Carter was placed on the injured list by the Raptors after injuring his heel Dec. 9 in a loss at Detroit. He was eligible to return for New Jersey's contest Tuesday at Charlotte, but Thorn said the Nets don't want to take any chances. New Jersey also plays at home Wednesday against Cleveland, and then has four days off before resuming the season Dec. 27 at Detroit. He sat out his five games but there is still a little inflammation, ... We only have the two games this week, and then we're off for awhile so it makes sense to give him some rest now. We want to make sure it's not chronic.
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And if you talk to our three best players, they all think we have a good team,' ... If you talk to Jason, his attitude is as positive as I've heard since then. When your better players think you have a good team, that's a very positive thing.'Rod Thorn
With players, everybody wants to play, ... Everybody would like to get playing time. You've got to be able to do what you need to do in order to play. Obviously, from the coach's standpoint, he's going to play guys he thinks are going to help him win the game.
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Barring injury, barring something crazy happening, I definitely think we're a playoff team. I think we're a team that certainly has a good chance to get home-court advantage in the first round.
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He was a big piece to our puzzle and a quality player. So if it works out that we don't complete the trade, then we've lost a quality player.
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Jason's attitude about our team is as positive as I've heard him since his second year when we were coming off the Finals. When your better players think you have a good team, I think that's a very positive thing.
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Obviously we weren't aware of it, and after all the conversations back and forth, I don't think the player was aware there was any problem. He hadn't missed any games regarding this. To my knowledge, Portland wasn't aware of it.
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