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The Big Sick

With franchise cornerstone A.J. Hammons spending the whole season in the G-League, the team needed to turn somewhere and they found Omer "The Big Sick" Asik fresh out of the hospital and ready to sit on an NLL bench near you. Asik was once lauded as untouchable by at least one organization and at this point is fully prepared to play multiple minutes if needed due to injury or foul trouble.

Week 6 marked the second consecutive winning week for the Nets - who seem to be fairly healthy and figuring things out. There was legitimate concern for the first 4 weeks of the year that the team may be in the uneviable position of lottery-bound without their own draft pick. Weeks 5 and 6 have seen the team go 6-3 and nearing the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff standings. There is a bit of confidence that it's a matter of time until they arrive in the top 8, but it's tough to be too sure with how the season has started.

On the injury side of things everything is finally looking as it should - with all of the main players healthy and Danilo Gallinari taking up residence on the IR. He's been a literal pain in the ass this season - already sustaining his second butt injury (different cheek than the first). He's only appeared in 9 games, and while managing to put up 12/5/3, he's done it on awful percentages. The team really needed him to stretch the floor alongside Khris Middleton this season, and really just has not gotten that.

Speaking of Middleton, his punishment trip to the bench in weeks 3 and 4 must have worked - since he got back in week 5, he's filled the 4th option role exactly as the team had hoped... putting up ~11 points per game at great efficiency. There is still more room for growth there, and there is a lot that Khris can provide the team that he isn't already - but he's at least a positive impact in his role currently.

On the NBA Watch side of things, everybody has looked pretty good. Gallinari getting his butt in order would be the most helpful for the team. We've started to get some questions about whether or not the team is concerned about De'Aaron Fox's lack of productivity - but at this point the team is very bullish on his future with the organization and not even considering looking elsewhere. DeAndre, Khris, Demar, and Eric are all in a position where they could compete for a slot on the all-star team in the NBA, while only DeMar and DeAndre are looking like they have much of a chance in the NLL.

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