Just when they started settling in, the Brooklyn Nets swept the rug out from under their fans in Rip City last night.
After two deals shipping out veterans, compounded with some choice words from Sean Marks about the team’s intentions this season, dropping games to preserve advantageous draft positioning has looked more and more the plan for the Nets over the past month and a half. The team stacking five straight losses in eight days only reinforced that.
Like the walls of Shawshank, first we hated those loses, then we got used to ‘em.