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You’d have to say that even with a couple of obvious concerns, the Nets Off-Season has been a success, starting from June 23. Their best draft pick in 16 years (think about that!) has been, as his Summer League coach said, “electric” and the development of their second best pick in that timeframe has been exciting. They also got a two-time All-NBA and three-time All-Star who’s still capable of putting up 20 and 7 plus another first round pick in what was essentially a salary dump, much like they did last year. Yeah, they want to win.
Yes, their rim protection and rim running are questionable, Drake Powell has raised questions about his NBA future as a shooter and they didn’t come away with a superstar or even a star in free agency (yet?) but adding Mikel Brown Jr., Julius Randle and another first in Joshua Jefferson while watching Egor Demin dominate has provided, let’s say, some suggestion of hope that the first of many corners has finally been turned.
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And they did it without cutting into their cache of draft picks, although their seeming reluctance to move any of their record cache of second rounders was a bit of a head-scratcher.
The big news of the Off-Season of course is drafting Brown Jr., aka MBJ or ‘Kel. Randle has the resume’ but he’s 31 going on 32. While Brown Jr. has played only two games, both were filled with moments that make it less than crazy to say Brooklyn has a lead guard who can play on either end of the court, score from all angles and throw some passes that makes most fans wonder when they last saw a playmaker like him in black-and-white.
Despite bleating, mostly from pundits, that the Nets should have taken Darius Acuff, he of the “sizzle”, “box office” and “star quality,” over Brown Jr., there’s now increasing if begrudging agreement that the players taken before and after Brown Jr. have shown more flaws than the Nets pick at No. 6.
Acuff’s defense has been as advertised, that is somewhere between awful and non-existent and unlikely to improve any time soon. His scoring (19.5 ppg in four games), by his own admission has been inefficient. In…
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