This team is really in trouble which is great for us. Don't know if anybody saw Jarett Jack's post game interview but he looked borderline depressed. That's exactly the kind of mindset we want these guys to have because it will only start to snowball from there.
For the life of me I do not understand what Billy King is doing.
Count me as one of the few people who actually thought, at first, that the Pierce/KG trade made sense for the Nets, even with all the picks they gave up. Brooklyn had a useful core of vets, and it was very logical to think that adding polished pros like Piece and KG could vault the team into the top 3 in the East. They also unloaded some terrible contracts to the Celtics. There were a lot of people, including many on this board, who dead-panned the trade at the time. I wasn't a huge fan of it either.
The most puzzling thing about Billy King is that even when he might be doing something logical (like the Pierce/KG trade), he doubles down with an absurdly illogical misstep. For the Nets, this idiotic move was hiring Jason Kidd to be head coach. If your strategy is to build an older, veteran team to push for playoff relevancy then you do not hire a completely unproven ROOKIE head coach who is a former player roughly the same age as the older veterans on that team. You hire someone like Flip Saunders (RIP) or George Karl or hell even Larry Brown. You don't hire Jason Kidd. That is too much of an experiment.
So all that blew up in Billy King's face in 2014 with Kidd getting out of dodge and Pierce leaving soon after. King couldn't even fully tank in 2015 because of the pick swap remaining with the Hawks from the Joe Johnson deal (arguably King's worst move as GM). Further, he found a way to trade KG but still has not moved Joe Johnson as if somehow JJ is going to magically play his way into making the trade for him worth it.
If I was the Nets GM I would do whatever I could to move Lopez and Johnson and Jack right now. Hell do what the owner really wants and bring in 5 more guys from Russia. Get rid of every player that has the Billy King taint. You can't be much worse, you are losing your pick now and in 2018, you need to find players somewhere. Get rid of Lionel Hollins and give an assistant like Jay Larranaga a shot at a head spot.
But no that will not happen - we are going to watch this ship sink with Billy King as the captain. How this guy gets paid to run an NBA franchise is beyond me.
Topic: Official 2015-16 Brooklyn Nets Season Watch Thread (21-59, 3rd slot as of 4/12) (Read 700117 times)