Tall Order For Carter

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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">November 22, 2006 -- SEATTLE - Cliff Robinson was in street clothes with a sprained knee. Nenad Krstic was in deep foul trouble. So Vince Carter, at 6-foot-6, said he asked to guard the likes of 6-10 Rashard Lewis and 6-9 Nick Collison in the fourth quarter.

Didn't quite go as planned.

Lewis had 10 points, Collison had four and three rebounds and the length and bulk they used on Carter may have affected him the other way. Carter was awful, going 0-of-5 with two costly turnovers in the fourth quarter of Monday's 99-87 loss to the Sonics. But he said the defensive alignment had nothing to do with his struggle.

"It's never an excuse. I just didn't play well. When we went small, I asked to guard Collison. I took it as a challenge to try to keep him off the boards," Carter said yesterday. "And then with Rashard, I asked to let me guard him. I take it as a challenge. He has inches on me, but I don't want to make it an easy shot for him. I want to make it tough for him."

Coach Lawrence Frank yesterday said having Carter, who scored 17 of his 27 points in the first quarter, on Lewis was the way to go.

"We were playing smaller and we had foul trouble with [Krstic] with five," Frank said. "Still, the best matchup on Lewis is Richard [Jefferson] or Vince. That's probably our best matchup. Lewis is a three. They guard them."</div>

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He really needs to step his game up if we wan't to win.

 

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Kidd: It's Gut-check Time

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">November 22, 2006 -- SEATTLE - Jason Kidd has seen this before. And it always gets to him. He has seen the maddening inconsistency of the Nets - not just from game to game, but from half to half. The Nets in their first 10 games have squandered huge leads, given away command.

Sometimes they recover, sometimes they don't. Hey, that's why they're 5-5.

And after it happened again Monday, when the Nets capsized in the fourth quarter, Kidd uncharacteristically exited without comment to the media, a rare happening. He's concerned that last season's 9-12 start is unfolding again.

"I was [ticked]," said Kidd here where the Nets stayed to practice. "I just felt if we're going to continue to waste the effort, maybe we need to re-tool or recalculate what we're trying to achieve. I'm not saying nobody's [not] giving effort. I'm saying we have to become smarter." </div>

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He was playing well in the first quarter, but then just got shot down especially in the 4th quarter. That can't happen. The Nets offense is played through Carter, so he needs make things happen. If he can't then we will run it through Kidd. Plain and simple.