THE ROOKIE IS HOOPING!!!!

That’s the best loss we’ve seen in yrs bc we finally have hope again. Mikel is a special talent

MIKEL BROWN JR BANG!

It’s alright at least we know he has some ice in his veins . From here on out he’ll be much better and more efficient

In the final two minutes...

Back-to-back missed threes off the catch (2nd one led to Randle stupidly fouling out).

Missed a stepback iso three when they could've got a better shot.

Whiffed a layup that barely got excused by the challenge.

Then pulls a Fox up 1 with 6 seconds left.

Yeah we're 0-4 now but this would've been a significantly worse learning experience if he got the validation of the W after all of that. Excited to see him be better and grow from this.

📊 27 PTS | 12 REB | 6 3PM | 2 BLK

📊 15 PTS | 6-9 FG | 3 AST | 2 STL

People keep claiming that fans are being unrealistic bc they wanted a great record. I thought this team would win 30 games this yr and I still think that’s reasonable. My issue and the issue a lot of fans have is how the young players are performing. Egor doesn’t look much like how he did in summer league (it’s early and that was SL but we wanted to see much more growth in the paint), Traore has looked ok, the other 3 from that draft don’t have a role in this team consistently, Noah clowney is pretty much the same, 2 of the rookies we drafted this yr are in the g league and Mikel is on a mins restriction.

We’re just looking at this roster and saying what kind of core is being developed. You look at young teams like the hornets, mavs, grizzlies, wizards. Not even getting into he elite young cores in OKC, San Antonio or Houston. We’ve invested our time money and energy into this team and people have a right to want a reasonable ROI. We should be seeing more progression. We’re not asking for a much where are the role players future starters,.

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Interesting cursed scenario called out by the Athletic.

"However, the Nets will be ineligible to win the 2028 lottery if they win it in 2027 — even if that pick goes to Houston. This seems good at first, an incentive against long-term tanking! But it flips if things are going badly and the Nets are in contention for one of the league’s worst records. At that point, Brooklyn would be strongly incentivized to finish in the bottom three and reduce its odds of handing over the first pick in 2027 to the Rockets from 8.1 percent to 5.4 percent … an outcome that would disqualify it from winning in 2028. (Secondarily, it would also devalue its unprotected 2028 first if it wanted to trade it.)

I highlighted Brooklyn, but teams that plan on being good could get caught up in this, too. Three other teams owe an unprotected first-round pick in 2027 but control their pick in 2028 (Atlanta, San Antonio and Toronto). It’s hard to imagine a scenario where any of the three would be bad enough to engage in a tanking premise, but strange things happen."

📊 15 PTS | 5-9 FG | 3 3PM | 3 REB | 2 AST

Congrats to him, that's a great opportunity.

A bit of a history lesson since I already compared this team to the 91-92 Nets.

BK has allowed 110, 125 and now 136 points in its first three games. Against Indiana, the Nets actually led after the first quarter before giving up 112 points over the final 36 minutes.

Fernandez called the performance “just unacceptable” and pointed to pretty much everything: spacing, execution, pick-and-roll communication, effort and guys dropping their heads after mistakes.

The trade

Orlando Magic receive: Michael Porter Jr., 2027 first-round pick (via NYK), 2028 first-round pick (1-8 protected, via PHI), 2029 second-round pick (via GSW) and 2029 second-round pick (via MEM)

Brooklyn Nets receive: Franz Wagner

I tried to watch the game yesterday, and I checked out at halftime. Not because it was a blowout (because it wasn't at the time), but because we're just so fckin boring.

The team has no sauce, no sizzle, no pizzazz, no flavor, no NOTHING. We only score by getting lucky breaks, and even then, we'll mess up.

And defensively, we just allow pretty much anyone to do whatever they want. No urgency, no scrapiness.

The Nets, for the past few years, just seem so averse to dunking. I love dunking. Who doesn't love dunks? We don't dunk. Our personnel is hilariously unathletic. Our fast breaks are slow jogs.

I guess to sum it up would be this... If you're gonna be a bad team, at least be entertaining to watch. I can watch losses if I enjoy the basketball I'm watching. But I can't watch unathletic, lazy, low-IQ players ooze garbage all on the court.

At that point, what exactly am I rooting for? What tf are y'all rooting for?

We need to know immediately what was discussed during that timeout. Either Mikel has the BBIQ to be an immediate draft bust or Jordi is a flat-out terrible coach