New Jersey Nets 07-08 | 42-11 | Pre All-Star Weekend Up!

The Digital Journal of Coach Lawrence Frank
Entry #6: January 2008

Only three losses this month. That's a good thing to have, and to be honest the only team that's even competing with us right now is Dallas. They've only had 9 losses and have one more win than we do, but when we see them in the finals, they're going to have four losses. Guaranteed.

Dwight has played well this season, very well to be honest. He's produced a double-double a game and he was 1 assist shy of a triple-double against the Sonics, and 2 blocks shy of a triple-double against the Nuggets. Vince yet again produced another game winning jump shot, this time against the Magic. Dwight blocked a shot from our former Power Forward, Sean Williams and passed to Kidd, whom threw a long pass to Vince.. who actually pulled up and shot a three to put us up by two. To be honest when I saw him pulling up I nearly shed a tear at the mere sight of him potentially missing, and even after we won with that shot I took him in to the locker room to tell him that it was a stupid choice pulling up with so much time left on the clock. He apologized but it was fantastic to win.

All-Star weekend is approaching and I have a feeling either Vince or Dwight.. maybe even Richard might be invited to have a go in the competition, and I'm sure we'll have someone in our team in the Eastern All-Stars.. maybe Dwight, Vince or Kidd? Even Rasheed? Our team is full of talent, I personally believe that our entire starting five could ice a position on the team.

We suffered a humiliating loss against the Grizzlies, Rudy Gay had an amazing night. I'm not going to lie, we pursued him prior to pursuing Trevor Ariza, but the Grizzlies wouldn't budge. Tough game.

Until next time.

New Jersey Nets Coach, Lawrence Frank

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Richard Jefferson with the game-clincher against the Bobcats | Vince Carter with his second game winner of the season 83-81

Monthly Leaders (New Jersey)

PPG: Vince Carter - 20.7
RPG: Dwight Howard - 11.9
APG: Jason Kidd - 8.7
SPG: Jason Kidd - 1.86
BPG: Rasheed Wallace - 1.65

NBA.com

Monthly Leaders (Around The League)

PPG: Dirk Nowitzki - 32.6
RPG: Yao Ming - 13.2
APG: Jamal Tinsley 11.7
SPG: Bruce Bowen - 2.29
BPG: Kendrick Perkins - 2.57

Race To The MVP



Players Of The Month

East: Jermaine O'Neal
West: Steve Nash

Rookies Of The Month

East: Sean Williams
West: Greg Oden

Current Playoff Standings



Trades
(Team trading player in brackets)

November
Rasheed Wallace (Detroit) for Jamaal Magloire, Jason Collins & Bernard Robinson (New Jersey)
Trevor Ariza (Orlando) for Antoine Wright & Mile Ilic (New Jersey)

December

Trenton Hassell (Minnesota) for DeShawn Stevenson (Washington)
Thabo Sefolosha (Chicago) for Draft Pick (Warriors)
Dwight Howard (Orlando) for Sean Williams, Bostjan Nachbar & Josh Boone (New Jersey)
Mardy Collins (Knicks) for Draft Pick (Bobcats)
Hakim Warrick (Memphis) for Luther Head (Houston)

January

Andrea Bargnani (Toronto) for Stromile Swift (Memphis)
Pau Gasol (Memphis) for Rashard Lewis (Orlando)
Chauncey Billups (Detroit) for Darius Miles (Portland)
Kurt Thomas (Phoenix) for Hedo Turkoglu (Orlando)
Ryan Gomes (Minnesota) for Draft Pick (Atlanta)
Thaddeus Young (Philadelphia) for Draft Pick (Orlando)
Mikhael Gelebale (Seattle) for Draft Pick (Grizzlies)

Chauncey Billups (Detroit) for Darius Miles (Portland)

Holy shit.

That was my reaction too.

Chauncey for Darius
a.k.a
Class for Cancer.

Chauncey for Darius = Success for Failure.

Haha, update tonight. Going to have the first half of February, then All-Star Weekend followed by the second half of February, 3 separate updates

The Digital Journal of Coach Lawrence Frank
Entry #7: February 2008 / Pre All-Star Weekend

Perfection this month so far, and the sweetest victory I have had in a long time had to be that of the Dallas Mavericks. Seeing the look on Mark Cuban's face everytime Dwight or Vince dunked on one of his players. Priceless. And it was quite good to wipe that smug look off Avery's face, I told him before the game that we'd have the best record in the NBA at the end, and we're on route to do so. We're actually tied with the Dallas Mavericks at 42 wins and 11 losses each, but like I said before, we're going to have the better record.

Dwight has been fantastic yet again, and I've just gotten the word that out of all our players, he is the one that they have chosen to represent the New Jersey Nets in the Eastern All-Stars. Dwight deserves that, he's worked hard. He's had 5 20/20 night's this month, not to mention that he's also currently averaging 4 blocks per game on the month. Still, I feel Kidd and Vince were snubbed.

Vince however has been invited to participate in both the 3-Point Shootout and the Dunk Contest. Word around the league is that the NBA has decided to have a "Champions vs. Challengers" dunk contest this year, where they put two former dunk champions in the competition with two NBA high flyers who have either come close to winning or having their first shot at winning the title. Vince told me that he is going up against former dunk champion, Jason Richardson of the Bobcats, Amar'e Stoudamire of the Suns and Rudy Gay of the Grizzlies. Vince is going to win, again.

See you at All-Star Weekend.

New Jersey Nets Coach, Lawrence Frank

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D12 slamming it down off the Jason Kidd alley-oop against the Mavericks | Dwight with one of his 24 Rebounds against the Mavericks

Monthly Leaders (New Jersey)

PPG: Vince Carter - 21.6
RPG: Dwight Howard - 12.0
APG: Jason Kidd - 8.7
SPG: Jason Kidd - 1.79
BPG: Dwight Howard - 1.83

NBA.com

Monthly Leaders (Around The League)

PPG: Dirk Nowitzki - 31.5
RPG: Yao Ming - 13.1
APG: Jamal Tinsley - 12.0
SPG: Jason Terry - 2.28
BPG: Kendrick Perkins - 2.76

Race To The MVP



Players Of The Month

East: N/A
West: N/A

Rookies Of The Month

East: N/A
West: N/A

Current Playoff Standings



Trades
(Team trading player in brackets)

November
Rasheed Wallace (Detroit) for Jamaal Magloire, Jason Collins & Bernard Robinson (New Jersey)
Trevor Ariza (Orlando) for Antoine Wright & Mile Ilic (New Jersey)

December

Trenton Hassell (Minnesota) for DeShawn Stevenson (Washington)
Thabo Sefolosha (Chicago) for Draft Pick (Warriors)
Dwight Howard (Orlando) for Sean Williams, Bostjan Nachbar & Josh Boone (New Jersey)
Mardy Collins (Knicks) for Draft Pick (Bobcats)
Hakim Warrick (Memphis) for Luther Head (Houston)

January

Andrea Bargnani (Toronto) for Stromile Swift (Memphis)
Pau Gasol (Memphis) for Rashard Lewis (Orlando)
Chauncey Billups (Detroit) for Darius Miles (Portland)
Kurt Thomas (Phoenix) for Hedo Turkoglu (Orlando)
Ryan Gomes (Minnesota) for Draft Pick (Atlanta)
Thaddeus Young (Philadelphia) for Draft Pick (Orlando)
Mikhael Gelebale (Seattle) for Draft Pick (Grizzlies)

February
Bobby Jones (Philadelphia) for Sergio Rodriguez (Portland)

(Italics = Starters / Champions [For Dunk Contest])
(Bold = New Jersey Nets Player)

Rookie Challenge

Rookies

Greg Oden
Sean Williams
Kevin Durant
Nick Young
Aaron Brooks

Al Horford
Daequan Cook
Jason Smith
Brandan Wright

Sophmores

Shelden Williams
Andrea Bargnani
Walter Herrmann
Brandon Roy
Rajor Rondo

Randy Foye
Rudy Gay
J.J. Reddick
Jorge Garbajosa

Champions vs. Challengers Slam Dunk Contest

Dunkers

Vince Carter
Amar'e Stoudamire
Jason Richardson
Rudy Gay

3-Point Shootout

Shooters

Vince Carter
Dirk Nowitzki
Josh Howard
Shawn Battier
Danny Granger
Caron Butler

2008 NBA All-Star Game

East

Shaquille O'Neal
Chris Bosh
LeBron James
Dwyane Wade
Stephan Marbury

Dwight Howard
Jermaine O'Neal
Andre Iguodala
Jason Richardson
Kirk Hinrich
Kevin Garnett
Pau Gasol

West

Tim Duncan
Dirk Nowitzki
Andrei Kirilenko
Kobe Bryant
Chauncey Billups

Yao Ming
Shawn Marion
Ron Artest
Tracy McGrady
Steve Nash
Allen Iverson
Rashard Lewis

Any updates?