Brooklyn Nets have bet the house as of late, sacrificing future talent for the hopes of proven veterans. The list goes on and on as you already know the familiar subjects. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Joe Johnson, Gerald Wallace are the main culprits of this Nets remake they tried and have failed at executing.
While the ownership finally figures out what they want to do with the team, the players are still working harder than ever before and they are working towards one goal. The Playoffs.
Even the newest member of the team, Thaddeus Young, sees only one goal in sight.
Following from Tim Bontemps of the New York Post.
“Any win you can get is a great thing, especially for us as a team,” said Thaddeus Young, who scored 19 points in his return to Minnesota. “It just wasn’t clicking in the second half [of games], but now we’re starting to get together, we’re starting to hit shots and we’re starting to get things rolling.
“Now, we don’t have any time to waste … we’re trying to get back into this playoff hunt.”
Young was sent from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Nets in a deal that involved sending Kevin Garnett back home to Minnesota, one of those failed experiments by the Nets. Brooklyn sits 11 games under .500 after getting a win on Monday over a Timberwolves team that was with out 7 regular rotation players. The good news for Brooklyn, they are in the Eastern Conference, meaning they are only two-and-a-half games out of the 8 seed and making the playoffs.
The tank is off in Brooklyn, despite the need for them to be in good cap standing for whoever the new ownership should be. As many thought the deal was going down that the Nets were packing it in for the season, it seems like Young is leading the idea of
The problem is, the clock is ticking and it’s ticking pretty fast. With under 20 games remaining in the NBA regular season and teams ahead of them like the Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, Boston Celtics and Charlotte Hornets all performing well recently, for the most part, and fighting for the final 2 spots in the east, it’s very unlikely Brooklyn just sneaks in.
