The Official 2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets Season Watch Thread (20-62, #1)

[mef730]

  Adrian Wojnarowski
‏@WojVerticalNBA
Free agent guard Randy Foye has agreed on a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell @TheVertical.

It gets better. This guy is awful. Shot 35% from the field on OKC on only wide-open looks. Can't defend anyone. Excellent move by Marks.

Randy Foye? What kind of idiot would have drafted that guy, anyway?



Mike

[saltlover]

  Adrian Wojnarowski
‏@WojVerticalNBA
Free agent guard Randy Foye has agreed on a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell @TheVertical.

It gets better. This guy is awful. Shot 35% from the field on OKC on only wide-open looks. Can't defend anyone. Excellent move by Marks.

Randy Foye? What kind of idiot would have drafted that guy, anyway?



Mike

Not Ainge if that's what you're referring to.  He knew that Sebastian Telfair was a star in the making.

[Yoki_IsTheName]

So, Brooklyn is taking fliers on young players to see what they can get from them. And are signing veterans to one year deals as well, maybe to help the young guys on how to properly become and NBA player?

I think this is what Brooklyn should do. They are basically stuck for two years, might as well find some diamonds in the rough while they're at it.

[Emmette Bryant]

http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nba-am-brooklyn-abandons-rebuild/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed

[Adelaide Celt]

So Anthony Bennett and Randy Foye round out the roster. Not quite Summer League scrubs but close enough.

Jeremy Lin/ Greivis Vasquez/ Isaiah Whitehead
Bojan Bogdanovic/ Sean Kilpatrick/ Joe Harris
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson/ Caris LeVert/ Randy Foye
Trevor Booker/ Luis Scola/ Anthony Bennett
Brook Lopez/ Justin Hamilton/ Chris McCullough

Allen Crabbe probably would've been the 2nd or 3rd best player on the team if they'd got him. Bad luck 

[ashanm10]

So Anthony Bennett and Randy Foye round out the roster. Not quite Summer League scrubs but close enough.

Jeremy Lin/ Greivis Vasquez/ Isaiah Whitehead
Bojan Bogdanovic/ Sean Kilpatrick/ Joe Harris
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson/ Caris LeVert/ Randy Foye
Trevor Booker/ Luis Scola/ Anthony Bennett
Brook Lopez/ Justin Hamilton/ Chris McCullough

Allen Crabbe probably would've been the 2nd or 3rd best player on the team if they'd got him. Bad luck 

thats actually not a bad group, until one or two get plauged with injuries xd

[TheSundanceKid]

http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nba-am-brooklyn-abandons-rebuild/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed

I think that article was a little uninformed. His suggestion is basically keep going down onw road and never consider other options. The Nets struck out on Plan A, actually it was probably there plan M or X... and now they are taking on professional guys to round out the roster. It's about culture as much as anything. They are well positioned to take salary dumps during the season for extra picks and they aren't locked into long term money. There are still guys on the roster to develop such as RHJ and Bogdanovic, that PF kid and Levert. They are making sure they keep a level head and are smart in their moves, nothing rash.

All of which fits for us as we care most about this year's pick!

[SHAQATTACK]

Lopez will truely be a one man team this year.

[Adelaide Celt]

Tibor Pleiss would rather play in Turkey than try out for the Nets.

http://www.netsdaily.com/2016/9/11/12877904/tibor-pleiss-may-work-out-with-brooklyn-nets

Here's some more fun reading material 

http://www.netsdaily.com/2016/9/5/12799430/and-now-the-most-pessimistic-harshest-assessment-of-the-nets

[mef730]

Tibor Pleiss would rather play in Turkey than try out for the Nets.

http://www.netsdaily.com/2016/9/11/12877904/tibor-pleiss-may-work-out-with-brooklyn-nets

Here's some more fun reading material 

http://www.netsdaily.com/2016/9/5/12799430/and-now-the-most-pessimistic-harshest-assessment-of-the-nets

TP for resuscitating this thread.

Mike

[slamtheking]

So Anthony Bennett and Randy Foye round out the roster. Not quite Summer League scrubs but close enough.

Jeremy Lin/ Greivis Vasquez/ Isaiah Whitehead
Bojan Bogdanovic/ Sean Kilpatrick/ Joe Harris
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson/ Caris LeVert/ Randy Foye
Trevor Booker/ Luis Scola/ Anthony Bennett
Brook Lopez/ Justin Hamilton/ Chris McCullough

Allen Crabbe probably would've been the 2nd or 3rd best player on the team if they'd got him. Bad luck 

thats actually not a bad group, until one or two get plauged with injuries xd

it's bad.  only player you can point to on the entire roster who could start for any but the worst teams in the league is Lopez.  even then, there's only Lin and Booker who might actually start for even the worst franchises

[LarBrd33]

Lopez will truely be a one man team this year.

unless Anthony Bennett is suddenly a superstar. 

[The One]

Lopez will truely be a one man team this year.

I fear Lin could be a fly in the ping pong balls ointment.

[Moranis]

I'd say that looks like a upper teens, low 20's win team, which should put them right there in contention for the best lottery odds.  Now maybe their young guys really impress and Lin is just what they need (along with Lopez staying healthy), but even then I can't see them winning more than 30 games.  Really just going to be a long season for Brooklyn, which shapes us nicely for Boston.

[saltlover]

Lopez will truely be a one man team this year.

I fear Lin could be a fly in the ping pong balls ointment.

I don't.  He might go off and be the key player in some wins you remember. But he's also going to be the primary cause of at least as many losses that you forget.