Wouldn't say rooting, but have "following interest"!

Im more neutral on Nets that I thought. Have to say Garnett presence and leaderhship is impressive, and I thought Pierce was classy giving props to the Raptors at the end of the game. Raptors played good defense and Nyets could not buy a bucket at the end.

I like good theatre and enjoying the playoffs. I think the refs did a good job on both ends. Im sure the fans didn't!

I wish this was the Knicks-Nyets in this series!!! It would have been fun!

Nyets gonna be tired but they are deep. They are built to play up with Miami. Deron needs to play better!

Welcome to the new CBA guys lots of drama with Parity.

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

dk7th wrote:paul pierce is the truth. cluuuutch play on defense.

it's great to have a new york team going to the second round. all new yorkers should be able to root for the nets against miami. non-new yorkers? maybe not

brooklyn represent!

Naw, I'd rather root for Miami. The only thing worse that the Heat is a Nets team stocked with old Celtic players.

Agree. Two of the guys I hate the most all time on one team and I used to like the Nets.

since you don't live in the five boroughs i can understand your lack of allegiance to a new york city team. there's a chance that the other poster is also living outside the five boroughs.

no big deal as it's no crime to be a knick fan not actually living in new york city but it's an interesting phenomenon all the same.

btw the five boroughs include manhattan, brooklyn, queens, the bronx, and, oddly, staten island.

Listening to Knick fans bandwagoning the Nets try to justify it to themelves amuses me! And they seem to want to discreetly convince other Knick fans to join them. Enjoy rooting for Paul Pierce and Deron Williams!

in reality it isn't bandwagoning since the knicks epically failed this season and managed to alienate many knick fans in the process because of their incompetence and circus-like atmosphere. moreover there is no actual rivalry between the two franchises since they have virtually novplayoff history against one another.

if brooklyn were not in it many knick fans would find some other team to root for. but here they are, so there you go.

I seem to remember getting all worked up about this with Nalod back when the nets first moved to Brooklyn, and I think I over reacted- it's up to people to decide their own nba moral code and what team to root for- I do like to taunt you a bit about it, but I don't mean anything mean spirited!

But I will say I think I hate Paul Pierce more than any other nba player- aargh!

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

dk7th wrote:paul pierce is the truth. cluuuutch play on defense.

it's great to have a new york team going to the second round. all new yorkers should be able to root for the nets against miami. non-new yorkers? maybe not

brooklyn represent!

Naw, I'd rather root for Miami. The only thing worse that the Heat is a Nets team stocked with old Celtic players.

Agree. Two of the guys I hate the most all time on one team and I used to like the Nets.

since you don't live in the five boroughs i can understand your lack of allegiance to a new york city team. there's a chance that the other poster is also living outside the five boroughs.

no big deal as it's no crime to be a knick fan not actually living in new york city but it's an interesting phenomenon all the same.

btw the five boroughs include manhattan, brooklyn, queens, the bronx, and, oddly, staten island.

Listening to Knick fans bandwagoning the Nets try to justify it to themelves amuses me! And they seem to want to discreetly convince other Knick fans to join them. Enjoy rooting for Paul Pierce and Deron Williams!

in reality it isn't bandwagoning since the knicks epically failed this season and managed to alienate many knick fans in the process because of their incompetence and circus-like atmosphere. moreover there is no actual rivalry between the two franchises since they have virtually novplayoff history against one another.

if brooklyn were not in it many knick fans would find some other team to root for. but here they are, so there you go.

I seem to remember getting all worked up about this with Nalod back when the nets first moved to Brooklyn, and I think I over reacted- it's up to people to decide their own nba moral code and what team to root for- I do like to taunt you a bit about it, but I don't mean anything mean spirited!

But I will say I think I hate Paul Pierce more than any other nba player- aargh!

hate him all you want. the dude is clutch, a winner-- finals mvp-- and commands respect. right?

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

dk7th wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

dk7th wrote:paul pierce is the truth. cluuuutch play on defense.

it's great to have a new york team going to the second round. all new yorkers should be able to root for the nets against miami. non-new yorkers? maybe not

brooklyn represent!

Naw, I'd rather root for Miami. The only thing worse that the Heat is a Nets team stocked with old Celtic players.

Agree. Two of the guys I hate the most all time on one team and I used to like the Nets.

since you don't live in the five boroughs i can understand your lack of allegiance to a new york city team. there's a chance that the other poster is also living outside the five boroughs.

no big deal as it's no crime to be a knick fan not actually living in new york city but it's an interesting phenomenon all the same.

btw the five boroughs include manhattan, brooklyn, queens, the bronx, and, oddly, staten island.

Listening to Knick fans bandwagoning the Nets try to justify it to themelves amuses me! And they seem to want to discreetly convince other Knick fans to join them. Enjoy rooting for Paul Pierce and Deron Williams!

in reality it isn't bandwagoning since the knicks epically failed this season and managed to alienate many knick fans in the process because of their incompetence and circus-like atmosphere. moreover there is no actual rivalry between the two franchises since they have virtually novplayoff history against one another.

if brooklyn were not in it many knick fans would find some other team to root for. but here they are, so there you go.

I seem to remember getting all worked up about this with Nalod back when the nets first moved to Brooklyn, and I think I over reacted- it's up to people to decide their own nba moral code and what team to root for- I do like to taunt you a bit about it, but I don't mean anything mean spirited!

But I will say I think I hate Paul Pierce more than any other nba player- aargh!

hate him all you want. the dude is clutch, a winner-- finals mvp-- and commands respect. right?

He negates it all with his smug, smug face and annoying personality!

I hate the celtics and with those two gone I thought I'd really not like them on the nyets but for some reason they don't bother me. Pierce seems tamer and KG seems like Rasheed. I could not stand Rasheed but he becomes a knick and its all good right? If KG was a knick we'd be gushing about his intensity and coach like effect with the yoot.

Many of you hated Kidd but he won you over.

To each his own and we are all bound by the preference that knicks play for something important. TO me the knicks have no rivals because its been so long. Heat of today are not the Mourning/Hardaway heat. We even get TImmy JR and root for him. Real hatred would be to hate the offspring as well!!! Even the Pierce/KG celts had no natural rivalry with us. They won, we sucked.

NYKBocker wrote:

smackeddog wrote:How many times did Lowry get fouled on that last play?!

2 times. Twice by KG.

JKidd, COTY! For the category of Perfectly Timed Ref Complaints...

markvmc wrote:

holfresh wrote:Gotta root for Brooklyn...Can't ever root for Miami...

Anyone Except The Boston Nets.

This....Rather see Lebron win another ring before seeing the Nyets advance.....

smackeddog wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

smackeddog wrote:How many times did Lowry get fouled on that last play?!

2 times. Twice by KG.

It's amazing how KG becomes immune to fouls on last plays (as well as elbows all through the game)- still haven't forgotten how he flattened Shump to free up a shooter to win the game in that playoff series against them (the one we lost)

Ugh. I remember him tripping up Toney Douglas to close out game 1. Then we follow up with an incredible game 2 by Melo, only for Jeffries to blow the game winning layup. Still bitter about that series, felt we should have taken both games in Boston.

Fawk KG. Fawk Pierce. I won't cheer for Bron and Wade, but I am actively rooting against the Nets.

Nalod wrote:

smackeddog wrote:How many times did Lowry get fouled on that last play?!

If you ain't Jordan or Lebron you don't get that call............

or floppsy gallo

smackeddog wrote:How many times did Lowry get fouled on that last play?!

at 4 seconds in he seems to carry or palm the ball from right to left to get by williams and is kind of out of control. the refs let that one go.

at 6 seconds he pushes off to get by garnett whose hands are straight up. still looks out of control.

immediately after that he loses the ball in an attempt to split the defenders whose hands are straight up. again out of control. and then he runs into his own man patterson on his release hand.

lastly it's a tear drop release so the ball has left his hand like a shotput.

he was fouled exactly zero times.