2016-2017 Brooklyn Nets Season Predictions

[Roy Tarpley]

Now that the roster is basically set (15 guarantee/2 partial), it's time to stop the arm-chair playmaking and weekend warrior jousting and put your +1s where your mouth is. In this challenge, you can make any prediction you want but the one I'll be tabulating and keeping score throughout the season will be:

- Season record
- Traditional stats for Brook Lopez, Jeremy Lin, Trevor Booker, Rondae Hollis Jefferson, Caris Levert, Bojan Bogdanovic, Sean Kilpatrick, and Chris McCullough

We can put up scorecards at the 20 game mark, the All-Star break, and season end, but +1s would be distributed at season end.

If there are major trades or acquisitions, we can adjust accordingly (e.g., late pickup of Lance Stephenson).

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Here are the entries as of 1230 EST 10/27/16.

- If you waffled by providing a range of wins, I used the mean and rounded up.
- If you equivocated with a lot of jibber jabber but didn't provide a definitive number or range, you were not included.
- Feel free to add/change your guess as much as you want before the tipoff of the season opener. No penalty, except that you will branded as spineless. Just kidding.

fafan 48
pistolpete1947 43
3andone 42
GoodDayLA 42
sutton 41
Travers 41
hood30 41
antique 0o0 40
Kswiss 40
KM6 40
sprost 40
uballer 39
ChokeFasncists 37
imanshar 35
3pt_Chucker 35
lorenzomax 35
SV1113 34
Netaman 33
Hello Brooklyn 33
Roy Tarpley 32
Paradise 32
DeRoma 32
Claud 32
swijayas 31
soulfist 31
Vae Victus 30
FullContact 30
jbeachboy 30
lin is ok 30
lookabove 29
LostInACrowd 29
ESPN's revised prediction 29
CalamityX12 29
brook 29
FlipFlopShot 28
ioeve 28
shakendfries 28
gafun 28
Mkdaman1818 28
bws94 28
Nyloncalculus.com 27
NyCeEvo 27
Lamak 27
JohnStockton 27
Papi_swav 27
DarkXaero 27
Mkdaman1818 26
Curns13 26
13th Man 25
tonman 25
Mosdefinition 25
Prokorov 24
DaddyCool19 24
Keith Van Horn 23
FiveThirtyEight.com 23
Ror1997 22
MrDollarBills 22
Westgate Sports Book 20.5
MaxZaslofskyJr 20
ESPN.com early prediction 20
Pinnacle Sports 19.5
Chuck Everett 19
TheNetsFan 18
Net Sentence 18
Wes-J 18
Chris4Vikes 18
dantheman74 9

[Roy Tarpley]

Season record: 32-50

Player stats: PTS/REB/AST/FG/3PT/FT
BL: 19/7/1/53/00/80
JL: 18/3/8/44/35/80
TB: 9/8/1/50/33/67
RHJ: 8/7/2/47/31/71
CL: 7/2/2/42/35/79
BB: 10/3/1/44/37/83
SK: 12/2/1/46/35/89
CM: 7/4/0.5/42/35/56

[13th Man]

15 (floor) to 30 (ceiling) wins. The current Nets roster is the worst in the league imo.

I wouldn't even consider this a rebuilding year, more like wiping the slate clean to set up a new cultural foundation and also coaching foundation with Atkinson. The next few years will be a painful, but is inescapable given the situation they're in.

Doesn't mean that it cannot be a successful year if the Nets can develop the young players, implement a good coaching system and positive culture.

[RJ 24]

Season record: 34-48

Player stats: PTS/REB/AST/FG/3PT/FT
BL: 19/7/1/53/00/80
JL: 18/3/8/44/35/80
TB: 9/8/1/50/33/67
RHJ: 8/7/2/47/31/71
CL: 7/2/2/42/35/79
BB: 10/3/1/44/37/83
SK: 12/2/1/46/35/89
CM: 7/4/0.5/42/35/56

34 wins?

Are you feeling okay?

[imanshar]

35 wins

[CalamityX12]

29 wins

and the team will change their name to "Brooklyn Projects"

[Prokorov]

After the Foye/Bennet signings our 15 man roster looks set barring a surprise trade. So my predictions are based off a roster of:

PG: Lin, Grevis, Whitehead
SG: Bogs, Foye, Kilpatrick, Harris
SF: Hollis-Jefferson, LeVert
PF: Booker, MCullough, Bennett
C: Lopez, Scola, Hamilton

24-58 sounds about right.

We have 1 legit borderlin all-star in Lopez. We have Lin who is probably a legit NBA starter or hopefully he can be...

and then we have 13 bench players. I like foye, he gives is a 2 way player, we dont really have many/any of those. We have alot of shooters, but alot of them arent good enough to play (i.e. harris) or dont defend (bogs, skill, scola).

will be interesting. i hope atkinson defines roles day 1 and lets guys play through bad play. the toughest thing with this roster is you have like 8 or 9 bench guys of similar level. who plays and who doesnt? that was an issue last year were we yanked guys in and out like a merry go round.

id put our floor at 12 wins and ceiling at 35 with a likely mark of between 22-26 wins

im not goign to predict stats, cause honestly i have no idea who is going to even start. we have so many guys who are the same level player

[Netaman]

I'll be optimistic and say 33 wins. I think our PG situation is hugely improved and it's doubtful anyone we start this year will be as limited of players as Wayne Ellington, Donald Sloan, and many others were last year. Sure TRob, Reed, and Larkin flashed from time to time, but there's a reason nobody wanted them last year and few were in demand this year. The savy (yet unsexy) vets we signed this year will help us win a lot of those games we had no right blowing last year.

That said, the number of wins is irrelevant, the main metric of success this year is how the young guys develop. Right now Rondae is the only young player we have who would get minutes on a playoff team. Need to see him develop further and hopefully see a few others join him.

It would also be great to see development for our younger vets, because right now you wouldn't consider Bogdonovic and Lin NBA starters but they certainly have enough ability that they could be by the end of this year.

[3pt_chucker]

I'm thinking somewhere in the 30's in wins barring a bunch of injuries.

Floor = 31 Ceiling = 39.

[shakendfries]

Wins : 24-32

The Nets finish with a slightly improved record from the 15-16 campaign, as the experienced starting lineup is able to find its rhythm by the start of the new year. Lin has his moments and emerges as a decent PG, but it is Bojan who experiences a truly breakout season. As the Nets approach the precipice of respectability, Bojan and Lopez are traded to the Phoenix Suns for Tyson Chandler, Archie Goodwin, and two first round picks at the trade deadline.

PG - Lin, Vasquez
SG - Bojan, Skil/Foye
SF - RHJ, Harris
PF - Booker, CMC/Bennett
C - Lopez, Scola/Hamilton

Lin does a solid job and finishes the season as an average starting PG
Bojan has a breakout season
RHJ emerges as an elite perimeter defender + slashing threat (finishing at the rim)
Trevor Booker's stats won't show how important he is to the team as his screens become an invaluable asset to Lin's effectiveness
Chris McCullough surpasses Anthony Bennett in the rotation and proves to be a solid contributor off the bench
Brook Lopez once again proves to be a reliable interior scoring presence and rim protector

Whitehead emerges as a backup PG in the second half of the season
LeVert - the Nets don't see much of LeVert, who is behind Harris in the rotation and will spend most of the season in the D-League

[Roy Tarpley]

15 (floor) to 30 (ceiling) wins. The current Nets roster is the worst in the league imo.

I wouldn't even consider this a rebuilding year, more like wiping the slate clean to set up a new cultural foundation and also coaching foundation with Atkinson. The next few years will be a painful, but is inescapable given the situation they're in.

Doesn't mean that it cannot be a successful year if the Nets can develop the young players, implement a good coaching system and positive culture.

Haha, what's with these huge floor to ceiling windows?! Grow some balls and make a prediction!

If people use ranges, I'm going to use the mean -- so in your case, 22.5 rounded up to 23 wins.

[13th Man]

Lol ok. I'll say 25 then just to be an optimist

[Claud]

Put me down for 32 wins if Lopez/RHJ/Lin play the majority of games.

I think we have an outside shot at a low playoffs seed if EVERYTHING goes perfect. Meaning no injuries to key players, eastern conference sucks, development of players, coaching, etc.

Lopez: 20Ppg/8Rpg/2Bpg
Lin: 17Ppg/7Apg
RHJ: 10Ppg/7Rpg/3Apg/2Spg/1Bpg
Bogs: 15Ppg/ 38% from 3pt
Booker: 10Ppg/10Rpg/1Bpg
CM: 8PPG/5RPG/ 36% FROM 3PT

[Chuck Everett]

19-63. Unless the team is totally healthy, all of these guys would need career years to get the Nets to 30 wins.

[MrDollarBills]

19 to 24 wins bare minimum, that includes health being decent. I think the sum might be greater than the parts if we're going to be playing team oriented basketball and defense first. Guys will be very motivated on this roster.

If Levert is wallowing on "the island" all year long then the Thad Young trade will a colossal blunder. You don't trade starters for kids who can't break the rotation on a team already devoid of talent.

[MrDollarBills]

I'm thinking somewhere in the 30's in wins barring a bunch of injuries.

Floor = 31 Ceiling = 39.

if this comes true it would be cause for celebration

[Keith Van Horn]

wow some of you guys are pretty damn generous.

I think we're going to be very very bad, like 16 wins bad, and at our absolute best we'll pull in 25 wins.

Unless Atkinson is a damn miracle worker I just can't even fathom 30 wins.

[Lamak]

We were 21-61 this past year and I think we'll overachieve and be 27-55 next season. Someone was mentioning the quality of our players, I definitely think Bogdanovic, Lin, and Lopez are all starters with the proper offensive sets. We just never have coaches that use our players together, but I think Lin will really shine this year leading an offense again, which will lead to the Bojan breakout season. The bench is very weak, but I like the veteran presence of Scola, Booker, and Foye. Best case scenario, they let CMC start with RHJ later in the season so a lineup of

Lin 18ppg, 8apg, 3rpg
Bog 17ppg, 40% from 3
RHJ 8ppg, 4rpg, 1.5 stls
CMC 7ppg, 6rpg
Lopez 22ppg, 11rpg, 1.5 blks

In reality, I think we just need to be developing our new culture and decide who we see as the future talent. We need to let the new coaching staff decide how they want to play and from there we'll know how to go forward, this really is a complete rebuild. Playoffs don't seem like a possibility, we don't have enough quality depth and I'm not sure if we'll be able to outscore teams or play defense to win games.We already have to swap picks this year, but not much is worse than giving up a 3rd pick like we just did. I don't expect Lopez to get traded, because fans would be pissed.

[Netaman]

I think we're just jaded to how hard it is to win less than 30 games. The Knicks have been garbage for the past 10 years and they've only gone under 29 twice (Isiah's last year and Fisher's first year). Donnie Walsh tore that thing down to the studs prior to Melo and they were still winning 29-33 games because he brought some semblance of stability and a plan.

[Net Sentence]

wow some of you guys are pretty damn generous.

I think we're going to be very very bad, like 16 wins bad, and at our absolute best we'll pull in 25 wins.

Unless Atkinson is a damn miracle worker I just can't even fathom 30 wins.

We are the worst team in the NBA by a mile now. God forbid Lopez get injured, we might not get to double digits.

I hope I am wrong but 20 wins looks like a longshot.