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New Jersey Nets
Sportsbook.com Nets Odds to win NBA title – 125/1
Key players added – Troy Murphy, Derrick Favors
Key players lost – Courtney Lee
What doesn’t kill you can only make you stronger, and if that’s true the Nets have successfully survived last season’s 12-70 gulag. No one connected with the franchise is looking back, and with pretty good reason. The team will be better this coming season – it’s just a matter of by how much.
In East Rutherford they’re hoping that Brook Lopez continues to improve at the 5, and Troy Murphy will be able to at minimum replicate the 14 and 10 numbers that he gave the Pacers last season. But the big enchilada (Carmelo Antony) remains in Denver for the time being anyway, and new owner Mikhail Prokhorov is still minus the franchise player he so covets. The Russian billionaire has promised fans a title within five years, and if he draws to an inside straight and comes through, it’s a good bet that most of the players on the current roster won’t be the ones hoisting the trophy.
Devin Harris, who has been mentioned in trade talks with the Nuggets, is probably in the top third of point guards in the league, but he’s a score-first guy and only an OK defender. Then again, Harris will have to do some scoring because the Nets traded away their third- and fourth-leading scorers from last season – Courtney Lee and Yi Jianlian. There are high hopes for No. 1 draft choice Derrick Favors, but he’s really a project who’ll have to play because there’s not too much else.
The Nets have taken a step in the right direction by bringing in Avery Johnson as head coach. The young roster figures to listen to Johnson, and the only questions are whether Johnson will be patient enough with the team and the antsy owner will be patient enough with Johnson.
Change has come quickly for this team, as would be expected for a bunch that piled up losses with alarming regularity last season. The only certain is that more changes are on the way – and sooner rather than later.
Surprising stat: Nets were the lowest-scoring team in the league last season (92.4 PPG)
Strengths: Bigs (Lopez, Murphy) aren’t half bad, and adding Anthony would give them a nice front line; Avery Johnson has been around the block
Weaknesses: Age – Scoring will still be a major problem
Playoffs? NO
Win total projection for 2010-11: 26
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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel writer from Massachusetts.
