[外電] Time to stop the Vinsanity

[DAING (Miami Heat)]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/story/417905p-353003c.html



The Nets lost another tough one yesterday at home to the Heat, 102-92, and
that pretty much does it. They will travel down to Miami now, likely drop
their fourth straight game, say goodbye to the playoffs again.

But there is another game going on out here this spring for the Nets, the one
they will never admit exists. It is the contest between Richard Jefferson and
Vince Carter to decide who goes, who gets to stay in the Meadowlands when the
Big Trade is made. The Big Trade must be made. That is more obvious now even
than it was two weeks ago.

Somebody goes, finally putting an end to the stylistic chafing between
Jefferson and Carter. The defeat in Game 4 yesterday was another lucid
argument to retain Jefferson, to deal the flashier option. Carter, we all
know, is a breathtaking player, a valuable gate draw. But the Nets have come
to rely on him far too much, too often, and he is only too happy to enable
that dependence.

Once again yesterday, the wrong Carter showed up in the building. This wasn't
the Carter who beat the Pacers. This was the Carter who gets tangled in
bodies or bottled up by the remarkably quick Dwyane Wade, then forces jumpers
off Lawrence Frank's unimaginative isolations. It is the Carter who doesn't
quite make the right decisions when the opponent constructs a wall of
defenders to cut off his lanes.

"You have to take what they give you, be unselfish," said Carter, who fired
28 shots and made 12 of them. "I just wanted to be aggressive. If it's there,
it's there. Get to the paint, to the free throw line. Make them pay for
putting a line up there of three, four guys."

He didn't do what he said. And really, this playoff lesson from the Heat is
all for the best. The Nets, as constituted, are not a team that can win a
title. They require one major transaction this offseason, a package deal
sending two draft picks and Carter to get a different, taller star. You've
all heard one name by now, Kevin Garnett. There are others out there, too.

A cosmetic series victory over the Heat might have disguised that need,
confused the issue. Already, after the Nets knocked off the Pacers, Net
management was talking as if Jefferson-Carter was a viable combo.

Now, though, it is much tougher to make that case. Jefferson, the more
unselfish player, is written out of the script too often. He was 7-for-13
yesterday from the field, 2-for-3 from three-point range. He deserved to see
the ball more often, have a few more plays run for him.

"Unfortunately, I just work here," said Jefferson, who has been frustrated at
times this season with the shot distribution. "As long as I have been here, I
have never been about offense and this and that. Defense, that has been more
the story."

The Nets now are well on their way to a third straight playoff exit under
Lawrence Frank, without reaching a conference final. They aren't playing the
kind of motion basketball that got them to the NBA Finals twice under Byron
Scott, who took a lot of grief from Jason Kidd and never received enough
credit. They stand around and watch Carter too often.

The coach deserves some blame. He's been outmaneuvered by Pat Riley. When
Carter plays out of his mind, the Nets still can beat anyone, even out of a
halfcourt set. When Carter is 0-for-7 from beyond the three-point line, like
yesterday, the Nets lose.

"Nothing different than we have seen the last three games," Frank insisted
about the Heat triple-teams. "Shaq comes to the strong-side box. Vince
sometimes made passes and we didn't execute. I don't think anything caught
him off guard."

Frank has two years left on his contract, and maybe he deserves one last
autumn with a Carter-less roster to prove he remembers how to coach a real
offense. Kidd no longer can be allowed to call the shot on this, though. It
must be Rod Thorn's decision.

Time to reclaim the team concept, find another way, because only one team
ever won titles this way and there was only one Michael Jordan.

"Go back to the drawing board," Carter said. He meant for Game 5, but it's
more than that now.

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推 singernall:嘖...這種事留給Thorn去傷腦筋吧...
推 NetsFan:我認為交易RJ or VC都不是很好的抉擇 這支球隊缺乏的是深
→ NetsFan:度。在季賽當中已經太多次 先發下去休息 馬上從領先十幾分
→ NetsFan:落後下去。不能太責怪VC，目前籃網能走到這裡 VC功不可沒
→ NetsFan:RJ是效率很高的球員，我覺得教練的確是太依賴了VC
推 NetsFan:所以我們是否要一個更好的教練 知道如何把VC和RJ共同發揮
→ NetsFan:到最大值，起碼我們知道VC和RJ不會互斥。可是教練太多戰術
→ NetsFan:都交給VC了。
推 NetsFan:禁區方面 KG不是籃網的解答 籃網已經有NK了 我們需要的是
→ NetsFan:深度...大叔下季可能不會留下了 我們要更多大個子在板凳
→ NetsFan:後衛方面 不能在仰賴Vaughn了 根本是沒人可用才用他的
推 singernall:就現在情形來看...J-Mac應該也不太可能續約...
推 singernall:不然想突破現在的困境其實挺困難的....
→ singernall:中間少一句....=_=
推 ReBegin:他們兩個一定要走一個嗎?
→ singernall:"除非選秀去選到不出世的怪傑，"
→ ReBegin:總覺的缺一不可,籃網比較缺的應該是大個吧
→ singernall:薪資已爆，沒辦法....
→ ReBegin:真糟糕...那三劍客要拆夥了?
→ singernall:其實也未必，不然當初怎麼弄來VC的...XD
→ singernall:只要能補到我們需要的功能型球員就夠了吧...
推 ReBegin:還是希望他們別拆夥比較好..才一年多的說><
推 DAING:其實你們家替補戰力真的該好好重整一下的 季後賽體力耗損的
→ ReBegin:板凳搞的先發太累了阿ˋˊ
→ DAING:很快 不像例行賽靠四巨頭就夠了 不過就算找來有用的功能性球
→ DAING:員  法凸可能還是不會好好運用...我倒是很想問他 到底怎樣的
→ DAING:的球員他才有信心用...
→ ReBegin:maybe...教練也是個隱憂阿!?
推 KKB:哈 難道湖人止於第一輪會說 Time to stop the Kobe 這種鳥話嗎
→ DAING:像是之前的真男人和Johnson都不錯用阿（又回到老話題  囧）
推 singernall:Frank似乎不太欣賞濫仗型球員....
推 DAING:剛看了一下  VC本季缺陣的三場例行賽  籃網三場都輸
推 ReBegin:如果法禿的腦筋開化一點就不會走到這步田了
→ singernall:Marc跟J-Mac攪和的能力不錯，但教練就是不喜歡...
→ DAING:RJ缺陣4場  籃網四場也都輸...所以 這篇其實沒啥意義
→ singernall:哪個球隊沒濫仗型球員，又不是一定要照馬刺那樣，
→ singernall:人人乖乖的照戰術跑...
推 ReBegin:但是這下子..感覺球員心情都受影響了吧ˋˊ?
→ ReBegin:下一場還是在客場...怎麼辦
推 DAING:你們家球季還沒結束呢  之後再來討論吧 XD   ...
推 singernall:這個嘛..."認真起來"的籃網還是很可怕的...
→ singernall:起碼可以拼到4:2吧...=_=
推 ReBegin:籃網籃網別洩氣阿ˋˊ
推 takasi03:教練才是真正該換的啊..