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Nets slapped with a pitiful “F” mark in The Ringer’s team season progress assessment
After generating tons of promise before the season started, the Brooklyn Nets are now hobbling to reach the finish line of the 2023-24 campaign. From injuries, inconsistencies, and unforeseen personnel changes, it has been a furious heck of a year for the entire ball club. And the danger of missing the postseason with a miserable 22-36 just accumulates all of the frustration and disappointment that they are currently enduring.
Along with the general struggles that they've encountered, they enter a dire regard coming from The Ringer as they obtained a woeful grade on their season progress thus far.
Nets got slapped with a depressing fail mark
In her grading for every NBA team’s season, The Ringer NBA writer Seerat Sohi stamped a failing “F” mark on the Brooklyn Nets' report card.
From the deteriorating fan support, the dismissal of Jacque Vaughn, their undetermined offense-defense identity, and Mikal Bridges being a miscast No. 1 option, Sohi considers the Nets’ campaign as a major mess with a clueless direction to take.
“The Barclays Center has the energy of a dilapidated WeWork building: empty, aside from spare parts that remind you of the Nets’ once promising auspices and cataclysmic failure, the muted color palette and plain hardwood suggesting a preference for versatility and functionality over a set-in-stone identity. That’s exactly who the Brooklyn Nets, worse in record than talent, are a team that can’t decide what it wants to be and isn’t doing much of anything as a result.”
Dilemma in keeping Mikal
As Bridges continues to slump in his role as the lead man alongside the Nets’ collective woes, Sohi is intrigued with the franchise's hesitancy to part ways with him despite past reports suggesting that the Houston Rockets are willing to give them lucrative draft assets in return. She speculates if their stubbornness towards Bridges can replicate the team's past scenario with Kevin Durant, who ultimately landed them a massive haul in a blockbuster trade with the Phoenix Suns.
“You can’t help but wonder whether they would have been better off trading Bridges to the Rockets in exchange for the picks they relinquished in the James Harden deal and trading everyone else after that. Now, the Nets are positioned to overpay Nic Claxton to retain him. On the other hand, their stubborn insistence on keeping Kevin Durant as long as they did last season is why they were able to get Bridges, Johnson, and a hoard of picks for him.”
