NyCeEvO wrote:MGrand15 wrote:Man, this first half of the season has been a complete disaster. The only positive was when Dinwiddie carried the team against bad teams for that short stretch.
Outside of that we had:
Rodi's DV case
Kyrie breaking his face and missing some training camp + preseason
China debacle
Chandler's PED suspension
Harris playing a ton of off-season minutes in the Olympics
LeVert surgery
Kyrie shoulder impingement
Little to no improvement from LeVert, Allen, Pinson or Musa
Prince playing worse than advertised
Right now we're on par with the Chicago Bulls in Net RTG. Poor execution and effort has been a theme all season. That's just not Nets basketball.
I know some of y'all are gonna cry about this being an overreaction to a loss against the best team in the league. It's been happening all year. Things are gonna have to change QUICKLY if Kenny doesn't want to get on the hot seat. Which IMO is basically the worst case scenario for this season.
Good recap of the season thus far. Yeah, it’s been pretty disappointing.
On day 1, Kyrie showed how much better he was than every other active Net player. I’d forgotten the type of talent a star can have on our team. He’s a A-tier star playing with mostly D-tier players.
I’d put Spencer right on the cusp of B-tier. (He’s a B when he has his head on straight and a C when he’s not. Unfortunately, C-tier Spencer shows up more often than I’d like.) And since Din has a similar yet worse skill set than Kyrie, they don’t complement each other well. As a result, we get diminishing returns when they play together.
I’d put Allen firmly in the C-tier. He plays good defense but he still lacks almost any semblance of an offensive game. Outside of alley-oops and finishing shovel passes when he’s next to the rim, he looks scared or awkward whenever he has the ball and actually decides to make a move.
Joe has been bad overall. It wouldn’t surprise me if playing in China overworked him. I could see him start to pick it back up in the 2nd half though.
It pains me to say that Caris is definitely D-tier. I’ve been adamant since the 2018 offseason that he needed/needs a jumper to take his game to the next level. As a result of not having a reliable jumpshot, teams overload the paint on his drives and he ends up taking tougher than normal shots. His PER and TS% have gone down every season he’s been in the league. In today’s NBA, you must be able to shoot consistently to be a threat, unless you’re insanely talented as a playmaker and defender like Ben Simmons (who could even be much more dominant if he too had a jumpshot).
I think GT is probably the only one who has been (slightly) better than advertised.
I like Clayton too, but he’s a rookie so I won’t judge him that much.
In short, even the core that Kyrie mentioned hasn’t been all that good. If Spencer regresses in any way, this could be an ugly season.
