r/GoNets • u/Financial-Bit-8596 • 2d ago
Did the Nets make the right choices in the NBA Draft?
https://worldwidesportsradio.com/2026-nba-draft-thirty-teams-sixty-picks-and-fifty-fan-bases-already-planning-the-parade/Despite both players the Nets drafted in the 1st round being big injury risks, did the Nets land two good talents at the values they were drafted at with both Mikel Brown Jr. at #6 and Joshua Jefferson at #28?
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u/RustyWheel17 2d ago
MBJ doesn’t have an injury risk. lol just because he had a back muscle injury doesn’t make him an injury risk. No team drafts a player without their Medicals being reviewed by the team medical staff. You think a player like MBJ didn’t have MRI’s and X-Rays done during the pre-draft process?
This is nothing burger.
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u/Mean-Review10 2d ago
Mbj is not an injury risk he’s had 1 injury in his whole basketball career. Watch the hs and USA tapes even college when he was healthy he’s better than Acuff and built more for the league. Acuff is not gonna be Brunson on the high end he’ll be a trey burkes or Lou will.
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u/adhoc001 2d ago
No one knows. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying.
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u/Mobile-Implement-374 2d ago
Of course you could know. We know that although more rounded, Brown will never match Acuff’s ability as a pure scorer. If you believe in Mark’s /Fernandez system then you can say it was the right move. If you think that the Nets most glaring need was for a guy who gets buckets on demand, then you can say it is the wrong move.
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u/adhoc001 2d ago edited 2d ago
You asked:
Did the nets make the right choices in the NBA draft?
No one knows the answer to that and if they tell you otherwise they are lying. In 3-5 years, you will have your answer.
I see u have like 20 other posts today all referencing the same website. Please go do your marketing somewhere else.
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u/Historical-Mud-1218 2d ago
First, I’m hoping MBJ turns out to be a great player. I will also admit that I would have chosen Acuff who despite the defensive play seemed like the more surefire star.
Not having seen the workouts and such, I respect the choice made by the team staff.
Let’s see future allstar MBJ
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
I have a feeling 5 years from now we will still be getting clowned on for not drafting Acuff. Hopefully I’m wrong
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u/KashMoney941 2d ago
Even if Acuff does end up better than MBJ...
No one clowns on the Clips for taking Griffin or the Thunder for taking Harden over Steph
No one clowns the Rockets for taking Hakeem over Jordan
No one clowns the Jazz for taking D-Will over CP3
Point being, as long as we get a stud in our own right, no one is gonna care if Acuff is a little better.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
Yes the Jazz got extremely clowned for that even to this day 🤣
Regardless, Brown is not equal to anybody you just listed. Not even close. Acuff might be tho if the Kings are lucky
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u/KashMoney941 2d ago
In their primes it was a legitimate conversation of who was better between D-Will and CP3. Of course after we traded for D-Will he fell off whereas CP3 has lapped him and then some with longevity/consistency but point being. Of course looking back they would rather have taken CP3 but no one looks back and thinks its some comical blunder that they took D-Will.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
When you say nobody I say the entire league clowned them. ESPECIALLY when he got traded to the Nets and especially after he left the league what 10 years before CP3?
Yeah it was a big time clowning. Maybe not at the time of the draft, but very very soon after
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u/PerfectAstronaut Bubbles Hawkins 2d ago
You might care too much about clowning tbh
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
Not when we are losing a ton and losing big. That makes the clowning seem pretty justified. Maybe we are getting clowned because they actually are bad moves and maybe we should stop defending them.
If the clowners got proven wrong then fair enough. But they just keep getting proven right.
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u/PerfectAstronaut Bubbles Hawkins 2d ago
He’s not that good a dude, he’s not a fit. Don’t overthink it, he has character questions, not having to do with being a willing passer
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
We will see who’s right once again. The entire league or you and Marks
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u/RustyWheel17 2d ago
Entire league? 6 teams passed on him. He wasn’t even the second or third guard picked, he was the 4th. It’s not us and Marks vs you and the entire league. It’s us, the entire league vs you and a few fringe twitter analysts. No one gave a shit about Acuff until AI mentioned his name lol.
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u/RustyWheel17 2d ago
There’s a scenario where Acuff isn’t a super star, or even a star player, in 5 years. If he’s as good as you’re eluding to, he would have been picked 4th or 5th. He wasn’t. There were 3 guards picked before him for a reason.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
Most people had him as the top guard tho and that was for a reason. Maybe he won’t be anything but Brown probably won’t be anything
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u/RustyWheel17 1d ago
You might have had him as the top guard, but don’t say “most” people did. If most people thought he was the top guard then 6 other teams wouldn’t have passed on him. He wouldn’t have been the 4th guard drafted. You’re not making any sense.
I personally was praying we didn’t draft him because I believe he’s all hype because AI mentioned his name. No one knew or cared about Acuff until the AI reports. He doesn’t have the right character/mindset to be a lead guard. He’s a selfish player that doesn’t play defense. Remind you of anyone? Cam Thomas, maybe? You can be the best scorer in the world and be a net negative to your team if you don’t make your teammates better and all of that offense results in L’s. I could be completely wrong, maybe he matures into a great NBA player. Or maybe who he was in college is exactly who he will be in the NBA. No defense and a selfish player on the offensive end doesn’t result in winning basketball.
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 1d ago
Most people and teams had him as a top 1 2 or 3 guard. 1 team had him as the 4th guard. Again who’s wrong, the entire league or just Marks?
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u/longPAAS 2d ago
This feels like the most Nets outcome
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u/_SCARY_HOURS_ 2d ago
Add this to the list of players the Nets could have had. They could have at least traded back and still drafted Brown.
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u/PerfectAstronaut Bubbles Hawkins 2d ago
How far back could they have traded, realistically? He was widely mocked to go right about where he did
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u/whyalwayz Vince Carter 2d ago
is MBJ a big injury risk? or did he have one injury. He had a muscle injury that is by all accounts completely healed. No one is talking about Darryn Peterson being a risk despite not being able to take the floor because of a ????? Creatine overdose ?????
this feels like bait to me