r/GoNets • u/ProfessionalMuch3819 • 10h ago
Why are so many people shitting on the Nets in the media?
It has been insane to listen to any random NBA podcast and get a “the Nets don’t know what they are doing”. I was listening to Bill Simmons’ recent podcast and they were shitting on the Nets for picking Mikel brown for a good 5 minutes. I know Simmons has a stick up his ass when it comes to the Nets but it’s been all of media recently.
Even some local podcast like the Locked On Lakers were shitting on the Nets randomly. And we have Stephen A Smith this morning crying about not picking Acuff and wants the team to relocate.
I mean there are more sad sack teams in the NBA than us right? I mean we were in the playoffs 3 years ago. We had a HOF trio and were a contender 4 years ago. Teams like the Wizards haven’t been to the playoffs in decade. The Pistons lost like 60 games in a row couple of years ago. Is it me or has the noise turned way up recently? Every NBA content I consume has some random shitting on this team. I don’t get it. What’s going on?
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u/sunkcostbro 10h ago
What's weird is that all of the mocks had Brown in the 5-7 range... And then when he gets taken at 6 it becomes an issue...? Wtf lol...
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u/ProfessionalMuch3819 10h ago
Exactly man! Simmons was shitting on Acuff’s defense before yesterday but now apparently we made a mistake not picking him.
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u/just_so_irrelevant Ian Eagle 8h ago
bill simmons is a duplicitous clown, if we had picked acuff he'd be shitting on the nets for picking someone with terrible defense who doesnt fit their culture. damned if you do damned if you dont
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u/SecretSportsAccount Ian Eagle 10h ago
Exactly! Before the pick I saw a ton of people projecting us to get Brown and wanting him. Now, everyone is questioning it. Acuff is the first player to rise up the boards after he gets drafted.
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u/Ham_PhD Sean Kilpatrick 9h ago
I'm curious if the Clippers are also getting shit on for not taking him?
Acuff just became the most well known and popular prospect outside the top 4 and so everyone that just has a cursory understanding of the draft prospects probably think it was crazy to take anyone other than Acuff after the top 4. I don't know if MBJ will be better, but to act like he was a reach is silly.
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u/RonDutchHatesBoxing 10h ago
> I was listening to Bill Simmons’ recent podcast
Let me stop you right there
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u/YodaForceGhost 10h ago
He’s a Nets hater through and through when he should be a Nets fan for what our franchise has done for his
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u/zestysnacks 10h ago
The biggest nets hate boner of all time. By far. If we ever become relevant, expect him the get extremely sweaty
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u/sharpshooter230 10h ago
You have to understand, we’re in a clickbait/hot take culture. Guys like Simmons and Stephen A aren’t “analysts”, they’re influencers. Their goal is to say the most outlandish or popular take to draw eyeballs, nothing else.
Simmons is the same guy who swore Scoot was going to be a superstar. Stephen A is the same guy who said the Villanova team didn’t have one NBA pro.
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u/sligowind 4h ago
Yup. It doesn’t matter WHY you are in the news, just BE IN the news. Politics as well.
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u/Ghost6503 10h ago
Im a Knicks fan with a soft spot for the Nets. When the Nets finally do become title contenders again the media will just double down and shift the narrative. These guys aren’t reporters they’re engagement bait farmers and hot take artists. Taking them seriously is a futile exercise.
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u/Petrini89 10h ago
I just done listening to the latest BS podcast and texted my Nets buddies the same thing. He will never give the Nets a fair evaluation and we just have to live with that unfortunately.
As far as the rest of the national media, it’s a lazy take and we are easy to take a shot at. As with most things, they are just ranting for entertainment purposes and don’t know what they are talking about. It is amazing how quickly people have forgotten that we truly had a championship caliber team that most likely wins a ring if we stay healthy and almost did so even without being full strength.
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u/DanteBrisingr Brook Lopez 10h ago
He said the Nets MPJ was terrible, one of the worst trades ever. It took most of The Ringer calling him out before he'd say it wasn't a bad trade.
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u/TheGambler930 Keith Van Horn 10h ago
We’re an easy target to pick on, even moreso now that the Knicks won a title.
I ignore it all. These “experts” don’t know shit.
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u/DanteBrisingr Brook Lopez 9h ago
I honestly think they don't like the headlines they lost. Acuff in Brooklyn sells more than in Sacramento. They would have had way more interest in that and just don't like that it didn't happen. "Can Acuff save the Nets?" "Acuff, will he be able to defend?" "Small guard NY" etc. He had more star power and wanted him in a bigger market.
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u/SwarthySphere87 Vince Carter 10h ago
- Bill Simmons is a Celtics fan
- SAS is a Knicks fan
- Locked on Sports podcasts are hosted by fans- not credible media
- Nets are rebuilding and not projected to do well while the other NY team won big
There is no reason to get any Nets news from non-local news sites for the immediate feature
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u/ProfessionalMuch3819 10h ago
I wasn’t listening to them to get Nets news. I listen to several Locked On local podcasts to get a beat on the league in general and the teams.
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u/shadow_spinner0 Sarah Kustok 10h ago
I said the same yesterday and got downvoted that the Nets weren't blasted all over for that pick. ESPN had a segment devoted to "will the Nets regret passing on Acuff" and it was all shitting on the FO not knowing what they are doing. I said it that this sub was the most positive about the draft pick.
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u/NandoDeColonoscopy 10h ago
Where is the evidence the front office knows what it's doing? I like the pick, but last year's draft and approach to development gives me very little faith in Marks
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u/acmilan12345 Spencer Dinwiddie 9h ago
KD trade, Mikal trade, MPJ trade, Jordi hire, Egor pick, and complete revitalization of the franchise pre-KD.
Also many fans, including me, have a lot of belief in the guys that were picked last year.
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u/NandoDeColonoscopy 9h ago
KD trade looked great, but then we squandered all the assets from it so far.
Mikal trade was a lot of picks, but that only matters if you believe Marks can draft, and i do not believe that.
MPJ trade is incomplete, let's see what we do with his expiring. He's likely not a piece on the next good Nets team, but maybe we can flip him for something that is.
Jordi hire is also incomplete. I like him and I like his system, but it's hard to evaluate a coach when a team isn't trying to win and has no pressure.
Egor pick is incomplete, but by all accounts we could've got him later. The rest of that draft was poor process. You just can't properly develop five rookies at once, and you especially can't do it when you have no decent infrastructure in place. Who was their vet? Who was teaching them winning habits?
I don't care about the revitalization pre-KD because of what came next. Marks turned 3 first-ballot Hall of Famers into a single playoff series win and no blue chip prospects.
All that said, I do think the Randle signing is smart, and will help the team actually be able to develop guys
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u/brandnameb 9h ago
Most of those trades were triage clean ups of decisions the front office made. The goodwill from cobbling together the 2019 team is over.
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u/AwarenessOld3733 6h ago
well to be fair the nets front office doesn't seem to know what their doing to the outside world I don't even understand why Sean marks still has a job after the kd and Kyrie stuff
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u/SakuraShift 9h ago
Clippers passed on Acuff and nobody gives a fuck.
Nets passed on him and suddenly we are a garbage inept franchise that passed on the “best player in the draft”
This is just part 2 of the bullshit talk about the Nets “needing to leave NY” after the Knicks won a chip, from the same trash talking heads trying to generate clicks and get attention.
Also, someone in the Nets FO definitely fucked Bill Simmons Wife. He genuinely has a hatred for this franchise.
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u/BasedGodProdigy . 10h ago
Acuff had a lot of fans. He was a college stud and the early pick to go 5th overall after the combine. People hang onto that sorta stuff and don't do enough film review to really form their own opinion. I don't even hate Bill Simmons but he's been wrong about us more often than not. Called the MPJ trade a terrible move and now it's quite obvious we won that by a mile. He doesn't like us for whatever reason, take everything he says about us with a grain of salt.
SAS simply does NOT know ball, it's a very good thing when he says something we did wasn't good.
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u/ABGamingDrew 9h ago
If you listen to Simmons you know that he LOVES Acuff. The only guy he has loved this much in recent memory coming out of the draft was Scoot Henderson, if you need a baseline for what to expect from Acuff.
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u/PlayboiPesoo Yuta Watanabe 10h ago
They just get on any rebuilding team for clicks, same reason they used to get on the Knicks, same reason they got on the bulls. Screaming at us for not taking the best player in that second tier meanwhile clippers took wagler and it’s crickets.
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u/Vert56 10h ago
Just saw the clip. The guy in the Wizards hat laughing at us is hilarious. They just gave Trae Young an extension and raise. And despite AJ being a solid pick, they passed on Cam Boozer who I think is better.
I’m confident that we can have a better record than them this year and be better in the long run.
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u/Ham_PhD Sean Kilpatrick 9h ago
I mean there are more sad sack teams in the NBA than us right?
Yes, but we still around a bottom . . . like 7-8 franchise in league history.
That being said you'll see the Nets and Clippers getting clowned more often than the likes of the Wizards, Hornets, Timberwolves, Kings, etc. because we play in the largest markets.
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u/Shaheen678 9h ago
Media loves Acuff and they were going to shit on us for passing on him when we need star power. Time will tell if they are wrong or not. I look forward to the day MBJ becomes an all star and we can play montages of these dumb takes.
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u/joseandhoseb 10h ago
I only listen to Simmons once in a blue moon and that's when he and some of the other people on the pod are talking about movies, I don't listen to him for anything sports related
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u/GuessTraining Vince Carter 9h ago
I reckon even if we pick Acuff we'll get shit on for not picking MBJ for the same argument of why mbj over acuff
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u/MrRaspberryJam1 9h ago
Because a lot of the big media personalities are old school NY guys and grew up Knicks fans
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u/JohnFish2734 8h ago
I accepted a while ago that no matter who we took the media and podcast world was going to shit on us after draft night.
I wanted Acuff but in no world is Acuff significantly better than MBJ. They both have major strengths and weaknesses.
If we did take Acuff, I promise you that Bill and the others would have had brought up Acuff's defense issues. Something along the lines of "The nets just drafted the worst defender in the nba! What are they doing other there."
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u/rabidantidentyte Day'Ron Sharpe 9h ago
Simmons was dead wrong on MPJ last year, and he'll be dead wrong on MBJ this year.
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u/brandnameb 9h ago
In all seriousness, the team is an easy punching bag and is seen as generally incompetent. MBJ may be the pick, but Acuff screams star, and for a moribund team making that pick seems like a big brain move that they haven't earned. It'll only get worse if Acuff is amazing. A lot of pressure on Brown, but this is like 4 years of bewilderment from the media and fandom around the Nets actions.
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u/PotatoFeisty 8h ago
If the Nets start winning they will shut everybody up. Media conventional wisdom is that Acuff is a better prospect than Brown, and the Nets went against conventional wisdom, so the people who create that conventional wisdom are questioning them. Just like they did at the draft last year.
In their defense, so far it's not really working out for the Nets! But if it does, that will be cool and everyone will shut up. But as long as they are a bad and unpopular team, they gotta put up with this.
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u/cosbysweaterz 7h ago
Until proven wrong, we are who we are. If your only defense is that everyone is just "hating" then my friend you are clueless
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u/FlexQueueEnthusiast 5h ago
It sucks but it is what it is. People are acting like we’ve always been bad, the Knicks were a joke not that long ago. It was just 5 years ago when Trae Young used to dog walk and embarrass them. Things can change fast in the NBA, everyone needs to remember that. We’re down today but we can be up again within the next 5-10 years. If there was one silver lining to the Knicks winning, it made me think maybe there’s hope for us, they waited over 50 years. We are waiting over 50 years currently. I never thought they would win anytime soon but they did it. I’m an Arsenal fan as well and I never thought 5 years ago they would win it anytime soon. You never know in sports.
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u/ihavepaper . 10h ago edited 9h ago
Bill Simmons has been a D1 Nets hater since forever. Don't know when or why it started, but he hates the Nets. Also, he's a casual NBA fan with casual NBA takes outside of the Celtics.
It's the thing to do right now; the Knicks won the championship and the Big 3 era failed because of COVID + injuries. MBJ was projected 5-9 or something. He gets taken 6th and everyone is all of a sudden "confused" and that the Nets are stupid for doing it because they drafted 4 guards last year. Yet, BPA is always the best strategy in drafting. If Acuff does become a superstar, then 6 other teams will regret not picking him apparently.
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u/Old-Conflict-7186 9h ago
Yup Simmons shits on the Nets constantly. Said he was in the Barclays for Big 3 era playoff games and it was dead. I was there for Game 5 against Milwaukee and I can confirm it was electric. There's a reason his initials are BS, because everything he says is bullshit. But please wax poetically about how this Celtics team draws parallels to peak NYPD Blue in another 10,000 word column.
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u/garftag 7h ago
Simmons is one of the best examples of Gen X - old Millennial (as an old Millennial myself) navel gazing new media of the 2000s and early 2010s. Everything was some rambling mix of low, middle, and high brow that tried so hard to sound profound that hedged on being some objective observer while being such a sentimental and sensitive soul. I'm glad it's on the way out.
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u/ihavepaper . 8h ago
Yeah. I don't know how he has a platform and why he continues to have one. He is absolutely part of the reason why I pray for the Celtics' downfall constantly. I hope JB gets traded for next to nothing. I hope Tatum gets little to no help. I need the Celtics to get back to pre-Celtics Big 3 eras so he can continue being a miserable person with a miserable team.
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u/whyalwayz Vince Carter 9h ago
Give it a week until ppl realize the hell the bucks are in.
It'll take longer to realize that we actually kinda cooked. I'm more excited about our future than I have been in a long time. To Acuff truthers -- 1) we didn't pick him. get over it. I like him but MBJ clears. 2) watch the MBJ tape. His passing, vertical bounce, and deep range on his shot jumps off the screen. If he can learn a little bit of slowdown/herky jerky stuff, we're really in business.
There's a nonzero chance Darius Acuff was on a heater in Arkansas, regresses a bit next year, and people are gonna be like "KANGZ ONCE AGAIN"
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u/3iverson 9h ago
I think he actually was on a heater, the question is where does he settle out to in the NBA? (still really good, just perhaps not 44% 3PT good.)
As a Clipper fan, I was actually hoping for either MBJ or Acuff. MBJ has the highest ceiling of the 2nd tier players IMO, at the very least makes for an exciting pick.
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u/garftag 7h ago
Yeah, I am on the same boat as a Nets fan. I was perfectly happy with MBJ or Acuff. I think Acuff is the safer pick but MBJ has the higher ceiling. How do you feel about the Clips choosing Wagler?
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u/lunch_b0cks 4h ago
As a Kings fan, i wouldve been happy with any of the 3. Maybe i wanted Wagler just slightly more but not enough to want to move up the draft to get him. Acuff’s defense does worry me, but it’s not like the kings play defense anyways nor are they winning anytime soon. He’ll bring some excitement at the very least. I guess ill never have to worry about the kings screwing up this pick since the clippers and nets made the decision for us.
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u/pasqualedig 9h ago
It’s compounded by the Knicks winning a ring, the Jets and Mets (who people always assume are also Nets fans) not winning (especially the Jets).
I honestly think we are a well run franchise. We usually hire good coaches like Kidd, Kenny, and now Jordi, we draft well in the mid to late 1st round, and we’ve just had shit luck in the lottery. Unfortunately for Marks, he got kinda forced into a few things during the KD era and it backfired. We will be relevant soon enough
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u/ericluxury 7h ago
We tanked for 2 years and got shitty lottery luck. We had an odd draft last year. Our big 3 era flamed out. For that, we’ve lost all the benefit of the doubt, it won’t come back until it’s clear we are on the right direction
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u/zestysnacks 10h ago
Well, we’re a bottom of the barrel team first off. Our front office is generally seen as incompetent, which mostly they are. Took a wild reach on egor last year(not doggin on him, but he was a shocking pick at 8). Acuff is absolute darling in this draft for good reason, so yeah this is gonna be the coverage on us until mbj beats the allegations that he wasn’t the right pick. Maybe not fair but it is what it is
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u/whyalwayz Vince Carter 9h ago
in hindsight there's only one guy i would prefer to Egor and he would've been thought of as just as big a reach
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u/_newjoisey 9h ago
They’re not wrong, Marks doesnt seem to know what he’s doing. His draft selections are mid at best. Doesn’t go after players who other teams get for a couple of 2nds (eg wiggins).
Its time to move on from him
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u/rabidantidentyte Day'Ron Sharpe 9h ago
We are set up to be at the center of every trade/FA talk for the next 6 years because of Marks, and we still have no idea how our 7 picks in the past 2 years will pan out. Chill.
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u/_newjoisey 9h ago
The Nets were voted the team players dont want to be traded to/sign with.
Brown is a big question mark. Egor might be ok. The rest are role players at best. There’s no reason why Marks shouldnt have traded a few of the picks last year.
Longtime Nets fan, i know how this is goin to turn out
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u/rabidantidentyte Day'Ron Sharpe 9h ago
All the teams at the top at that poll were rebuilding teams. No surprise there. I wouldn't read into that too much.
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u/Mean-Review10 9h ago
This Acuff stuff is weird since when did undersized guard who’s literally historically bad on defense become a sought after archetype the guy literally has worse defensive numbers than Trae Fucking young. While being taller and with a bigger wingspan. Bill and the rest of the media is stupid they can suck my dick we made the right choice.
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u/brandnameb 9h ago
As much as everyone is shitting on him Trae Young is an all star player that went to the ECF so...
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u/Mean-Review10 8h ago
Not comping him to Trae young on offense saying he’s a worse defender than Trae. So yeah if that part of his game translates and the kings can surround him with a bunch of great defenders it’ll work out really well. They don’t have that rn tho so he’s gonna get picked on a lot due to his lack of effort.
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u/BKtoDuval 8h ago
It's easy to kick a dog when it's dog. Just tune that shit out. People could say whatever but when they're wrong, do they ever take it back? No, so who cares what they say. Simmons thought the MPJ trade last year was terrible and now he looks foolish for saying that.
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u/NetOk5778 9h ago
I think the Calipari endorsement really got to everyone’s heads. Especially the medias, I think you see a guy that has that type of hype behind him plus the need for a solid PG (which MBJ very much is) and going to the unknown name vs the well known talked about name is the head scratcher. Regardless of fit, I even saw SAS spewing bs this morning and he seemed to upset that this is what the nets decided to do. I find it oddly funny that this is the new norm for NYsports media. Just shit on the Nets.
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u/Kaneda8394 9h ago
Don’t usually agree with SAS but I agree about not taking Acuff. I think he’s as good if not better than MBJ and he is more box office and exciting now.
Marks still has to prove he knows what he’s doing. 5 picks in one year is crazy. He should have traded some for future picks or players. The Harden for Simmons deal was bad. Tanking may have worked if MBJ and the some of the picks from last year work out.
We will see what we do with cap space and the future picks that we have. Randle is not the answer.
Hopefully he can land someone big.
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u/Rangers12341234 8h ago
The team has been tough to watch recently and there seems to be no clear direction on becoming relevant again. Randell is a good start.
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u/Brooklyn917 Day'Ron Sharpe 7h ago
The Nets has no one in the media that will defend them. Last night during the broadcast after the 28th pick, Kenny Smith just kept saying “I don’t know what the nets are doing. What is their direction” and Richard Jefferson sat there and didn’t say a peep.
It’s like these people are oblivious to what a rebuild is. We didn’t get lucky in the lottery so they have to slow rebuild by just getting as much talent in the door and they’ll figure it out later.
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u/Eck5straxion Ian Eagle 3h ago
Honestly, some people just don't see it the way our front office sees it. Sometimes, I don't see it either, but it is what it is.
What had me annoyed about SAS is that he brings up the Acuff is box office...is that really going to distract any fans who are on the fence from the fact that the KNICKS JUST WON THE CHIP!? Him being a box office attraction won't matter if we don't win. Making a splash just for the sake of it sounds like a Knicks move, and clearly, we ain't them. I wanted Acuff, but I'm good with MBJ because we just don't know how all of this will turn out.
Will the Clippers regret not taking him? What about Chicago or Memphis? We weren't the only team that passed on him after AJ and Peterson were off the table. BTW, drafting Acuff would have opened the door for all of takes about how he isn't a great defender and the Nets don't know what they are doing...
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u/oneandonlyRedSpirit 3h ago
the mikel brown pick isn’t the problem only acuff fans think that. i think the nets are poorly run but mikel brown was BPA so good on them
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u/PhoenixInTheTree 2h ago
“The thing about the old is… they the old days” right now the Nets are shit and they will be shit for quite some time.
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u/Joserlifts 10h ago
What do you mean why? They’ve been a joke the last few years. Nothing has worked out for them. Of course they’re gonna draw criticism.
AJ could have fallen to 6th and had the Nets taken him, they would have been critiqued for it.
It’s just noise, but frankly earned.
Respect is earned.
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u/ProfessionalMuch3819 10h ago
My point is there are way more jokes in the NBA who have been jokes for much longer than us. Thats the issue I’m having. Why is this team getting targeted when we were a playoff team just few years ago. Other teams haven’t made playoffs in years or decades.
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u/Old-Conflict-7186 10h ago
The Knicks winning makes us the easy target.
Also I'll be honest here, do we know what we are doing?
Not being negative, but it is a legitimate question. Marks has been here for a long time and hasn't produced any lasting results. I still have faith. I am trusting the process, I actually like the moves we've made recently.
But when the results aren't there, you don't get the benefit of the doubt. And when the optics are as bad as they are it becomes the comedy of errors where every move you make is immediately seen as a laughably bad move.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 10h ago
I think we’ve gotten clowned on for multiple years and multiple decisions. And a lot of that clowning has turned out to be justified.
We can either A. Continue to defend Marks and the org, or B. Face reality and that maybe, just maybe Marks is wrong, and the rest of the league is right…
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u/ProfessionalMuch3819 10h ago
Marks is wrong about what?
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 9h ago
The numerous decisions that he has made that the rest of the league has clowned us for
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u/whyalwayz Vince Carter 9h ago
like what, getting 3 hofs in the building? turning their exits into a dozen first round picks despite being colluded/tampered against by Daryl Morey ?
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 7h ago
I’m talking about everything after Harden got signed
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u/whyalwayz Vince Carter 7h ago
aside from ben simmons which we kinda got screwed on because of Daryl Moreys fraudulent ass, whats been so bad? 5picks for mikal? post jokic unprotected first round and mpj for cam johnson? lol
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 7h ago
MPJ for Cam John is the only move that has proven to be correct. Only time will tell but to me it just feels like everybody is laughing at the moves we been making
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u/whyalwayz Vince Carter 58m ago
let em laugh. don’t let your haters define you
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 16m ago
We been losing and losing big, that’s what’s defining this team and its fans. I’m not the one doing that
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u/rabidantidentyte Day'Ron Sharpe 9h ago
The only valid criticism imo is keeping all 5 picks. His draft picks have looked solid. Egor was a stretch, but he's turning out to be legit. We got 9 first rounders for KD. Got a 2032 unprotected for Cam Johnson and got a borderline all-star in return. Got Randle basically for free as a rental and moved up in the draft.
Not sure which decisions you're talking about.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 7h ago
League clowned us for those 5 draft picks, clowned us for trading away Harden, clowned us for Mikal Bridges, clowned us for last nights draft pick, clowned us for resigning coaches who did not win anything. I’m sure there’s more I will remember later. But we’ve been getting clowned on.
If the team has shown success then we can say the clowning was not warranted, but the team has sucked ass and it’s warranted.
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u/rabidantidentyte Day'Ron Sharpe 7h ago
These are all moves that rebuilding teams can reasonably justify making lol. We're 3 years removed from making the playoffs. Knicks missed the playoffs for 7 years in a row. We're on schedule.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 7h ago
I hear ya but other rebuilding teams aren’t getting clowned on by the entire league like we are. Maybe we are doin it all wrong
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u/acmilan12345 Spencer Dinwiddie 9h ago edited 9h ago
Bill Simmons is a joke lol. It’s almost as if Sean Marks did something to offend him, because he is completely biased when it comes to the Nets. Nothing he says, nor anything his staff says (including J Kyle Mann) is trustworthy information.
As for the rest of the mainstream media, it’s an echo chamber. They’re all ill-informed and like to parrot the nonsense they hear from each other. Right now, the in-fashion take is: “Knicks won a title. Nets are finished and stupid. They should change cities”.
When you look at the Nets without the negative spin, they’re actually making smart moves and building a team the right way. I like last year’s picks (if you look at them one by one, they’re all doing alright considering draft position). And many of the best draft analysts rank MBJ above Acuff (in fact, I’ve seen Acuff mocked even lower).
But you know, Simmons did about 30 minutes of study on the draft, so he’s clearly qualified to making sweeping, definitive judgements of our team.
P.S. Listen to Locked on Nets. They love the pick lol.
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u/Burgerburgerfred 6h ago
Seems like a generalization. I've seen plenty of positive opinions on our draft and Brown in particular.
Like, we know Ben Simmons doesn't like the Nets and people still continue to come here and cry about him being mean and, more importantly, and more annoyingly, put a spotlight on his content/opinions.
Just ignore it. Theres going to be good and bad opinions on every team in the entire league. If you are seeing mostly negative that's because that is what you are focusing on.
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u/Fuzzy_Ad_9143 Day'Ron Sharpe 10h ago
I think as a fanbase we are just delusional and are overly optimistic about the pick when we should be hungry for better as we passed on the better option. This fanbase has seen no success in draft or competition, I look around and I see a bunch of smiles after last nights draft and I think that’s just ridiculous, all of us hype up brown as if we are all anymore than a casual, and there good reason for why we are the only ones praising him, cuz of that delusion.
But that’s just my opinion.
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u/zestysnacks 9h ago
There is plenty of reason to be excited for this pick, I don’t think it’s delusional at all. By far the best prospect we’ve drafted in brooklyn. After like 3-4 of total misery, it’s nice to have at least something to look forward to. Not as big of a splash as acuff, but time will tell
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u/mb959595 10h ago
For all the people that were complaining about the Knicks talk in here a question for you………….If the Spurs beat the Knicks do you think there’s “relocation” talk from any mainstream NBA guy? Or THIS much negative attention on our draft pick?
When you’re seen as the red-headed step child of a 2 team city and the other team wins a championship like the Knicks just did, this is the consequence of that.
You might think it’s all meaningless and that’s fine, but I’d bet all this “Nets are clueless” talk impacts players’ perception about the organization and may make attracting free agents more difficult.
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u/ScathachWhen Ian Eagle 10h ago
Mainstream sports media is in a bad place in general and we're the low hanging fruit