The Official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets Season Watch Thread (20-62, #1)

[mr. dee]

Today is a pretty good day for our BKN pick

- Wizards won
- Heat won
- Wolves won

The brings them a tie with the Nets. We just need to see the Nets lose against OKC.

[The One]

Just listened to Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux...

Some points they brought out:

1.  They are surviving on math offensively....just chuck up threes and some have to go in.
2.  They can't stop anyone defensively.
3.  Lopez is a perpetual injury concern.
4.  Scouting will catch up to their three point only offense.

So it would seem they are going to get worse as time goes on.

[chambers]

Just listened to Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux...

Some points they brought out:

1.  They are surviving on math offensively....just chuck up threes and some have to go in.
2.  They can't stop anyone defensively.
3.  Lopez is a perpetual injury concern.
4.  Scouting will catch up to their three point only offense.

So it would seem they are going to get worse as time goes on.

sounds about right to me. I would also add that Jeremy Lin is going to ultimately hurt their 3 point chuck and pray scheme. He holds the ball up too much and doesn't kick out enough help their 3 pt offense.
Losing Thad Young will be a big deal to them down the stretch. He was an ironman and extremely reliable on both ends. Ala Brandon Bass in 2010. Losing a player of that caliber on a team that poor,now that's how your team gets worse.

Jeremy Lin is a trade asset. Inflate his numbers on an awful team, sign him to what some dumb GM might think is a good deal in one years time when the cap reality sets in, and hope to get a first round pick out of him for your work.

[Phantom255x]

Umm guys, the Nets are beating the Thunder 51-43 right now..

[GratefulCs]

Umm guys, the Nets are beating the Thunder 51-43 right now..

thunder with the lead now!

[Phantom255x]

Umm guys, the Nets are beating the Thunder 51-43 right now..

thunder with the lead now!

Yep great to see. Now let's hope they hold it.

[GratefulCs]

Umm guys, the Nets are beating the Thunder 51-43 right now..

thunder with the lead now!

Yep great to see. Now let's hope they hold it.

Hope and pray

honestly, the thunder/nets game is way more important than C's/warriors

[mqtcelticsfan]

I'm beginning to think some people may have overreacted to the first few Brooklyn games.

[TheSundanceKid]

I'm beginning to think some people may have overreacted to the first few Brooklyn games.

Surely that's not possible? People don't make irrational judgements on small sample sizes do they?

[Big333223]

Through 12 games, they're on pace for 27 wins which would've been the 5th worst record in the league last year. I expect that's about where they'll wind up.

[Phantom255x]

Through 12 games, they're on pace for 27 wins which would've been the 5th worst record in the league last year. I expect that's about where they'll wind up.

Fine with that. It's a DEEP DRAFT. Hopefully a big is available around then. Also hope for some lottery luck lol.

[csfansince60s]

Jeremy Lin is a trade asset. Inflate his numbers on an awful team, sign him to what some dumb GM might think is a good deal in one years time when the cap reality sets in, and hope to get a first round pick out of him for your work.

 I would have agreed with this, and it is a well reasoned thought.

I just read this on RealGM, though, and I think Lin has found a home for life in the BK. ( I have to admit that I have a soft spot for Lin, too, as I attended a lot of his college (home) games, and he's a class kid.)

New York Post wrote:
Jeremy Lin has raised the Nets’ profile — and their bottom line

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The Nets didn’t have much direction — other than possibly straight down — before Marks’ arrival. But fans have been engaged by their grit, and the addition of Lin, one of the biggest social media profiles in the entire NBA, has helped as well.

The Nets have signed a number of new commercial partners, with sources telling The Post a half-dozen of them came on board specifically because of Lin. Neither the NBA nor the Nets provided specific figures for Lin’s jersey sales, but sources in both the league and the team confirmed he’s the team’s leading seller.

Lin finished second in the NBA in jersey sales in 2012, essentially selling more in the three months of Linsanity with the Knicks than all but one NBA star had all season. No Net cracked the top 20 last season, but the uber-popular point guard did despite starting just 13 games for the Hornets in Charlotte, a city with less than one-tenth the population of New York.

[SHAQATTACK]

Through 12 games, they're on pace for 27 wins which would've been the 5th worst record in the league last year. I expect that's about where they'll wind up.

Fine with that. It's a DEEP DRAFT. Hopefully a big is available around then. Also hope for some lottery luck lol.

If stupid Danny takes another small man ......I ll be chewing nails .   Unless it MJ or Kobe reincarnated.....he d better take the best center available .....for once please.

[LarBrd33]

They are undefeated in games where Jeremy Lin and Brook Lopez both play and Lopez gets at least 25 minutes. 

Not looking forward to Lin returning from injury. 

[Vox_Populi]

Portland should win this afternoon.