The Brooklyn Nets are ranked as the 13th best team in the NBA in Bleacher Report’s latest power rankings. The last time B/R did their power rankings, the Nets were ranked as the 16th-best team in the league. Interestingly, Brooklyn is ranked ahead of the 14th-ranked Minnesota Timberwolves and the 12th-ranked Golden State Warriors.
As for playoff seeding, the Nets are the sixth seed in the Eastern Conference and would be the last time to make the playoffs if the season ends today. However, Brooklyn is two behind the fifth-seeded New York Knicks and 1.5 games ahead of the seventh-seeded Miami Heat. With 12 games left in their season, Brooklyn must end the season on a high if they are to avoid the play-in tournament portion.
Six of the Nets’ 11 opponents to finish the season (they play the Cleveland Cavaliers twice in a home-and-away series) are currently in the playoffs or in their respective conference playoffs. As Brooklyn continues its two-game losing streak in Sunday’s game against the Western Conference-leading Denver Nuggets, the Nets have already beaten the Nuggets. Here’s what B/R had to say about the Nets’ placement on the roster:
“It’s taken a while to figure out what the new-look Brooklyn Nets will look like, which is why they’ve bounced up the rankings over the past few weeks.
What has become clear, however, is that Brooklyn has enough talent to compete, as evidenced by a 2-2 week (and a 5-3 record in the Nets’ last eight).
With Mikal Bridges, Cameron Johnson, Dorian Finney-Smith and Royce O’Neale, this roster has tons of defensive versatility.
While his three-point shooting has given up on him (he’s 29.5% from deep since the trade), Spencer Dinwiddie has seemed comfortable in his return to the role of primary playmaker. In 15 games with Brooklyn, Dinwiddie had 18.1 points and 7.8 assists.
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