i wouldnt say a lot....but they dont need prime pierce/kg. Deron/Joe Johnson/Lopez are all in their primes. It's a good mix. Kirilenko is not an old man and he's just going to be asked to be a role player anyway.
I don't get why people keep mentioning the fact that there is only one ball on the court so this won't work. The Nets have a collection of unselfish talent. Only thing that may hold them back is coaching.
http://www.netsdaily.com/2013/7/12/...-chances-i-sign-with-brooklyn-nets-98-percent Not so fast?! Morey get her done! Room exception! Sign and trade! Do something!
Brooklyn 2013 = Lakers 2012? The similarities are striking to me in terms of philosophy. Scoop up every older player willing to play for less with a cost no object approach and buy a championship. Have folks already forgotten the projections for Nash/Metta/DW/Kobe/Pau? Can I think Deron/Kirlenko/Garnett/Johnson/Lopez/Pierce/Terry will end up the same? Without a operational crystal ball, who can say? But the chemistry implosion model definitely has merit. As far an underhandedness, sure, their could be a pile of rubles in a foreign account with Kirlenko's name on it. Does Stern have the Russian mafia connections to prove it? Probably not. On the surface, it does look suspicious. For Houston fans, its a moot point. NJ isnt getting out of the east. But if I were NYK or Indy, I might be either jealous, suspicious or both. But definitely worried.
main reason why Lakers failed so bad was because they were injury riddled. Nash broke his arm in the 2nd game of the season I thinkn. Howard was never himself and still recovering from his back. Pau had nagging injuries. Kobe with the injury late in the season. After the ASB, LAL actually had a really good record and sneaked into the 7th seed. Nets have pretty reliable and injury free players. I think they will be good. Their players are all pretty unselfish and share the ball. No ball stoppers so with talent alone, they should be in the ECF. We'll see how Drose comes back, what Indiana does with Granger, and if the Heat will make anymore moves.
I beg to differ. Injuries played a part sure, but not the bulk of it. Chemistry was the main part IMO, or lack of in their case. But I am not going to turn this into a Laker thread. When was the last time that many stars ego's were thrown together on one team? This team is either going to be fireworks or nuclear meltdown. I think the odds favor the later.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Mikhail Prokhorov: "It gives me great pleasure to welcome Andrei to the Nets."</p>— RealGM (@RealGM) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealGM/statuses/355790649301282816">July 12, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I'm telling all of you now, this will keep happening, Nets will break the NBA rules year after year and the NBA won't be able to find any dirt because a large portion of Prokhorov's money is probably untraceable unlike every other owner in the league. Just wait until Prokhorov signs someone like Lamarcus Aldridge in free agency for the midlevel and then convinces everyone that he just wanted to play in the big apple for a winning team when he's really getting millions wired in some hidden Swiss bank account. I'm telling you this will happen in the future. No doubt about it. Its going to be a huge scandal.
Just look at that image. Prokhorov, the multi-billionaire, looks like he's wearing a cheap suit, with a total disconnect between his eyes, dead like a shark's, and his smile, which looks like it's held up with Superglue. Kirilenko looks completely different. Like he's stunned. Not like he's stunned to only get a way below market contract from the Nets, but a stunned look one might have after winning the lottery and trying to hold on to the glee, not showing too much of it, because he doesn't want everyone else to feel bad about his good fortune. Too weird.
