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Can't tell if you mean playing defense or scoring big against good defense.

If you're referring to Providence, he had to take over. There was little organization, and he ended up having to cover multiple roles. As for last night, people came to watch Brooks vs. Moon. And in any case, if your teammate is shooting that well, you're going to feed him the ball and let him knock down shots.

Sean Williams repeatedly got into trouble. Not sure what else we could've done. There was the incident at the cell phone store, the problems he caused in the D-League, and on the court, he stacked up fouls in no time. The T-Will situation was a result of Avery's no-nonsense policy, which may be necessary with such a young team.

Or he's going to say stuff like this. The Nets organization and fans will be thrilled, while the Knicks fans will somehow interpret it as, "HE'S GOING TO DA KNICKS 2 PLAY IN DA GAHDEN!"

Supposedly, Brooks dropped in the draft because teams were worried about his attitude. The Nets have drafted and dealt with PLENTY of troublemakers. I hope Brooks doesn't turn out the same, and I certainly don't expect it from him. He's been vocally excited about playing alongside Deron and for the Nets. The adjustment to a slightly different role should be interesting. There was little defense in the game last night, but if there's one thing we know about Brooks, it's that he does an incredible job creating his own shot. He doesn't have to entirely abandon that with the Nets, so I guess we'll see how the transition goes. I wonder if Brooks and Morrow cover our needs at the starting 2 and sixth man.

16 consecutive steals for Gardy without a CS and 30 total.

Brandon, since when can a team have four players with the same jersey number? Stop being lazy. http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/268769_10150293931440255_26426125254_9641496_6361500_n.jpg

Stefan Bondy

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Nets have another two home games in London, this time against Orlando (March 7 and 8). D-Will returns to Utah on January 14.

GGBG drives in one run and goes hard into second to allow the tying run to score. He's also successfully stolen in his last 13 attempts.

@DeronWilliams He closed his account some time ago and only used Facebook, but he's "back at it on Twitter." Billy King is also on Twitter: @bkdefend Marshon Brooks is participating in the Nike Pro-Am Basketball League in Manhattan: @Marshon2 Brooks posted this picture last week. http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/1593833/Marshon_Brooks_in_Nets_T-Shirt_large.png

JC Romero signed to a minor-league deal.

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Also worth noting that Jeter has been voted an all-star more than ten times now. He's acknowledging a similar group of voters every year, and now he's missing one year. Mental exhaustion is not invalid when you're talking about flying to Arizona just to tip your cap and shake hands. Plus, in a year where Jeter didn't deserve the votes stats-wise, you can assume that most of the votes came from Yankee fans who he acknowledges time and time again through the season.

The fans voted for Jeter to play in the game. He wants to rest his calf (because he is most concerned with making the playoffs and winning the World Series), so that makes the fan argument irrelevant. He wouldn't play even if he did show up. That brings me to my next point: the main thing Jeter would have been doing in Arizona would be fielding congratulations and having baseball celebrate his accomplishment. His whole career has been about winning as a team, so why is he suddenly to blame if he doesn't want to celebrate his personal achievements in the middle of a season? I find something like this ridiculous. The only quote in there that mentions the fans is Beltran's, and he was talking about players who aren't injured. If Derek Jeter weren't injured and chose not to play/show up, that's an argument of its own. But Jeter's job is to play for the New York Yankees and assist them in winning, not to fly to Arizona to tip his cap to the crowd.

If it's just about him not attending the game, then you're missing the point, because he's not the only player who's sitting out and not attending. The reason these anonymous MLB officials are calling him out is because baseball wanted to celebrate his 3000 hits. And because he chose not to fly across the country to celebrate his own achievements, he's at fault. Derek Jeter is apparently supposed to fly from New York to Arizona to tip his cap, and if he doesn't, he deserves blame. And what has he done that has made him less and less likeable? Please don't tell me you're thinking about the faked HBP incident.

Elaborate, please. On both sentences.

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http://oi55.tinypic.com/1fig5g.jpg Robby Cano BOOM.

Haha I was referring to bringing Kidd in. I grouped those three deals together because they all brought superstars to Jersey. And #6 is about next year's draft class. You should become a Brooklyn fan. http://mindlessdribbledotnet.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/brook-lopez.jpg?w=300&h=300 Nice answers. More people needed to have asked questions. This was Erick Blasco, people.

CC named to the All-Star team to replace Shields, and Ogando will replace CC.

I didn't even realize Jim Thome is at 595 HR's.

Incredible pitchers' duel between CC and Shields. Tough loss for the Rays. Shoppach made the first out of the second inning trying to steal third base, Upton got picked off first in the fourth, Upton got doubled off first on a fly ball in the seventh, Upton made a throwing error trying to double off Cano (Cano got a free pass to third), and Shields tried to pick Cano off third and threw the ball away (Cano scored the only run of the game). Carsten Charles is a monster.

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