Convince me that the Nets will win 40 games next season. Feel free to get creative. Acts of God aren't usually creative.
I can't do it over the internet, but my plan would be to hit you in the head repeatedly until you are sufficiently brain-damaged to believe that the Nets will win 40 games this season.
If it were possible for sufficiently angry people to do that sort of thing over the Internet I suspect we'd all be in big trouble. Sounds like the premise of a horror movie.
"Trollus Ex Machina"
Tag-line:
"You can try not to feed the trolls, but who will stop them feeding on you?"
OR
"And you thought the comment section was a blood bath BEFORE ...."
lol. not bad.
The only way the Nets get decent is if two things happen:
1) A couple of their young players are hidden gems and have breakout seasons
2) Some of the teams ahead of them (Pistons, Charlotte, Knicks, etc) underachieve/have injuries.
Basically if the Nets players are who we think they are, they will be a very bad team. Basketball is the most predictable sport; you don't have farm systems that polish and produce so many emerging surprises like baseball. You don't have the general malaise caused by the NFL and NHL's strict salary caps which lead to a ton of mediocre teams which can be leapfrogged.
In the NBA the big picture is a lot simpler, the surprise playoff teams usually have good young talent fueled by high draft picks. Thanks to Billy King, the Nets do not have those assets. And thanks to the general disaster he caused, good free agents don't want to go there. No amount of Brook Lopez beasting or good coaching will fill holes caused by third-stringers playing heavy minutes.