we shall see. plus the price of tix should be change, that would be nice. but just saying we are a disgrace as fans isn't right. if we are this good 10yrs from now and we still have this kind of attendence, then i can totally agree with that statement, but now i dont. so don't take it personal, thats to everyone who likes to bust on nets fans.

 

[mike18946]

What you just described are bandwagoners, Nets fans that were Knicks fans that have come back? eh in that case the NBA should just join the Nets and Knicks up and get rid of the NJ franchise.

New Jersey isn't a dump so I don't see how it puts off fans from watching their games. The arena is tough to get to? so are many places, prices are high? so are many other places around the NBA.

I don't really need any summary about the Nets , I know enough about each franchise to state an opinion of them. If Nets can't get great crowds now I doubt it will ever improve that much. Moving to Brooklyn might help but not too much

It could be the same situation as the Hornets they mainly moved so they could draw more fans, It has infact got worse since the move from Charlotte.

I wasn't actually saying current Nets fans are a disgrace, but the fact the people of NJ don't go out and support their team better. The numbers don't look good and even then I bet alot of fans that go are former or current Knicks fans anyway

 

[throwback]

for one, i didnt say the ppl who lived in nj who are knicks fans ever became nets fans, therefore they are not bangwagoners. second of all, you saying to get rid of the nets makes me feel like you took my reply personally and seemed like a statement directed towards me. i didnt reply to piss anyone off or attack anyone, so if ya feeled that way then i'm sorry. its just that you posted in a nets forum and i responded as a nets fan as what i believe and to defend my guys.

you dont understand about ppl in nj who dont support the nets. not everyone in nj is a nets fan, thats the thing. i bet half of jersey are knick fans. you can take the subway to the garden and in some places its easier to get to msg than caa. caa isnt the easiest places to get too, but it isnt that difficult either. i can get there in like 20min, but if your not close it could be a hassle. a subway to the stadium would be nice, but i hear(just rumors) there are plans to build around caa an entertainment center, golf course, new hotels and a residential area where then they might put a subway. but with the possible move to bklyn and the devils goin to newark in a few yrs if hockey is still around, it seems to be a waste.

 

[mike18946]

<div class="quote_poster">Quoting throwback:</div><div class="quote_post">you saying to get rid of the nets makes me feel like you took my reply personally and seemed like a statement directed towards me. i didnt reply to piss anyone off or attack anyone, so if ya feeled that way then i'm sorry. its just that you posted in a nets forum and i responded as a nets fan as what i believe and to defend my guys.
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No not at all, once you have been here for a while you will find out I use alot of sarasism in my posts so I wouldn't take my comment seriously. I don't get offended on the internet so you don't need to worry about that. I think I mis-understood what you were trying to say at the start of your post so the "getting rid of the nets and joining up with the Knicks" may seem as an insult but that wasn't my intention.

You gave a reasonable post on why there is lack of Nets fans at games, I was basically replying to it.

 

[throwback]

i think i made a new friend

yea im new here so im not jumping to conclusions about people.

like they say on around the horn...NEXT TOPIC!

 

[InNETSweTrust]

Don't worry about Allnet, he's one of the guys who regularly post here in the Nets thread.

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Ill try my best to keep this board active! I also post on another Nets message board. Ill try to get some of those posters to post over here!</div>

Feel free to do so.