Among players likely available this week, no lineup appeared in more than eight separate games. Entering the postseason, what do you make of this team? Seth Partnow: It’s hard to recall a team that we knew less about entering a postseason than this Nets group. Injuries and replacement players are a whole different conversation. The offense never flirted with the historic efficiency of last season. Their defense was top-five at the beginning of the year and ended the year below average. It started with Kyrie Irving being sidelined because of his reluctance to get vaccinated and become eligible to play at Barclays Center, featured a blockbuster trade before the deadline to break up their super team and ended with a late rally to secure the top spot in the Play-In Tournament. Alex Schiffer: The Nets’ regular season has been one wild ride.
To try to make sense of the team The Athletic’s Nets beat writer Alex Schiffer caught up with our resident analytics expert Seth Partnow to try to gauge the team after a wild, unpredictable regular season. After a wild regular season, the Nets enter this week still banged up and with little known about them as a fully healthy unit. Perhaps no team in the Play-In or the playoffs is as volatile as Brooklyn.
A self-proclaimed bad driver when he got his licence at 27. Having secured the top spot in the Play-In Tournament, the Nets face a rematch with the Cavaliers on Tuesday with a trip to Boston on the line. He's the host of the reality TV series, Canada's Worst Driver, but Andrew Younghusband could also have been a contender on the show.
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