aaron c beals

from today’s Daily Dime on ESPN.com (emphasis mine):

This time, however, the aura surrounding the Nets is different. The roster remains fundamentally flawed from the duplication Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter bring to the roster, and the nine-game losing streak has left New Jersey with a goal for this season that really boils down to striving to secure the seventh or eighth playoff seed in the East, which brings with it a daunting postseason matchup against the clearly superior Celtics or Pistons.

you would think that with all the talk about the transformation of the C’s this season, this sort of rhetoric wouldn’t faze a diehard fan like me. but you know… it really doesn’t get old, and i don’t think it ever will.