The Olympic Roundup
OK, Netsfans, now it gets interesting as the Olympic basketball tournament gets to the medal round. Does anyone really expect the Redeem Team to lose to anyone?
The only real interest of note around these parts is the play of Nets newbie Yi Jianlian. In a word, it's been mediocre at best, and at times pathetic. He's young, it's a ton of pressure, and he's been playing basketball for Team China, so you could understand his almost complete lack of grace in the tourney. But what does this mean for the Nets?
Probably not a helluva lot. Unless you are one of those few who think that Yi will light up the NBA (and the Izod, or whatever it's called this year), what difference will it make if he struggles in the Olympics? We'd like to think this experience will make him a better player, and it may yet, it's just not going to translate to much in the Nets' 2008 - 2009 season.
Hopefully, you can accept that.
We get an entire season to see if this ploy works out, this salary dump to rid themselves of Richard Jefferson and invest in a younger, taller, much more Asian forward who can sell tickets and hold cap space for 2010. Sure, the Nets are hoping the Asian population buys every ticket in the arena so they can focus on moving to Brooklyn without having to declare bankruptcy, so what else matters?
The play on the court, that's what.
Like the Olympics, there's going to a lot of USA - Angola type matchups, I'm afraid. Vince Carter jacking 25 shots a night, Devin Harris driving and dishing (to whom, we wonder), and frankly, anything else they can scrape together. Keyon Dooling and Bobby Simmons will each have to score 15 points a game at this rate.
But at least the vaunted rookies should hopefully get some seasoning.
Sit back, relax, enjoy the Olympics and the expected domination by LeBron, Kobe, JKidd and co. It's the last look you're likely to get at a championship calibre team until 2010.
-Joe
The only real interest of note around these parts is the play of Nets newbie Yi Jianlian. In a word, it's been mediocre at best, and at times pathetic. He's young, it's a ton of pressure, and he's been playing basketball for Team China, so you could understand his almost complete lack of grace in the tourney. But what does this mean for the Nets?
Probably not a helluva lot. Unless you are one of those few who think that Yi will light up the NBA (and the Izod, or whatever it's called this year), what difference will it make if he struggles in the Olympics? We'd like to think this experience will make him a better player, and it may yet, it's just not going to translate to much in the Nets' 2008 - 2009 season.
Hopefully, you can accept that.
We get an entire season to see if this ploy works out, this salary dump to rid themselves of Richard Jefferson and invest in a younger, taller, much more Asian forward who can sell tickets and hold cap space for 2010. Sure, the Nets are hoping the Asian population buys every ticket in the arena so they can focus on moving to Brooklyn without having to declare bankruptcy, so what else matters?
The play on the court, that's what.
Like the Olympics, there's going to a lot of USA - Angola type matchups, I'm afraid. Vince Carter jacking 25 shots a night, Devin Harris driving and dishing (to whom, we wonder), and frankly, anything else they can scrape together. Keyon Dooling and Bobby Simmons will each have to score 15 points a game at this rate.
But at least the vaunted rookies should hopefully get some seasoning.
Sit back, relax, enjoy the Olympics and the expected domination by LeBron, Kobe, JKidd and co. It's the last look you're likely to get at a championship calibre team until 2010.
-Joe
posted by Joe Netsfan at 9:41 PM
4 Comments:
You always make a great post Joe. Great work on this.
Good stuff, Feel free to check out mine, addictedtohoops.blogspot.com
I'm not really sure why the last 2 comments about this post is something positive.
It always seems to me Joe Netsfan posts blogs of something that most of us fans already know.
I mean, Joe Netsfan..your posts are mediocre/ pathetic at best every time. So give Yi a break, he played with some bad point guards who only know how to pass the ball to Yao.
Give it a rest on your blogs man...you haven't written anything good and thanks for stating the obvious all the time. It makes other writers feel better about themselves.
Geez, I'm sorry man, I don't mean to be so harsh on you but your posts are just so bad. I mean with the attention your blogs are getting on netsdaily.com I would think that you pay monthly fees to that website for your site to be advertised as much right now.
alright, to make things more clear to you. RJ was getting paid all star dollars for his play. And the Nets got back 2 solid players and 1 very intriguing prospect. The Nets weren't going to win more games with RJ next season, how much better do you think the Nets will be with RJ?
I mean, RJ is a good player, but he isn't going to give you 10 extra wins during the regular season.
Geeze Peter, thanks for explaining it all to me...Don't apologize for being so harsh, just tell me what you want me to say that not so boring to you. Seems you want me to tell you 100 reasons why the Nets will be great with Yi.
Don't see it.
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