Post Christmas observation...

Hope everybody had a good Christmas and are enjoying the gifts that came along with the season. I feel I must address this quickly, feeling that certain sense of nostalgia that comes with the season…

Boy are the Nets in trouble. One of my peoples was in town from NYC for the pre-Christmas weekend (yes, Amit, I’ll send you the rest of the pics…) and we were talking about his local squads…mostly the Nets. He proceeds to tell me the key to that team working…is Nenad ‘Can I Buy A Vowel’ Krstic. Regardless of how you feel about that sentiment, he does bring the sort of scoring to a much-beleaguered frontcourt that is entirely lacking with the rest of the team’s bigs. And who goes down not a day later? For the season. It’s difficult to talk about replacements or any other player adding options when your roster is absolutely bereft of anyone with any sort of trade value. Well, there is this one guy with some sort of market value …

Ah, Vincent Lamar Carter. How’s he doing over in the swamp, anywho? Clearly, up to his old tricks, again. Even the team president has gone on record saying he was hoping Vince’s fourth quarter production would increase (code for, please step up and save us…) Sadly, this is all coming with VC’s scoring average back north of 25 a game…

"We fly high, no lie, you know this...trade baaaiiit ?!!"

And if anybody really thinks last night’s Sheed bump was a foul…I mean, come on. Lil’ Lawrence Frank’s post-no-call-tantrum is surely an indication of the levels of desperation this franchise has succumbed to. Hell, even Kidd got into the act with the whole 'three blind mice' routine (I guess he can throw those rocks knowing the refs can't say nothing about his defense to the press...). Frustrated, anyone?
And notice I didn’t say post-Vince-miss tantrum. Until now. Do you think it bothered anybody with an interest in the Nets that son was fading away as usual on that shot…with nobody on him (check out Chauncey’s view of the play here)? At least the Nets don’t have to worry about any pre-game graduation ceremonies…

So when does this get better for the Nets, anyways? Granted, their schedule isn’t as bad as some of the other teams that occupy the worst division…ever…in the Lig. But they still got that five game swing out west at the end of January. If they don’t get some wins before that, the team that virtually everyone had running away with the division may be, for all intents and purposes, broken foor good…But hey, at least the Brooklyn move went through. And Jay, when you shout it out, make sure it sounds like how Jim Jones would do it...the kids seem to dig that.

"Come on Hov, do it for K. But in that fassy voice...you know...like when B's grabbing on your nuts..."

The time is coming where I may have to go off on my 'LeBron to Brooklyn conspiracy' rant, and Vince getting the boot to make room for Jay's favoured child is all part of the plan...you know, the whole 'chess not checkers' thing...

But that will be better served for another day. I’ma start putting up some end of the year lists…I’ll have the first one up a little later. Until then...enjoy the leftovers.