Been a pretty fun start to the season. Lot of excitement coming into the year due to the new additions, the J’s getting more into their prime, and also with Coach Mazzulla finally getting the staff he wants along with a full year and camp as a head coach under his belt.
But what has shocked you the most so far?
For me it’s gotta be the 2 man game between JB and KP. 2 all stars working well together isn’t uncommon but I never expected this kind of chemistry and bond between these two to be so seamless so quickly. It’s awesome to watch out there.
Honestly, I did come in with sky high expectations. That being said the biggest deviation from my expectations is that even with KP, we are STILL failing to move the ball around or sufficiently create off-ball opportunities at a rate that is reasonable. We are STILL falling into iso habits and taking turns. They’ve shown glimpses of what’s possible, and the JB/KP pairing has been the source of a lot of those glimpses, but they need to be doing that shit every half court possession. The Bulls game showed some promise: guys were cutting to the basket, guys were crashing the boards for rebounds, but even in the Bulls game, when we might have needed to win by 45 or 50 and legit could have (fortunately the Nets won so we didn’t need to) you still had the starters getting lazy half way through the 4th and taking their foot off the gas. I honestly think they put the bench back in with 2 minutes left because the bench was still trying and the starters weren’t. We are not being ruthless enough, and its costing us at times.