Le Basketbawl

With a record of 2-21 you would not things could get any worse for the New Jersey Nets. However you would be wrong because now the team is starting  to rot from within. The  in-fighting has started; the sniping and the pointing of fingers which  is what really destroys a team is in full bloom right now in New Jersey. Earlier this  week it was veteran point guard Rafer Alston complaining to the media about the team’s lack of enthusiasm. Friday night after the Nets lost to Indiana Pacers another player decided to voice his displeasure to reporters.

Saturday “The Star-Ledger” reported that a guy that New Jersey is looking at as part of the future of their franchise is none too pleased with the present situation of the team. According to reports Nets point guard Devin Harris spent half-time  talking with New Jersey Team President Rod Thorn about the “lack of direction” that the team had in huddles. After the game  Harris spoke with  reporters about his thoughts on the team and what prompted the conversation with Thorn.

Harris told reporters “We’re a little divided as a team right now. We got to find a way to pull it together. Obviously, what’s been said in the paper. . . .It’s a little rough right now. It’s no secret. You guys have written it. But it’s a team that wants to win. And we care. Obviously our record doesn’t show we’ve been playing well, but everybody comes to work every day. We have to find a way to coexist as a team and play well together.”

Yo Devin; there is an old saying in New York Vinnie’s neighborhood “Never Let Them See You Sweat.”  You My Man did exactly that on Friday night; you told reporters and in turn the public all your team’s dirty little secrets. If you were not a divided team before you certainly are now that this Crapolla has hit the papers. However Devin you are wrong about one thing; your team does have a sense of direction. It’s just headed the wrong Frickin way. And to top things off My Man with that statement you  have started  the process of becoming a former member of the New Jersey Nets.

Mark New York Vinnie’s words down on this; because this is something you can take to the Frickin Bank. Devin Harris will either be traded (if the Nets are smart) or will leave the team as a Free Agent (if the club is not smart) as soon as he is capable of doing so. The waters have now been Frickin sullied and once that Crapolla becomes public it all comes down to just a matter of when.

The New Jersey Nets have a head coach in Kiki Vandeweghe who has never coached at any level. Of course there is a “lack of direction” in the huddles because Kiki has no idea what direction to send you in! You can not have on the job Frickin training in the NBA during the season. However that is what is happening with the Nets.

The New Jersey Nets do not have a lot of valuable assets on their roster however Devin Harris is one of them. If Rod Thorn is smart he lets this die down and then next summer Harris is in a deal that gets them some young talent that might help solve the Nets problem with a “lack of direction.”