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Vince Carter had surgery on his right ankle today that involved the removal of loose bodies, a bone spur and a debridement of the ankle.
I had to look that one up and according to wikipedia.org debridement is a medical term referring to the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.
Here is the Cliff Notes version of Rod Thorn’s postseason meeting with beat reporters today:
It was closing time at the Nets’ practice facility today and the coach fell on a sword.
You can read about it more on the print side tomorrow, but suffice it to say he was brutally honest with his mea culpa.
Lawrence Frank used words like “empty” and “lonely” to describe how he felt about not breaking down film and preparing for a playoff game and said he “failed,” in getting the Nets to buy into his vision of how they have to play. Few could argue that. I guess I should have graded him harsher.
Here are the final grades for the 34-48 Nets. We are excluding those who have left.
Some of you probably will say I graded too kindly or on a curve because this team failed and for that everyone should fail. Here goes:
It’s over. And now begins an offseason filled with questions and more than likely change.
This time, and for the first time in six years, the Nets aren’t building around Jason Kidd. That makes the job even tougher, but it has to be done.
The Nets ended their most disappointing season since I’ve been around them (1996) with a 105-94 loss to the Celtics at TD Banknorth Garden. They closed out the grossly underachieving campaign with a 34-48 record, 10th worst in the NBA.
Richard Jefferson may have played his final home game as a Net last night and if so he went out in style.
Jefferson could return but the Nets definitely will see if they can get something for him, something that makes them better. It’s their annual offseason right and rite and this time they might be successful in moving him because of the season he’s had.
He put an exclamation point on his best individual pro season in the 112-108 overtime victory against the Bobcats.
The Nets held their last practice of the season today. They will have their last shootaround tomorrow.
Despite not making the playoffs, it’s business as usual.
Coach Lawrence Frank is not running his team like Isiah Thomas has on the other side of the Hudson by calling off practices and holding 18-minute shootarounds. The Nets coach doesn’t care about the team’s ping-pong balls when it comes to his mission for the last two games.
Lawrence Frank is coaching to win games, and apparently doesn’t think Sean Williams can help him.
This is a time when you would think the rookie could get some valuable experience
“Playing time,” Frank said about Williams, “that’s coach’s decision.”
Lawrence Frank is sorry.
He’s sorry the Nets couldn’t extend their playoff streak to seven consecutive years. He’s sorry the Nets didn’t reach expectations. He’s sorry that this is going to go down as one of the sorriest seasons the Nets have ever had.
The Nets have had worse from a win-loss standpoint. But many of those teams didn’t have the expectations this one had. At the very least, the Nets should have been in the playoffs – at the very least.
Many of you will get your wish tomorrow night. The Nets could officially, finally and mercifully be eliminated from the playoffs.
It would have been a great story if the Nets returned from this trip with something to play for, if the final games were meaningful. Any chance of that all but ended when the Nets had one of the worst fourth quarters I've ever seen and the worst one Devin Harris had ever experienced.
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