Pundits like Nets moves, take mercy on power rankings

Pundits seem to be incorporating the Nets "staff changes" in their power rankings this week. Despite winning one game and losing three, the Nets for the most part stayed where they were last weekend when Billy King was "reassigned" and Lionel Hollins was dumped.

Here they are. (We will continue to humor Yahoo! Sports which ranks teams by how interesting they are.)

John Schuhmann, NBA.com (27)

The Nets saw some offensive improvement in their first week under coach Tony Brown, but it was mostly from his new starting lineup, which was a plus-19 over their last three games. All other lineups were a minus-53 and the Nets had a couple of rough second halves against Portland and Atlanta. As it has…