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Nets Hope Lopez and Yi Can Take Advantage of Shaq-Less Cavs
With Shaq out, expect Brook Lopez and Yi Jianlian to get more touches Wednesday. Net coaches have been working with Yi on getting position and finishing. Kiki Vandeweghe admits Yi is a work in progress but praised his aggressiveness. You don't get 12 offensive boards--the most by a Net since...
Gauging the Future - Two Views
ESPN and the stats-heavy Basketball Prospectus have two different views of the Nets future. In its "Future Power Rankings", ESPN puts the Nets at #18, a drop of one place since November despite the imminent approval of Mikhail Prokhorov and successes in Brooklyn. BP, on the other hand, goes...
Nets Climb to #29 in NBC Power Poll!
They're still #30 in most power rankings, but NBC Sports' Kurt Helin has given the Nets a "reprieve", dropping Minnesota into the cellar. He cites the Nets' weekend win in Boston. John Schuhmann of NBA.com says while the Celts got the criticism, "the Nets...
Déjà Vu For Nets as Wizards Win at the Wire Again
A month after Earl Boykins kept the Nets from getting their second straight win with a last-second jumper at the Izod Center, Randy Foye did the same with a pair of jumpers in the final minute on Sunday night. The Nets led by as many as 14 in both the first and...
Game 57 - Nets vs. Trail Blazers - Tuesday, February 23, 7:30
After playing the Thunder, Grizzlies and Blazers recently, the Nets should have a good idea of one model in the rebuilding catalog: go young. The Blazers are among the NBA's youngest teams but they're winning...in spite of the loss of their best player,...
Feed the Beast, aka Brook
There was much finger-pointing Monday over why Brook Lopez's touches dropped dramatically as the game went on...and the Nets lost. Devin Harris said he was partially to blame. Keyon Dooling said Lopez must demand the ball. Kiki Vandeweghe thinks...
Game 56 - Nets vs. Grizzlies - Sunday, February 21, 6:00
A week ago, Brook Lopez and Marc Gasol manned the post for the sophs vs. the rooks in Dallas. Sunday, they'll be working against each other. The Nets and Grizzlies are the NBA's two most surprising teams, for vastly different reasons. They're also the two...
Harris OK as Kiki Defends Yi
Devin Harris sprained his knee Friday and didn't practice Saturday, but he'll play on Sunday, calling the injury minor. Meanwhile, Yi Jianlian (shoulder and back) got another vote of confidence from his coach. "Ever since two or three weeks ago when he hurt his...
Is The Yi Experiment Over?
Yi Jianlian looked good on return from his knee injury last month. But he has once again regressed, looking somewhere between awkward and awful. Now the Nets think he may need a rest. He's been playing with both a bad right shoulder and back. In 19 games...
First Quarter Defense Does In Nets
It was one of those 36-minutes-is-not-enough nights at the Izod Center Friday night, as the Nets were unable to recover from a first-quarter onslaught by the Raptors. Playing without Chris Bosh, Toronto scored 32 points on 14-23 shooting in the opening 12...
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