What Should The Nets Do With Brook Lopez?

[jonathanlambert33]

Jason Kidd loves to run, ran the Nets to a franchise record 19 fast break points a game in 2001-02, despite having two plodding centers, Todd MacCulloch, who was 7'3" and Jason Collins, three inches shorter. Kidd would find Big Todd in the paint, knowing his bulk and great hands would often result in an easy basket.

Now as coach, there's little doubt Kidd would like to run again. Brook Lopez is immensely more talented offensively than either MacColloch or Collins but can't run and the rest of the Nets line-up doesn't measure up to that racehorse conference championship group. There's no Kerry Kittles, no Richard Jefferson, certainly no Kenyon Martin and as we know, Deron Williams isn't Jason Kidd either.

So do the Nets give up on the 26-year-old seven-footer with the reconstructed foot whose missed 134 games out of a possible 230 in the past three seasons? Not likely now, when his trade value is low. Beckley Mason, writing for ESPN suggested a month ago that maybe the Nets should trade Lopez for Danilo Gallinari and a pick. But isn't that just trading a foot for a knee? The 6'10" Italian sharpshooter lost more than a full season to a torn ACL and that injury, like a broken foot, has a history of recurring.

http://www.netsdaily.com/2014/5/17/5726036/the-future-of-brook-lopez-may-depend-not-just-on-his-foot-but-his

 

[Thomas-Panda-Saxby]

Sweet talk him into retiring.