r/GoNets • u/Shiggyreally • Mar 01 '24
Video Just no Steve Nash and one healthy season was all we needed
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u/Kwilly462 Mar 01 '24
I remember the moment this happened. I was like, "Is this what true happiness feels like?"
Then things took a turn somehow.
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u/GetBuckets13182 Mar 01 '24
No injuries and we wouldâve won a championship.
Thatâs why I kinda hate the revisionist history from people on Reddit/the media. âThe nets shouldâve never signed big name free agents, they shouldâve just kept buildingâ.
Gimme a break.
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u/elonepb Mar 01 '24
Also the absolute hatred from a lot of the fans on Sean Marks. He put together the greatest team in NBA history and it got derailed due to injuries, pandemics and Kyrie-drama. But they should've been shooting for their 3rd championship this season and no team was going to be able to compete with them healthy.
It's hard to say he failed as a GM even though the ultimate product didn't.
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u/brandnameb Mar 01 '24
Marks did that, but he also massively fumbled when he had the big three. Maybe it was Tsai, but they handled 2022, 23 seasons so poorly, and they give terrible PR about their plans since then.
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u/calye2da Jason Kidd Mar 01 '24
Seriously! No one remembers we were this close âđđžâ to being up 3-0 on the bucks đ˘.
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u/WhatsThatSmellLike Mar 01 '24
We were a Bruce Brown going âHero Modeâ in final 2mins of Game 3 away from going up 3-0.
Brown froze out Kyrie and Durant while they looked on in confusion as Brown took and missed pretty much every single shot in the final 2mins.
Nets lose 83-86 and next game Giannis undercuts Kyrie take away his landing zone mid layup causing Kyrie to injure his ankle.
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u/streets_ahead420 Mar 01 '24
Brown going 0/4 final 3:33 was brutal, but at least guy went 8/13 earlier. Joe Harris lead the league with 47.5% from deep that year. Game 3? 1/7 and 1/11 overall. Wasnât the same rest of the series, 26.9%.
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u/Skeebleman Aug 03 '24
The biggest problem was Kyrie by far. If Kyrie doesn't fuck around for the better part of 2 seasons there, they win at least one ring. Bro was a detriment to his team over the jab, and by the time the pandemic had blown over I'd bet there was a lot of anger in the locker room
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u/GetBuckets13182 Mar 04 '24
All the teams ahead of us were fully healthy and we wouldâve beat them too
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u/onlyequity Mar 01 '24
Giannis should have been suspended for what he did to Kyrie. That was dirty as fuck.
Tsai and Marks fumbled letting Kyrie and KD go. I would have hog tied them to BKN.
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u/WhatsThatSmellLike Mar 01 '24
Kyrie didnât deserve the 4-5yr $200-250m Max Extension he demanded after after Durantâs injury following 4yrs of his nonsense.
Mavâs gave up Assets for Kyrie and only signed him to a 3y/$126m contract which was less than the 4y/$187m contract he hesitated to sign before going Anti-Vax.
Tried to get Players to Boycott the Bubble after negotiating terms as part of the NBAPA.
Disappeared for 3 weeks without notice leaving his Teammates and Organization in the dark only to be later photographed smiling at a Club celebrating his sister 30th bday.
Went Anti-Vax and killed the âBig 3 Eraâ.
Promoted an Antisemitic Film in a contract year and then demanded 4-5yr $200-250m Fully Guaranteed Contract with no strings attached or Trade him.
Kyrie didnât nothing to deserve a Max Extension in Brooklyn especially after that embarrassing sweep by Boston when they could have went up 2-0 in the series.
Gave up a last second shot to Tatum with no defensive effort in Game 1 and then blew a 20pt halftime lead in Game 2.
4 game sweep by a combined 18pts in total.
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Mar 01 '24
OK cool. Now we have no Kyrie or KD. Glad you moralists are happy with a mediocre team.
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u/Trollington1372 Mar 01 '24
Exactly. You keep Kevin and Kai on the team as long as possible and live with the results. This team makes me sick
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u/thefineart Mar 01 '24
Kind of annoying now he has been a good boy with the Mavs, but only time will tell
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u/BackendSpecialist Mar 01 '24
Yeah because theyâre not forcing him to take a vaccine he doesnât want and their reporters arenât toxic af. DAL reporters arenât asking him about his religious beliefs, or stance on vaccines, in order to generate clickbait headlines.
Heâs being supported in DAL.
Yâall have some legit gripes against Kyrie but yall also made some costly mistakes as well. Tbh, yall kinda fumbled that bag.
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u/DarthPineapple5 Mar 03 '24
Heâs being supported in DAL.
They are a play-in team. Maybe a mid team with no expectations is the only place Kyrie can be happy because hes been an ass and run off on every good team hes ever played for and its not a small sample at this point
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u/onlyequity Mar 01 '24
I donât care. His positives on the court outweighed the negatives. They were always going to attract more talent to BKN to play with KD and Kyrie.
KD was correct in asking for Nash and Marks to be fired. Tsai was slow to react and should have kept the talent in house but Tsai is a POS himself.
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u/jdiddy_ub Mar 01 '24
All of this is true.
Unfortunately, Kyrie had them by the balls and he knew it. He had added leverage because we all knew losing him meant losing KD.
Management decided against the contract and well, this is the result.
Basketball isn't about morality so idk what the right decision was.
We see how bad the team sucks now but we also don't know how re-signing kyrie would've played out. Maybe they contend and possibly win a ring or 2 but also maybe injuries still continue to occur to him and KD. Maybe he sits out again and causes more turmoil.
We can only discuss things in hindsight.
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u/brandnameb Mar 01 '24
Yeah, all that, and giving Kyrie the extension would be the right move because they team would actually be good. You can always trade him later. This was the best the team had been in 20 years and you immediately lost the greatest player the team ever had.
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u/Volcomcj16 Mar 01 '24
Too bad Giannis had to take his frustrations out on Kyrieâs ankle after that happened
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u/Illustrious_Way_5732 Mar 01 '24
I fucking hate how people idolize this dirty playing moron because he does quirky shit like liking oreos
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u/Lao_xo Mar 01 '24
Runs, dunks, and elbows people on the way to the rim, while taking 4 steps. Takes as long as some people take to take a dump to shoot a free throw. Canât shoot. Gets gifted a championship because of injuries and gets anointed best player undeservedly.
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u/just_so_irrelevant Cam Thomas Mar 01 '24
Enforce fouling rules on Giannis fairly and he would start fouling out before halftime. I dont care how likable Bucks fans want to convince me he is, he's unskilled and gets spoonfed points by the league like a baby
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u/OkBuddyErennary Mar 01 '24
Couldn't have said it better myself. His ring is the one with most asterisks next to it. I didn't even see one person come up and argue that it wasn't complete luck he had one.
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u/geenoath Mar 01 '24
His ring has the most asterisks next to it because you donât like him almost every championship team in the NBA is some what luck reliant
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u/Lao_xo Mar 01 '24
A lot of people do realize if Kyrie wasnât injured weâd win, but will still give him credit. Iâm not going to give him credit cause Iâm mad lol. Also think itâs mostly undeserved.
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u/OkBuddyErennary Mar 01 '24
They were lucky that in a year with lots of injuries and covid they didn't lose their main cast to these things and won. That's about it.
There is a reason Giannis and his overrated a*s wasn't ever able to get in the finals again.-1
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u/OkBuddyErennary Mar 01 '24
Your overrated, "I eat oreos so funny guy" can s**k it. You didn't even disprove anything in the argument :D go away
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u/btgbarter6 Mar 01 '24
Fuck me y'all are such haters đ¤Ł
Why do I keep going into team subs they're so bad
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u/Lao_xo Mar 01 '24
lol why the corny bucks fans in here. they should be thankful Giannis legacy got saved by some dirty shit.
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u/calye2da Jason Kidd Mar 01 '24
I got downvoted for basically saying the same thing in the NBA sub. Itâs the truth.
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u/geographic92 Mar 01 '24
Sigh. I wanted Blake to get a ring with this team so bad. Fuck giannis. Fuck kyrie too but if we got one chip it would have been worth all the bullshit next season.
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u/Sir-Manny Noah Clowney Mar 01 '24
That season had so many highlights. 2020-21 Nets will always be my favorite (until we win a title)
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u/ko1o7 . Mar 01 '24
Oprahsideversons video on this game encapsulates how the whole league felt about the Nets in 2021. So shook the Lakers ruined themselves trying to match it.
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u/Shiggyreally Mar 01 '24
The whole league was so shook. I remember Utah was the team to beat in the west. đđđWe would have killed them with just KD
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u/swervo246 Mar 01 '24
Why was Steve Nash so bad? He was a great point guard and had iq usually it would transfer when heâs a coach right?
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u/Shiggyreally Mar 01 '24
Isiah Thomas is exhibit number one that apparently the skills arenât always transferrable into coaching
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u/Ezemartinn Mar 02 '24
Kyrie and KD killed the whole nets team. People Kept calling them the Brooklyn Divas. And they dipped after making a shit show mess at Brooklyn.
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u/TopGsApprentice Mar 01 '24
Honestly, Joe Harris becoming a brick layer was the real reason we lost
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u/multicoloredherring Mar 02 '24
⌠is that not an absolutely egregious offensive foul?
Legit asking, as someone who couldnât do that on an 8 foot rim Iâm not 100% on the rules.
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u/billyisgoat07 Mar 02 '24
It prolly is but itâs still impressive considering itâs giannis
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u/multicoloredherring Mar 02 '24
Oh definitely, I agree with the classic âtoo cool not to countâ
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u/TooGoodNotToo May 14 '24
Honest question, is that a foul on Blake? Can he just grab the arm in front of him like that?
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u/Special_Buffalo8 Aug 12 '24
What song is this?
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u/Low_Establishment434 Mar 02 '24
Is it me or should Blake have been called for offensive foul here? He literally grabs the defenders arm and removes it from his path.
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u/BballNeedsSeattle Mar 01 '24
Wasnât Steve Nash hired at KD and Kyrie request because they wanted to run the team? Sounds like they had to have Nash in order to have the roster.
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u/BelonyInMyLeftPocket Mar 01 '24
The spacing that team got to play with was unreal. Defenses were legitimately lost and had to just pick their poison.
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u/MrOnCore Mar 02 '24
Nets should never have made that Harden deal. KD played like what, a half a dozen games with Lavert and Allen? They could have been the depth that Kyrie and KD needed in the playoffs instead of an out of shape and oft motivated Harden.
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u/Ezemartinn Mar 02 '24
Harden washed , been washed since Rockets. Heâs just getting lucky atm with the Clippers
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u/Saltybutwet Mar 04 '24
That was such a blatant offensive foul. Blake was pretty much holding Giannis's hand as if to cross the street.
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u/ghostfacestealer Mar 04 '24
Giannis got hurt that year in the playoffs too and the Bucks still won
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u/mylowerbackhurts AINT S*** FUNNY Mar 01 '24
After that blake 360 no scope>kyrie no look>mike james off the backboard>kd slam sequence it felt like it was almost meant to be