Nets Are Scorching

This offseason is going to be an exciting one for the New Jersey Nets, but before we can move forward we must look back.  Over the next couple of days, I am going to be looking at the Nets who will (most likely) be back, and review their year, from what they did well to what they didn’t.  Today we are going to look at Kris Humphries.

When the Nets acquired Kris Humphries, everyone kind of shrugged their shoulders.  “One old PF for an ok one,” but then he came out like gangbusters.  He put up over 20 points a few times, and lead the Nets to a few big wins.  However, he wasn’t able to maintain his high shooting percentage and he sort of fell off towards the end of the year.

The Positives

Aggressiveness

One of the things that Kris Humphries brought to this team was an attitude.  “A swagger” if you will.  He was always the guy giving up a hard foul on a team running up the score, fighting for lose balls, and just being scrappy.  I think his interview after the Nets win against the Clippers sums it up nicely.

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As someone who gets the Daily News delivered to my front door every day, let me tell how annoyed I was to see the newspaper ask its readers to photoshop LeBron James in various scenes around Manhattan. You know, because LeBron is coming to the Knicks. Duh. On a side note, inside the paper, they used a photo of Nathan’s in Coney Island as a potential lure for LeBron (can’t get hot dogs like that in Cleveland). Memo to Daily News, Nathan’s is in Brooklyn – if LeBron wants Nathans in Manhattan near the Garden, he can wait in beautiful Penn Station.

Anyway, NetsDaily becomes my heroes by offering readers of the site a chance to Photoshop LeBron in a Nets-centric backdrop. I’ll be curious to see what Nets fans come up with.