So Who's Gonna Write The Reports? Official Brooklyn Nets Season Thread

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Im curious to see what this new and improved Joe Johnson is about. He's over there dropping weight like Heisenberg in SW New Mexico. shyt he needs to put ole Doughboy Deron on that plan too.
 
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so, until russian mob leader put out a legit contending team... long season(s) getting to the playoffs and losing is boring.
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I am never bored by basketball, whether we win 10 games or 50 I will watch every single game I can.

This team is years and years from thinking about legit title contention, but it's much better than the last couple years in Jersey so I'll take it.
 
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Tupac in a Business Suit said:
Im curious to see what this new and improved Joe Johnson is about. He's over there dropping weight like Heisenberg in SW New Mexico. shyt he needs to put ole Doughboy Deron on that plan too.
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D-Will has cut weight, he looks way trimmer right now than he did in the playoffs 5 months ago. He's gotta keep it up all season, but all reports out of camp have been nothing but positive
 
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I feel like we need some type of slasher. Someone who could finish at the rim
Someone to finish a fast break and put easy points on the board
 
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we got the head coach we should have had initially, Joe's learning how to be a veteran/leader, and our stars are healthy (hopefully :sadcam:). I can honestly see us winning 45 games this year
 
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I think we'll be alright if and only if brook and deron stay healthy. The same core of brook, joe and dwill won 49 games 2 yrs ago. Our big man rotation is what scares me esp if brook goes down. Theres no blatche for interior scoring then we're pretty much done.

But i think the team is gonna be exciting and we got alot of shooters and young players despite what people think. Plumlee, Bognaovic, Brown, Karasev should be exciting.

Im excited to see bognovic...he was killinig during the fiba tournament tied for 2nd. Him and mirza gonna give us some good shooting hopefully.
 
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During a five-on-five drill at Nets practice, Deron Williams shot down the left side of the court, curling to the opposite block to set a screen for Nets guard Bojan Bogdanovic. After setting the screen, Williams curled upwards, brushed Brook Lopez's shoulder, caught a pass from guard Joe Johnson on the right wing, and buried a three-pointer nothing but net.

On the next play, Lopez posted up his defender about above the left elbow, about 19 feet from the basket. "Get down, Brook!" Williams yelled.

After the play -- which ended with an open Lopez jumper, created by a double-team Williams drew inside -- Williams instructed his teammate. "You can't do that," Williams said, before pointing him closer to the high post and giving him further advice on positioning.

There's a reason Williams already looks more comfortable than in years past. For one, he's healthy, after offseason surgery to remove bone spurs from his left ankle and loose a bone fragment in his right ankle. But just as important, he's been here before.

"The system that we're putting in is a little bit similar to the one he ran back in Utah, so he's helping walk a lot of people through it who aren't familiar with it," his backup Jarrett Jack said Tuesday afternoon. "He knows a lot of tricks and little backdoors to it."

Williams doesn't want anyone to think he's trying to coach, and jokingly curled up in a half-fetal position after someone said he resembled one Wednesday. But his knowledge of the offense has trickled down to his teammates in the early stages of camp, and coach Lionel Hollins wants him relaying the info. "The point guard is the maestro, and Deron is feeling comfortable because it’s a structure, maybe more than it is something that he’s familiar with from Utah," Hollins added. "I think Deron is very good in structure and being able to play. He’s smart to figure out how he can have freedom within that."

Williams says he was prepared for Hollins's reboot. "He talked about the offense (with me) before training camp, so I knew what he was putting in before (we started)," Williams added. "I mean, he asked me to draw up plays and go over plays with him before."

When he realized what he'd said made it sound like he was a coach, he caught himself with a smile. "Oh, s--t," he groaned. "No, no, I'm not coaching the team. ... I've had input on every team I've played on. It's nothing different. Me and J-Kidd talked about plays often. Me and (former coach) Avery (Johnson) talked about plays often. Me and (former interim head coach) P.J. (Carlesimo) talked about plays often. It's no different from any team I've ever been on. As a point guard, the coach is going to talk to you. You have the ball in your hands a lot. You know what's going on out there, you're responsible for getting the ball in the right place, you're going to have conversations about the offense."

Two current Nets players played under Sloan with the Utah Jazz: embattled point guard Deron Williams, who flourished in Sloan's motion-heavy "flex" system before joining the Utah Jazz, and small forward Andrei Kirilenko, who played the first day with the starters in five-on-five drills before sitting out the next few practices with back tightness.

"I think it's just that we know where guys are going to be," Williams said. "With this type of offense, I think it's more passing, cutting, it's more team basketball. I think that benefits everybody."

Sloan's flex offense emphasized cutting and screening, particularly off the ball, and made heavy use of the pick-and-roll (think Stockton-Malone).
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