Sean Marks may have slipped on Friday night when he summarized things by saying, “We’ve got a long way to go.” That’s progress. He has long said, “We’ve a long, long way to go.”
So a telling one less “long” on the trail to contention or was it a slip of the tongue? We don’t know. But Marks said enough when talking to the New York media to indicate that he and the Nets aren’t abandoning their strategic plans. Keep roster building mostly organic, understand the role of continuity, and strengthen that culture that everyone believes is at the core of whatever success the Nets have.