- Belinelli didn’t play. Morrow and AR themselves combined for 31 minutes, so if you were adding minutes in the box score, you may be referring to Buike, Morrow, and AR, who totalled 40 minutes. Buike wasn’t playing well after coming back from his back injury, so that’s why he only played 9 minutes. Morrow played 14 minutes, and I think he was on the floor for the entire 4th, so Morrow got some closer minutes, which Nellie usually doesn’t give to a rookie.

- Yes, Nellie didn’t rest any vets, and that’s one question I still have. Is he done with the rest-a-vet? Is he settling on tall ball once Wright gets back?

- I can only guess that Nellie is giving Crawford minutes to showcase his skills for another team that he might get more minutes on.

- Nellie says he didn’t bring back Monta in the 4th because that line up out there was doing well.

- It does feel like the beginning of the season, I agree. I think it’s because Nellie is easing into his tall ball line up he mentioned the day before. Nellie has mentioned that the switch to tall ball won’t happen all at once. It looks like last night’s game was seeing if Monta can handle the point.

I didn’t think the win was “really wrong” (unless you’re looking from a lottery perspective). I took a few positives from the game, mentioned my comments in the recap. I don’t think the Nets are a “horrible” team, more like mediocre. They were certainly kicking our butts in that 2nd qtr, where their bench was raining shots on us.

To me, it seems like he starts with tall ball but goes back to his old ways of playing small ball. I think he just has the starting lineup pretty tall just to satisfy us fans that have been asking for it, but by the 2nd quarter, it is back to ol Nellie and his small ball lineups.

maybe Rowell is asking Nelly to win some games so STH will renew.

Once they have their money we can continue tanking properly.

Gotta get wins where you can or the team will implode out of frustration.

Of course Monta won’t play the entire game, he just got back from 2 weeks off, he’s going to be a little out of shape. I’m fine with that.

Buike was playing horribly, why would he stay in the game?

In a way it may have been great for the game not to play CJ, as his lack of defense could have really cost us.

The only thing that ticks me off is that Marco got no PT. I would have been perfectly happy with the coaching job if Crawford got around 35 minutes and Marco got to play a little point when Crawford / Monta were out.

itll come across as bad… but he’ll opt out and develop our team at same time

Difficult for marco to get pt in a dress suit

If Nellie really wants to go big, I expect him to go with this lineup tonight
PG- Monta
SG- Jackson
SF- Randolph
PF- B Wright
C- Biedrins
even if this isn’t the starting lineup, this should be the lineup that plays the majority of the game. let Crawford come off the bench, if he’s not part of the future plan then cut down his minutes, we don’t need a win, we need to build chemistry !!

Complain about the loses, complain about the wins. There is just no pleasing some people.

Yeah, I’m with ya, especially because I don’t think 46 minutes of Jamal Crawford helps us win even if that is the goal. For all of Nellie’s encouraging talk about going bigger and younger, he seems to have trouble doing it mid-game. Maybe that’s why he decided on the “bench a vet” strategy, so he couldn’t be tempted to overplay them.

I’m open to the idea that the team should win some home games right now for the sake of season tickets. But three quarters of small-ball and 46 minutes of Jamal Crawford not only hurts the future, it hurts the present. Nellie needs to coach better than this.

GSOM Mods, you can go ahead and delete this post.

Tonight was freakin awesome

every meaningless win gets us further from a great draft pick this offseason. I know we don’t need another young player, but atleast we could use the pick as a trade option. I am all for tanking the rest of the season.

O and didnt randolph foul out.. im sure that cut his minutes back