Tag: 2024-25 brooklyn nets

Will this season with the Brooklyn Nets be Ben Simmons’ comeback — or his last?

The clock is quickly running out on the Australian swingman’s chances.

Will this season with the Brooklyn Nets be Ben Simmons’ comeback — or his last playing pro basketball at the NBA level? The former top forward has seen a plethora of injuries coupled with a growing lack of confidence in his shot diminish his ability to stay on the floor in Brooklyn.

Will this be the season Simmons finally turns it around for good? Or is this a prelude to him taking his talents abroad — or to retirement from the game altogether? The clock is quickly running out on the Australian swingman’s chances to return to his former levels of play with the Nets.

The hosts of the “Locked on Nets” podcast, Adam Armbrecht and Doug Norrie, took some time on a recent episode of their show to dive deep into the Simmons situation and how they see it playing out this season.

Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what they had to say about the future of Ben in Brooklyn.

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Who should start for the Brooklyn Nets to start the 2024-25 NBA season?

Could players like Noah Clowney and Day’ron Sharpe actually end up in a starting role?

Who should start for the Brooklyn Nets to start the 2024-25 NBA season? Such a question would normally be pretty easy to answer for fans of the ball club, given the presence of seasoned vets like Dennis Schroder, Cam Johnson, Dorian Finney-Smith, and Nic Claxton.

But there is a fairly good chance that one or more of them will be dealt away for draft assets and younger players before opening night now that the free agency log jams have mostly ended. Could players like Noah Clowney and Day’ron Sharpe actually end up in a starting role come the league’s opening night for the Nets?

It presents quite an interesting thought experiment for fans of the team to work through. And that is what the hosts of the “Nets Kingdom” explored on a recent episode of their show. Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about who they think will star for Brooklyn.

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On Dennis Schroder, the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the 2024-25 Brooklyn Nets season ahead

Did Schroder boost his trade value despite Germany not medaling?

His German National Team may not have ended up on the podium for Men’s 5 × 5 basketball in the 2024 Paris Olympics, but veteran Brooklyn Nets floor general Dennis Schroder still managed to boost his potential trade value with his play there.

The folks behind the “Nets Kingdom” podcast recently took a closer look at Schroder’s Olympic experience and how it might affect Brooklyn in the future. They also talked about the German point guard being asked if the rest of the world is catching up with the US National Team in men’s basketball. He replied “I think European basketball is no entertainment; it’s straight IQ basketball, straight coaching, and really, really high IQ guys who know how to play the game … of course the (NBA) is the best league in the world, but the Europeans, they’re coming for sure.”

Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about Schroder, the Olympics, trades, and more.

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How can Cam Thomas grow into his role as a point guard for the Brooklyn Nets?

Is he ready to take on such a role for Brooklyn in the coming campaign?

How can Cam Thomas grow into his role as a point guard for the Brooklyn Nets in the 2024-25 NBA season ahead? Now that the ball club has picked a direction (namely, playing a little ‘capture the Flagg’ by strip mining the roster for assets), the hierarchy of the Nets’ backcourt has come into a sharper focus. The trade of Mikal Bridges and the departure of Dennis Smith Jr. ought to open up plenty of time for Thomas to spread his wings.

Is he ready to take on such a role for Brooklyn in the coming campaign? If so, he will need to work in tandem with his teammates on shoring up the Nets’ weaknesses on the offensive side of the court.

To talk over Thomas’ role with the team in the season ahead, the hosts of the “Locked on Nets” podcast, Adam Armbrecht and Doug Norrie, took some time on a recent episode. Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say.

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Can Dennis Schroder be the veteran leader in the Brooklyn Nets tank season?

Does the roster need a veteran player like Schroder to instill professionalism into the team’s young players?

Can Dennis Schroder be the veteran leader in the Brooklyn Nets tank season? The Brooklyn Nets have picked their path forward into the future, strip-mining the roster for future assets and young talent as the ball club commits to a full rebuild.

And with that full rebuild comes a whole lot of questions about the identity and hierarchy of the team moving forward. Will the team identity matter, given few if any players on the roster now might be on the team when it is over? Or does the roster need a veteran player like Schroder to instill professionalism into the team’s young players, regardless of where they will be playing in a few seasons?

The hosts of the “Locked On Nets” podcast took some time on a recent episode of their show to talk over this very question. Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about the role of Schroder and the identity of the team at the start of a major rebuild.

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