IronWillGiroud wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:

IronWillGiroud wrote:Nets are a top 3 team immediately, and if they can back it up with some balls i can easily see them winning championship next season,

Nets are going all in. they are mortaging their future to win next year so for tehir sake tehy better win otherwise they are screwed. They also have a lot of injury risks. DWill Lopez JJ and Garnett all have injury concerns

they're all in, but they're really all in,

not like us, we are fugazi 'all in',

loweyecue wrote:Kidd know what it takes to play old, he should be able to figure out how to manage the rotations. They may even sacrifice regular season dominance for a healthy starting 5 during the playoffs. But they need to work on that bench still. Terry is good of course - but after that - IDK?

TeamBall wrote:

loweyecue wrote:Kidd know what it takes to play old, he should be able to figure out how to manage the rotations. They may even sacrifice regular season dominance for a healthy starting 5 during the playoffs. But they need to work on that bench still. Terry is good of course - but after that - IDK?

I think it was Broussard who said this but someone made the point that Kidd also needs to give them enough on court time to get their chemistry together. Completely agree about the bench as well.

Wow Broussard agreed with me? Hmm not sure how I feel about that :)
But from a pure talent/skill perspective they have the best starting 5 - it's not really close.

loweyecue wrote:
But from a pure talent/skill perspective they have the best starting 5 - it's not really close.

By what metric? They lack dribble penetration in the half-court and speed in transition. Both Garnett and Lopez would be guarded 1 on 1 at this point by most elite teams. High post offense is mitigated by the average off the ball movement of their perimeter cast. Although a great perimeter shooting team, pick and roll options are limited without 3 point shooting at positions 4/5. They are average defensively on the perimeter and above average at 4/5. Average rebounding team.

All in all, a decent team with high injury risk, coaching on a learning curve, and one that will struggle, even if healthy, in multiple areas.

loweyecue wrote:You think Deron williams and Jason Terry cannot penetrate? What teams have three point shooting at the 5 position? Both Pierce and Joe Johnson can draw double teams and can play off each other. I just have a ton of respect for Pierce's game and what he can do. He has deinitely slowed down but he is an incredibly crafty ballplayer.

Pierce will still give u 15 5 5

Looks like Blatche will return, who needs to understand that KG will ride him hard but could if receptive understand the game better and how to get mentally tough.

But at the same time, there seems to be high praise for the Nets who just traded all their depth and three first round picks for two fading, really old former all stars and a bench shooting guard. They just hired a new coach who was a HOF player, but has no experience nor credentials as a coach and has a past that includes wife beating, partying and DUI. They let go their former GM who built an outstanding roster, made two championship runs and stockpiled picks, and replaced him with a yes man who has depleted all of the picks and more and who has assembled a roster of old jump shooters, an injury riddled center, an ancient PF ....all with high contracts.