The New Jersey Nets have put a lot of faith in their Center Brook Lopez and Point Guard Devin Harris. Well first off, they traded away the face of their franchise a few years back, Jason Kidd, for Harris and a couple of other prospects. The team let Richard Jefferson slip to the Milwaukee Bucks, and even a few years before that let Kenyon Martin, another great player leave. Oh, not to mention they just got rid of their other scoring machine, Vince "Vinsanity" Carter. Four, five years ago the Nets were playing for the Eastern conference finals. What is bad managing, bad coaching or both that have impeded the Nets from doing well? The Nets have been terrible since, shipping great player after great player away. The Nets don't even have eccentric players like "The Birdman" in Denver to sell tickets. What are they expecting to do to sell tickets? Has there been an implicit agreement that the Nets will do whatever they can do make more and more mistakes? Ok, maybe i'm being too harsh. I mean, just look in baseball at the Tampa Bay Rays last year. They did similar actions, shipping off all their big name, and made the World Series. But that really seems like an inordinate case, and will not happen again. The Nets need to return to the halcyon days of being exciting and competing with the great teams in the league. Why are they being so chary of going after a big star? They need a new nuance; a new style. So the Nets this year have the raw young talent of Devin Harris, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Yi, and Brook Lopez. Four starters under the age of 25. Hard to be successful. But I suppose a paroxysm doesn't happen overnight, and will take a few years. I hope they're worth the wait.
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