Squeaking Through

2006_04_snetslogo.jpgConsistent when it counted, the Nets ended the suspense in their first round series with Thursday's 96-90 win in Indiana. After sleepwalking through the first three games and trailing 2-1, New Jersey won the next three and will face Miami in the conference semifinals. Thursday's hero wasn't Vince Carter, whom Gothamist has toted as the key to the Nets' fate, but Richard Jefferson, who scored 30 points on 10-13 shooting.

Needing six games to advance doesn't necessarily portend bad things in the Nets' future. After struggling the way they did in games one and three, they should be happy to advance. Jermaine O'Neal couldn't get his feet wet, and if not for Anthony Johnson's heroics (40 points in game 6, among other performances), the Nets might have advanced easily. Gothamist is worried about the looming Heat, but they hardly looked invincible in their series against Chicago. One thing's for sure: they won't be able to take two games off and win that series.

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I too have toted Vince all around town, in my special Vinsanity sized totes bag.

The player that stepped up in this series big time was Kristic.

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Goddammed Nets.
They going to screw over us Veronica Mars fans again next week?
Damn you Brooklyn hating Bruce Ratner!
May your pathetic little bunch of thugs in their underwear get swept by the other bunch of overpaid thugs in their underwear they are playing.

My life's been pretty dull recently. Shrug. My mind is like a void. I haven't gotten anything done lately. I can't be bothered with anything recently.

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