https://www.netsdaily.com/2024/2/14/24073497/nets-vs-celtics-136-86-jacque-vaughn
All the Nets really had to do this season was be feisty and compete. To represent the “Brooklyn grit” everyone in the organization, all the way up to Sean Marks and Joe Tsai, had vouched for.
The plan is the plan, and it was set in motion when the Nets didn’t trade Mikal Bridges and Dorian Finney-Smith for a combined six first-rounders at the 2023 NBA Trade deadline.
Alright, fine. Go have a fun year, probably missing out on the playoffs — even on their best days, there is not much offensive talent on the roster — but setting yourself up in the long-term. Create buzz. As cliché as it sounds.
Ending the first half of the season by letting a rival drop a 50-bomb on you (FIFTY!) encapsulates how that effort is going. The starting point guard, who’s known this organization longer than any other Net, pretty openly quit on the team. Brooklyn is now 8-23 since December 13. They are 9-26 against teams above .500.
After 17 minutes of game-time on Wednesday night, the Nets had 17 points. It never got better. When Boston’s deep-bench players like Neemias Queta and Oshae Brissett weren’t throwing down windmills, they were hanging on the rim after dunking with both hands.
There are so many fascinating stories in the NBA this season, from these very Celtics to the drama of the Milwaukee Bucks, to the New York Knicks’ ascendance, to the young Oklahoma City Thunder arriving in full force.
Maybe you’re curious about the three-star experiments of the Los Angeles Clippers and Phoenix Suns, or the Denver Nuggets’ quest to repeat, or the Minnesota Timberwolves putting it all together. And LeBron is on the Lakers, by the way.
It would take a hefty, hefty embarrassment for national media — dying to get to the All-Star break as much as the players are — to turn their attention to Eastern Conference’s 11-seed on the last day of the first half of the season. Well, the Nets produced such an embarrassment.
It’s the type of loss where changes soon follow. It’s the type of loss where such media will ask, “What is going on in Brooklyn?”
Nobody has the answers.
As a treat for their dominant start to the season, Boston held a carnival at TD Garden on Valentine’s Day. And the Nets were the traveling circus.
by Ok-Platform-7719
2 Comments
I told my niece what a great back to back
Beaten at home by 10 last night and then killed in the garden today
Just didn’t expect it this bad
I love the team but we should have traded for our picks back and what ever else we could have gotten and blow up for a couple years and get great lottery picks.
we need a real coach