Moving on with my NBA Season Previews, I will next look at the Brooklyn Nets. According to the Brooklyn Nets 2016 NBA Title Betting Odds at Bodog Basketball, the Nets have been listed at +20000 odds to win the NBA Title. Here is my Brooklyn Nets 2016 Season Preview.
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Last year the Nets felt the key to their season was with a plethora of NBA veterans. Well it got them to the playoffs, but not past the first round. They did pay well in the series vs Atlanta, but still they just didn’t have the horses to get past the stronger Hawks. Now the Nets have revamped their roster in hopes that it gets them get back to the playoffs and hopefully past the first round.
Deron Williams is gone and many feel that the move may be a sign of the Nets heading the other way, rather than forward. Brook Lopez is now the player the Nets will build around, after he had a solid season in which he scored 17.2 ppg and 7.4 rpg. The problem with Lopez has been injuries, so the Nets brought in Andrea Bargnani, who averaged 14.8 ppg for the Knicks last year for some added depth.
Also part of the core of this team is Thaddeus Young and Joe Johnson who the Nets made it a point to hold onto this year and both are slated to be in the starting lineup. Young was brought in from Minnesota last year and played 28 games form the Nets, scoring 13.8 ppg. Joe Johnson played in 80 from Brooklyn last year and as very average for them, scoring just 14.4 ppg on the season.
Jarrett Jack scored 12.0 ppg and dished out 4.7 apg last year and will now be running the show at the point, while sharing time with Shane Larkin. Jack does have an issue with Turnovers though. Rounding out the starting five will be Bojan Bogdanovic, who is a machine from beyond the arc as he hit 91 threes last year.
The Nets did trade away Mason Plumlee to the Trailblazers for a draft pick and used that pick to take Rondae-Hollis Jefferson, who was one of the best small forwards in the draft. Also, the Nets drafted Chris Mcullough to give them some depth at the forward spot.
The Nets are not a team that is built for playoffs this year, but they are in the weak East so anything is possible. Still the Nets are pretty much building for next year and the first step was getting rid of Williams and his big contract. Then they added some young talent through the draft and kept their core of players in Lopez, Young and Johnson. THe Nets will not be a terrible team this year, but I don’t think they will reach the playoffs again. That will have to wait for next year.
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