i saw this last night. it may hurt, but they’re not wrong. what have the nets done all year to make anyone believe they’re capable of more than 8 or 9 wins? nobody has a “grudge” against the nets so it’s not like they have a reason to be anything but objective. we’re just an awful team right now.

So, we’re talking about 8 to 12 wins. From the potential 20 wins that we expected in pre-season. I don’t see the big deal here.

I made the same point too…. about how our record can deter FA’s who wants to win a championship from coming to our team.

I predict that we will tie the sixers record with 9 wins. I really hope they can prove me wrong.

…like Thorn says. IT’S ABOUT THE MONEY!! The Nets will sign one major FA this offseason. The FAs know where the stability is. Despite the Nets decisions these past few years, it’s always been about 2010. The FAs aren’t stupid. They know Thorn’s track record…whether you think he’s good or not, he has respect around the league. To me it’ll come down to who the coach is. Whoever the coach is will determine if we end up with Rudy Gay or Dwayne Wade(if he decides his Miami era is finished).

Too many people call the team pathetic as if they thought they were going to be any good this year. Everyone expected a sad season, but yet it’s become a major story that it actually happened.

Again, to me, the people who matter, they know why this past season happened. Not too many teams survive with inexperienced players, a coach with no experience, injuries, and expiring contract players. All of these areas will be corrected this off-season. Our young guys are getting experience despite the poor play of the whole team. We’ll have a new coach and new owner. We’ll be signing at least one big FA, and also getting solid role players.

The Nets are not going to finish with less than 9 wins. That I know will not happen. They only need 4 more wins here to dodge that bullet, and that is very possible even with one more month left in the regular season. Unless, they lose all their remaining games, they will not break that record.

Barkley said that the Nets will win 9 (not 8) games and tie the record. Of course Barkley says so many things.

What they don’t tell us, is that its not the team as much as the Coach responsible for losing many of these games.
They have enough talent in Humphries and TWill, but Kiki refuses to use them properly. TWill is a Stud and should have been developed earlier this year. Hump should play the entire Q4 of every close game.

As long as Kiki insists on giving Yi more than 30-42 minutes every game and TWill 15 minutes or less, then they won’t with 10 games.

As far as free agency goes, if the Nets get Evan Turner, then with the addition of another FA and a REAL coach, the Nets would be a 45-53 win team (as long as Yi didn’t play more than 12 minutes).
DLee will be one of the top 1-2 free agents who actually switches teams, so all discussion should be with this in mind.