Are the Nets the most disappointing “super team” ever?

[druggas]

The 2011 Heat. Or the 72 Lakers.

At least Karl Malone, and Kobe Bryant were injured on the 2004/2013 Lakers respectively.

The Nets are dealing with injuries

Lakers won 33 straight and the championship that year.

[Johnny Bball]

Lakers for sure…. Although it’s not really “disappointing” for me.

[Ferulci]

I genuinely can’t remember a more disappointing super team than these Nets.

You might want to see a neurologist or someone specialized in memory loss then.
Kobe/Nash/Dwight lakers and probably half a dozen other "superteams" since then have been way more "disappointing"

[Dutchball97]

The 04 Lakers (Karl Malone and Payton joing the Kobe/Shaq duo) and 97 Rockets (Hakeem/Drexler/Barkley) come to mind as insanely stacked superteams that disappointed but the 04 Lakers made the finals and the 97 Rockets got to the WCF where they lost to a strong Jazz team in 6. Maybe you could even add the 2011 Heat as that team should've won a ring by all means, not that different to the 04 Lakers at least imo. That is pretty much nothing compared to the 2013 Lakers though since they got swept in the first round after adding Nash and Dwight to a team that already had Kobe, Pau and Artest.

The 2022 Nets are suffering from all kinds of issues with their stars. Harden had a terribly slow start where he looked nothing like himself and right when he got back in form, KD went down with a significant injury and that isn't even mentioning the entire Kyrie saga. Like with the other examples the play-offs will determine how we'll view this team in the future. If they win a ring nobody will even remember the regular season struggles, if they do well but come up short in the finals or ECF they'll be in the convo with the previously mentioned 97 Rockets, 04 Lakers and 11 Heat but they'll need a total collapse to be remembered as a bigger disappointment than the 13 Lakers.

[The_Ghost_of_JB]

Isn't it a little early to call them disappointing?! I'm fully expecting them to win the championship this year.

[Murray_17]

How many games have the "big 3" played together tho?

It cannot be more than 20.

[BallerTalk]

The 2011 Heat. Or the 72 Lakers.

At least Karl Malone, and Kobe Bryant were injured on the 2004/2013 Lakers respectively.

The Nets are dealing with injuries

Kobe played 78 games that season and the Lakers still had to win the last game of the season just to tie for the 7th/8th seed.
Blaming that season's disappointment on Kobe's injury is a bit of revisionist history.

[Tor_Raps]

We're living through an unprecedented time so I don't think it's fair to judge them right now. Kyrie is going through something that we've never seen before. If they're all playing then we can make a definitive comment.

He could be playing, it’s something he’s willing put himself and his team through… but let’s not get into that.

Besides, even if it was the anti-vaxx stuff, Kyrie would have found some other way to screw over his team. He’s done it with the Cavs and Celtics, no reason he wouldn’t have found a creative way to do it with the Nets anyway even without COVID.

I don't deny that at all. He was taking random days off and saying he may retire even before COVID.

Dude is something else but I'd still like to see it play through. Some people learn and get better from their previous mistakes and don't let that always define them. Not holding my breath here though lol.

[SF_Warriors]

They have been disappointing in the sense that we have rarely seen their big three play together. Win or lose, I want to see the superteam play together.

[R-DAWG]

The 2016-2017 Derrick Rose Knicks #SuperTeam comes to mind...

[R-DAWG]

The 2011 Heat. Or the 72 Lakers.

At least Karl Malone, and Kobe Bryant were injured on the 2004/2013 Lakers respectively.

The Nets are dealing with injuries

Lakers won 33 straight and the championship that year.

Both the teams mentioned above went to the NBA Finals in the years you refernce. But the Heatles Superteam needs to be judged on the full body of work over their 4 seasons together. And one can make the argument that 2 championships in 4 years is underwhelming, but disapointing is too strong of a word.

[Bankai]

Nash/Kobe/Odom/Gasol/Howard was much more disappointing then these Nets or the Pierce/Garnett/Deron/Johnson Nets.

[TheLand13]

I mean if Harden walks, it's a disaster.

This in a nut shell. If Harden walks, that means they gave up Allen and Levert for nothing, who would still be extremely helpful to the Nets right now.

But at the same time, I've always wanted this team to fail, and it doesn't even have anything to do with the franchise itself or anything of the sort. Afterall, my team benefited from this trade. I wanted them to fail because I always thought that the idea of having three superstar level scorers on the same team who play below average defense is incredibly stupid, and I still couldn't believe they did it.

Isn't it a little early to call them disappointing?! I'm fully expecting them to win the championship this year.

I don't know how or why you're expecting that at this point.

[Jakay]

I feel like the Dream/Barkley/Pip Houston team isn't getting enough disrespect here.

[MeestR]

Which Nets year?

[Harcore Fenton Mun]

If they have another team go the way of Pierce/Garnette/Williams...Oof.

[DarkXaero]

I'm confused by the idea of this thread. Is OP referring to the Nets roster rarely becoming fully available? Because in that sense, yes, its disappointing. However, we're still only in the middle of year 2 with this team, and playoffs are still months away. So the premise of this thread is still ridiculously premature. If we're talking about the Nets product when the roster is healthy/mostly healthy, then OP is watching a different reality.

[Slim Charlez]

The nets super team was never a sure championship.. everybody knew they had a lot of work to do and things to figure out.. they still have time to work out if they can get healthy and when healthy they are the best team in the East..

The only thing they need to "figure out" is being able to have their big three in games together. Having those three makes them a pretty comfortable favorite to win it all but whether it's Kyrie's antics or injuries it just hasn't been able to happen.

[Bobbymcgee]

Probably one of the strangest super-teams ever. Their star players have hardly played together and now there are rumors of discontent and breaking up this summer with Kevin Durant possibly stuck playing for a lottery bound Nets team next year.

[SpreeChokeJob]

I mean if Harden walks, it's a disaster.

This in a nut shell. If Harden walks, that means they gave up Allen and Levert for nothing, who would still be extremely helpful to the Nets right now.

But at the same time, I've always wanted this team to fail, and it doesn't even have anything to do with the franchise itself or anything of the sort. Afterall, my team benefited from this trade. I wanted them to fail because I always thought that the idea of having three superstar level scorers on the same team who play below average defense is incredibly stupid, and I still couldn't believe they did it.

Isn't it a little early to call them disappointing?! I'm fully expecting them to win the championship this year.

I don't know how or why you're expecting that at this point.

This is what happens when players play GM. They want to be the Da man and have control of everything. There isn’t enough time in the day to practice and play basketball, handle their social life, look after their business interests while play pretend GM or hire their figurehead coaches.

The record hasn’t been great for these player GM’s. Sean Marks given full authority would be kicking so much ass if he didn’t have to give some of it to the inmates in the asylum for their talent.