Nets Are Scorching

All Nets fans want Kevin Pritchard to be GM.

How about looking into acquiring indianas Troy Murphy? He's a double double guy, from Jersey and has an expiring contract. He's 6'11 and would be great alongside Brook. He'd also help give favors time to grow into the position. Hump and a pick or two?

Who has more say, the GM or the President? If the Dave D piece is right, and Marks is the GM no matter what, you'd hope he is given the ability to go out and perform, because all the evidence says Ferry and King are not great talent evaluators nor are they great team builders.

The off-season moves are fine. They did not overpay and waste all their cap space. Outlaw and farmar are nice pickups and the team should win 30 games next year. I hope they don't make the playoffs so they can get a better draft pick. This is a rebuilding process with a new owner, have patience, so far they are doing things right, preserving cap space, and not giving out awful contracts. Billy King at GM would be a mistake.

Billy King might have been the MOST inept GM/President outside of Isiah Thomas.

Awful Awful Awful move if they go that route!

Louis Amundson? You have got to be s******g me. He's the poor man's Kris Humphries. But unless we pay him $50 mil, that blunder would pale beside not hiring Pritchard.
Don't be surprised if this team tops out at 45 wins this decade-- stupid is not the recipe for success in the NBA.

I have been reading about Al Jefferson getting traded to the Utah Jazz. How come the Nets do not seem to be getting involved in Al Jefferson talks. He is a dominant big man who is only 25 and although he is a year away from knee surgery he had a very good season last year. They could play him at the four and him and lopez would probably be the two best big man combo in teh league. Why not go for him?

I was down on our off-season moves at first, but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. If we want Favors to be the player of the future, it doesn't make too much sense to bring in a Boozer/Lee for 5-6 years.

While we're overpaying guys (which is inevitable in this league), those deals aren't so outrageous that those players are far from unmovable. Likewise, the deals are predominately 3 and 4 year deals (with the exception of Outlaw which is 5). It's not like the Nets can just sit on $30 million in cap space.

A lot of people are saying to try and take Scola, but where does that leave our team? We'd lose the rest of our salary cap and we would just be paying a 30 year old player 10+ million to start for a year or so and then cede the spot to Favors when he's ready.

Dre- That's a very good point that most people ignore. 12 wins is abysmal, but I think everyone would agree that the Nets were far more talented than a team of that ineptitude. A lot of people were saying that last year that they were shocked at how bad our record was because of the talent on the team. Our team was so depleted at the start of the season that Bobby Simmons was getting playing time.

Winning (and losing) is contagious. We started off 0-18, fired our coach and brought in a GM to coach who had no idea how to coach a team. Something like that is going to destroy the morale of the team. Once you start off that bad, there's no hope for the rest of the season. If we played .500 basketball the rest of the season, we would have had 32 wins. (no way that was happening with all the turmoil that was going on- we ended up playing close to .200) It also doesnt help that Brook Lopez is the only player last year who played in all of the team's games.

It should only take about 40 or so wins to get that 8th spot. 41 made it last year and there's no teams that didn't make the playoffs that made any huge jump to take the spot, and there's a good chance Cleveland doesn't make it back to the playoffs.

Toronto (9th team) and Cleveland are much worse than they were last year, Milwaukee/Charlotte (6th/7th) are the same/slightly worse. Chicago made a big jump, but that's not the team the Nets will have to fight to make the playoffs. Most likely it will be Nets, Knicks, Pacers and Cavs fighting for the last playoff spot (or few depending on how Bucks/Bobcats play)

i think the Nets will have no problem getting into the playoffs this year as long as they stay healthy. If they would have been healthy and had a real coach last year, they would have easily had at least 25 wins. With the improvments to the roster and good new coach i think they can easily get 40 wins and sneak into the playoffs

I think the Nets will be lucky to win more that 25 games this coming season unless everyone has a career year, and that includes Avery Johnson having his best year coaching.