The Nets flew under the radar this off-season with marginal moves — or to put it more frankly, nothing significant enough to provoke championship visions for even the optimists. Of course, that doesn’t make them incapable, it just means they’re back tempering expectations and building out from square one.
Round it all up and you’ve got a group of individuals with something to prove, an area they’ve thrived when the lights weren’t too bright.
“We have all put ourselves in a position to have an exciting few years here where we’ve got a much younger roster than we’ve had in the past and a lot of guys have chips on their shoulders which I think is pretty important,” GM Sean Marks told Jason Prime of New Zealand’s Weekend Sport on OMNY FM.