World's Apart
Well, that was some dismantling we witnessed last night...
Unfortunately, it's not exactly confidence-building that the young Blazers came in and ran circles around the (again) hopelessly lethargic Nets. Face it, Netsfans, the Nets weren't even in the same building for much of the night. Certainly not the same zip code. Maybe not even the same planet.
Two things killed the Nets - offense and defense. Can't get much simpler than that.
On offense, the shooting was absolutely atrocious. The Nets never did figure out the Blazer zone, and didn't fare much better when it was man to man. Attack the damned thing, for crying out loud!
On defense, well, it was about the same level that we saw earlier this season when the Nets couldn't seem to get to the open man and were picked apart, on the perimeter primarily (the Blazers had 9 threes) but really anywhere they wanted. The Nets looked old, slow and confused - not three words you want used with your defense.
There was no individual performance for the Nets worthy of mention. The first quarter pretty much told the tale, with the Nets failing to match the Blazers energy (and this was a team on a road trip that played a double OT game the evening before, while the Nets were off since Friday) and it very quickly unwound in the second half of the first quarter, with the starters still on the floor.
Oh, a bad, bad omen heading into the long West Coast trip.
We'll get a game review up today, but really after this one I'm in no particular rush to do so.
Joe
Unfortunately, it's not exactly confidence-building that the young Blazers came in and ran circles around the (again) hopelessly lethargic Nets. Face it, Netsfans, the Nets weren't even in the same building for much of the night. Certainly not the same zip code. Maybe not even the same planet.
Two things killed the Nets - offense and defense. Can't get much simpler than that.
On offense, the shooting was absolutely atrocious. The Nets never did figure out the Blazer zone, and didn't fare much better when it was man to man. Attack the damned thing, for crying out loud!
On defense, well, it was about the same level that we saw earlier this season when the Nets couldn't seem to get to the open man and were picked apart, on the perimeter primarily (the Blazers had 9 threes) but really anywhere they wanted. The Nets looked old, slow and confused - not three words you want used with your defense.
There was no individual performance for the Nets worthy of mention. The first quarter pretty much told the tale, with the Nets failing to match the Blazers energy (and this was a team on a road trip that played a double OT game the evening before, while the Nets were off since Friday) and it very quickly unwound in the second half of the first quarter, with the starters still on the floor.
Oh, a bad, bad omen heading into the long West Coast trip.
We'll get a game review up today, but really after this one I'm in no particular rush to do so.
Joe
posted by Joe Netsfan at 6:22 AM
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