Best Friends

“When your best friends all strung out, you’ll do everything you can, cause you’re never gonna let it get’em down.” That is the opening three lines to Foster the Peoples song “Best Friend”.  This relates more to the Nets than you think.  Brooklyn’s two best friends, Deron Williams and Jason Kidd are in a tough spot and both need each other’s help or they’ll both be golfing again very soon.

Deron Williams

            This is the man that it starts and ends with. So far in round one he has been a disappointment, which might as well be on the back of his jersey when we have nickname night again. So far in this series, DWill (he doesn’t deserve the hyphen at this moment) has been awful.  He’s averaging 36 minutes, shooting 39% on 15 shots while shooting 27% from the three, and takes 5 threes a game. But to give him some credit in this series the Nets have an offensive rating of 109 when he’s on the court and a 97 defensive rating. That’s a net rating of 11.9. That is a great number but, it hasn’t been good enough.  DWill must be more aggressive and get to the rim when he settles for jump shots.  He makes it difficult for the Nets to win. If Deron Williams wants the hyphen back he must play a lot better.

Jason Kidd

            When the Nets were struggling in 2013 I was angry, but I wasn’t angry with Jason Kidd. I thought he was doing a good job and he had been great in the regular season, but in the postseason he has probably cost the Nets one game in this series so far. For example Alan Anderson is averaging 19 minutes a game…I REPEAT ALAN ANDERSON 19 MINUTES A GAME!!! When Anderson is on the floor the Nets offensive rating is 87.5, defensive rating is 95.5 a negative net rating of 8. This is the first time I saw these numbers and I am shocked that this guy can play nearly 20 minutes. The numbers clearly prove this game makes the team worst. Andri Kirilenko needs to play more minutes. He’s averaging 17 minutes a game and the Nets are clearly better with him on the court. He has an offensive rating of 116.2, defensive rating 110.9 for a net rating of 5.3. Okay, so AK-47 is clearly the better player and makes the whole team better so let’s play our worst player more than him!!! Jason Kidd logic! Another player played too much is Andray Blatche his numbers are not bad in this series (Net rating -0.8) but it’s still Andray Blatche. Remember when KG drove for the ball in game three and got the crowd pumped up. Well the next day he said he blacked out at that moment and couldn’t explain what he was doing. When I first heard that I thought, wow KG is nuts, but you know what?  I know what he means! Because I did the same thing after Blatche shot that three in game four. Speaking of KG, the key player for the Nets when KG is on the court the Nets offense rating is 111.4, defensive rating is 94.9 for a net rating of PLUS 16.5.  Good thing he only plays 19 minutes a game (hold on a sec *scrolls up the page*) ALAN ANDERSON AND KG PLAY THE SAME AMOUNT OF MINUTES!!! I wish I can find words to explain this but I simply can’t.  Wait, you know what?  I can. Stupid, just Stupid!

All stats came from NBA.com/stats

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