Quite the week. The Brooklyn Nets dropped two slots in the Draft Lottery, from sixth to eighth, no doubt shifting the team’s off-season thinking while reinvigorating the fan debate over how much tanking should the Nets have done.
Of course, the lottery isn’t the draft nor the rebuild. It’s ALL the picks and their development plus ALL that cap space that matters now, the end of Season One of a multi-year rebuild. it’s possible they could make a short-term move up, which is rare because it is difficult, so that seems unlikely.
You have to hope that the skills of the scouting staff which has had a good record with low picks, plus the sheer quantify of picks — at Nos.