BOKI gets career night, 1 game after National TNT game

I think we could have used some of those dribble drive jams the other night against Phoenix. Boki is the perfect offensive combination against a team like them. He can knock down the open 3 ball and if they close out hard, he can run by and throw down at the rim.

 

Eddie Griffin's driving p*rn would have helped us too.

Look, if you really want to get into the hypothetical "if we had kept nachbar" game - then we're going to have to invoke all sorts of alternative scenarios.

No David Wesley? Ok we stick with Jim Jackson - the 05 team misses the playoffs.

Then we draft Gerald Green - then what happens to Nachbar - does JVG stay? Does the price of oil flucutate? etc. Does Nachbar even develop in Houston, or does it take three coaches, two trades, and his last NBA chance for it to happen?

Not worth it. We're set at SF now, if anything we have too many swingmen.

 

This Board thinks Boki is the answer v Suns? You think Boki was a legit NBA player LAST nite?

Nachbar is what he is: an ok deep rotation player, who complements Carter who commands double teams with every touch.

Sure I'd take him back, but I wouldn't start crowing that the Rox have closed the talent gap with Suns. This team needs talent upgrades. Boki is not the answer.

 

You brought Luther up before I did . sorry - I did not mean to sugget Boki start at the 2 guard-I realize we are loaded at the 3.

It's academic anyway- he's not coming here. We cannot afford him anyway. This coach would not want him. We will be in this position for the next season also- good enough to get in playoffs, not good enough to get out of the 1st round.

Head plays no D by the way.

 

Nachbar can play the 4 against teams like Phoenix.

 

Who does he guard?

 

I'm personally not loyal to any side of the argument here, but I think this should be the final say.

 

another NICE throwdown tonight for boki in elton brand's face!

it was a big bucket down the stretch in a close game, and he threw it down over a great shot blocker. go boki

 

Here are the Clippers/ Nets full game highlights:

http://broadband.nba.com/cc/playa.p...caps/recap_990_lacnjn.asx&video=&nbasite=nets

Boki's Dunk Near The 1 Minute Or So Mark

 

Nachbar is probably the top player in the league right now.

 

Obviously! He's probably gonna make first team All-NBA!

Maybe they'll put him in the 50 greatest of all time -- Robert Parish certainly doesn't belong.

 

Boki is dunking on everyone!

http://www.******************/viewtopic.php?t=639211

Duncan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNc1LcUEec&NR

Dalembert

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jrhFriD_6IQ

Brand

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HNdiZ2_wna4

Jeffries

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ddaDLDlY484

Jermaine O Neal

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cKnOvwp-3Nc

Anthony Parker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YpILcZUYM&mode=related&search=

Calvin Booth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8HWLW_d80

 

Someone find the vid of him dunking on Malone, I cant find it

 

I've got it archived on disc somewhere, if no one else finds it, I'll go look for it.

there were several versions of it, cant believe it is nowhere to be found.

 

He looks like a budding Tom Chambers on those dunks.



DD

 

I'd trade Kirk Snyder for him in a hot second.

 

good article on Boki in CNNSI

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/chris_mannix/03/19/nachbar/index.html

Executive power
Nets' Nachbar serves as president of team in Slovenia

In his role as New Jersey's sixth man, Bostjan Nachbar is nothing if not efficient. The supersub is a whirling dervish on the court, whether it be bombing from behind the three-point line (39 percent for the season) or going hard to the hole (Nachbar has had several YouTube-caliber dunks this season). Nachbar has become an indispensable part of the Nets' rotation.

As a team executive, well, let's just say Nachbar is absentee.

That's not a bad thing, though. In addition to his duties in the Nets' frontcourt, Nachbar doubles as the president of Kosarkaski Klub Koper, a first-division team in the Slovenian Men's League based out of the city of Koper. He is the de facto face of the 40-year-old franchise despite spending most of his time living an ocean away.

Two years ago, while a member of the New Orleans Hornets, Nachbar, 26, negotiated a deal with Koper that gave him the right to run the team for three years. While Nachbar spends most of Koper's season Stateside (the NBA and Slovenian League's seasons coincide), Nachbar's father, Vlado, a former basketball coach, runs the day-to-day operations.

"Basketball in Slovenia isn't as big as it was six or seven years ago," Nachbar says. "My father and I want to make it big again, give kids an alternative to playing soccer."

As Nachbar points out, basketball has faded in Slovenia since the late 1990s, when NBA players like Nachbar, Toronto's Rasho Nesterovic and Charlotte's Primoz Brezec starred in the league. Growing up, Nachbar struggled with the politics of playing in his homeland, as the local teams (which have low operating budgets) clung to their talented players, refusing to let them sign more lucrative deals with powerful Euroleague teams.

"I know how hard it was for me," says Nachbar, whose brother, Grego, plays for the team. "With my team, I want to be just the opposite. I want to help these young kids develop so they can go on to bigger and better things."

The club has thrived under Nachbar. When he took over, Koper was floundering at the bottom of the First Division. Support was at an all-time low and the team was in danger of dropping into the country's Second Division, which happens automatically when a team finishes in last place. But with an operating budget of just over $200,000 (the highest budget in the league is $700,000), Nachbar has overhauled not only the senior team but also a junior, cadet and pioneer team that has players as young as 14.

"A lot of other teams pay a lot of money to older players then fold when they don't win," Nachbar says. "I didn't want that. I want to make sure the younger players get a chance to play."

His popularity in Slovenia has brought in sponsors, and Nachbar takes every opportunity in the offseason to meet with potential sponsors as well as the Koper mayor to drum up support. During the summer he travels back to Koper, where he recently built a house, and sits in on team meetings and occasionally scrimmages with the players. When the Nets' forward reports to NBA training camp in October, Vlado sends his son tapes of the team's games and Nachbar will follow the club's statistics over the Internet. The two talk basketball by phone several times a week.

"We make most of the decisions together," Vlado says. "Boki will look at the tapes and give me his opinion."

Nets coach Lawrence Frank, for one, isn't surprised Nachbar has made the conversion from player to executive.

"Boki is a smart guy," Frank says. "A lot of former players become general managers. I could see Boki in an NBA front office someday."

Nachbar's teammates are equally as supportive -- to a point.

"I know he would do a great job," Richard Jefferson says. "But if he asks me to suit up for his team, no way."

Nachbar says he will continue to run the team through the end of the year, when he will make a decision whether to stay on as team president. Surely a man who makes $2.5 million per season could use the extra paycheck, right?

"No money," Nachbar says with a laugh. "I do it because I love working with these kids. As long as their interest is there, I'll be there."

 

I cant find it on youtube or anywhere else, it keeps saying this video is forbidden or something

 

f'n malone probably took some kind of legal action to have the video destroyed.

pu##y.

 

George Karl: "Nachbar scares me to death."