The Brooklyn Nets next move could be the one that slams the door shut on a failure to rebuild on the fly by adding aging veterans together in hopes of a playoff run. Let’s be honest when Brooklyn traded for Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett we all knew it was a recipe for failure.
Nothing against those players what so ever it just was not going to mesh.
With the failures that general manager Billy King has given this team the lone bright spot for the Brooklyn Nets is Mason Plumlee. Plumlee had the opportunity to develop behind the scenes thanks to playing alongside Kevin Garnett thanks to a Brook Lopez injury his rookie year. Plumlee’s stats may not show a promising big man, but he’s certainly shown flashes of what he can be. Plumlee averaging 8 points and 5 rebounds in about 19 minutes a night for his career is pretty productive though and he could be valuable.
The Nets feel they need to move Plumlee in hopes of moving up from the 29th pick they swapped with the Atlanta Hawks in the Joe Johnson trade.
Following from Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News.
The possibility of moving Plumlee shows the Nets focus could be to keep big man Brook Lopez despite some rumors they were possibly trading him. Lopez has proven to be one of the better Centers in the game when healthy, but a lingering foot issue has ended Lopez’s season a couple years ago could be a bothersome injury if you’re the Nets. There’s no word on how far the Nets are looking to move up, and how they plan to do it with minimal assets on the team to do so.
If I’m Billy King I’d do a total overhaul and decide who you’re building around whether Plumlee or Lopez are apart of those plans. Rebuilding on the fly never works and Billy King should obviously know that. The Nets need to just gut the whole team unfortunately the Deron Williams trade has been a failure and I think the Nets do head towards a rebuild. But will King do the right thing and collect draft picks? Or just try and rebuild as fast as he can.
