The NBA season is just around the corner and with teams and players getting ready for training camp and another season of basketball, its also the time for the predictions to come out. Although, most predictions and guesses for next season are usually way off, and with injuries and different situations that come up throughout the season, there really is no way of being sure. ESPN has done it’s predictions and Bojan Bogdanovic doesn’t believe their completely accurate.
They predicated the Brooklyn Nets to be pretty bad next year, because they’re very early into their rebuilding process. Although adding Jeremy Lin and Greivis Vasquez to their backcourt will help out, the Nets are far from playoff contention, but not in the eyes of their forward Bojan Bogdanovic. In an interview with writer Vrtko Puljic of Croatia’s Sportske Novosti, Bogan said he believes the Nets have better chances than ESPN thinks. Per Igor Marinovic of Nets Daily:
“I think ESPN is wrong. Brooklyn will have new coach, new coaching staff. Maybe we’ll get some good free agent. I believe we will contend for playoffs next year,” said Bogdanovic, noting that last season, “We had a lot of problems. Coaching changes, the Jarrett Jack injury, the Joe Johnson departure…”
The Nets will have a long way to go until thinking about the Playoffs, but they’re starting to create a core that looks similar to what an NBA team should look like. If the Nets were to have any shot at that 8th seed in the East, Brook Lopez would have to be at 100%, along with a Jeremy Lin of 2011. But with Linsanity in New York again, anything is possible. Oh and a little more than one 40 point outpour from Bogdanovic.
