Tari, maybe you shouldn't've listened to Mom. Or was it your agent? Or both? At the beginning of the season it took him a few games to get his head out of his ass when the contract extension didn't happen. I'm not entirely sure his head has been completely screwed on right since. But he is one of the big reasons we're so hit-and-miss as a team. Overcoming the loss of FVV? Difficult. The loss of Khal Drogo? Difficult-er. Relying so much on players just because they're tall and are supposed to shoot three pointers? When Tari or Jabari have bad games? Keep'em in! When Reed makes a mistake?
Our playoffs success will depend on Jabari and Tari's contribution. KD, Sengun, and Reed provides gravity with their scoring. Jabari and Tari will get open looks. If they shoot the 3 well, we have a fighters chance
Him taking the defender off the dribble is painful to watch. Cant get by them at all and then resorts to a step back middy brick.
It's almost as bad as his on-ball defense this season. He has been absolutely putrid on the perimeter.
They have no reason to tank next year with the Rockets owning that pick, I think they will do their best to be competitive, at least not in the bottom 10. I don't know who they sign but they have $85m in 1A space to play with and are likely to get a top 4 pick this year with 7th currently their floor. I guess there's always the new lottery rules to look forward to, maybe they help. (Next season will show why Stone made the trade for those PHX picks)
How good can they be next year though? Can they leapfrog any of the top 10 in the East to be a play-in team? And Indiana will get Halliburton back(plus a top pick), so you figure they'll be better than Brooklyn. Hell, even the Wizards could be better if they're able to stay healthy(always a huge if with Anthony Davis).
We already got benefit from the PHX picks, got KD with the 10th pick. If we didnt do the deal we would just have one nets 2025 pick and one 2026 nets swap left. If we traded the Nets 2025 pick for KD we would just have 2026 Nets swap I would rather have 3 assets than 1 left. Also Nets having no reason to tank that 2025 and 2026 nets picks and swap would also not be good if the trade didnt happen.
Someone has to lose. The Bulls and the Wizards are the only bad teams in the East that still have their 2027 pick. The West has 3 bad teams that still have their picks. While I doubt the Rockets get a Top 4 pick, I don't think there is any guarantee that the Nets pick is not in the bottom 10. The Nets tried to win in 23-24, but still were the 9th-worst team prior to gutting their team. I'd guess that they are about 7th or 8th worst as in 23-24 they started with a better team than they have now. With all the traded picks in 2027 (i.e., less tanking), I think it will be much harder for teams without depth to weather injuries.
It's really hard to say how good they can be - really depends on what they do in terms of free agency and where their draft pick lands but I don't believe they are a bottom of the league team again next season - too many teams are willing to be bad for a team that has no incentive to be below them in the standings. I really don't think the new lottery rules change that. The draft is and always has been the best way to acquire top tier, cost controlled talent. Teams will still have incentive to be bad.
Of course, but so many have complained about the trade, thinking that Brooklyn would have been just as bad as they have been without control of their picks - that's just not the case. They could have been a play in team in the terrible East fairly easily. Those picks wouldn't have been early ones but picks in the middle part of the draft. This coming season will show that - they have no incentive to be bad and that pick will land in the middle of the draft, nowhere near the lottery - barring some catastrophic injury.
Perhaps not. But it should still be around 15th. Which could skew safe role player that fills a need instead of potential. Which cost controlled depth is as important than ever in the nba.
