The Nets may finally be getting the picture. And that picture is power.<\/p>\n
After the Nets spent season after season drafting waifish willows, the NBA playoffs increasingly have been dominated by strength, force and physicality. The rugged crosstown rival Knicks rode those bully-ball traits to a championship.<\/p>\n
It took years, but the Nets finally got the memo \u2014 and have made a concerted effort to get bigger and bulkier this offseason, first trading lithe center Nic Claxton for burly forward Julius Randle<\/a> last Monday, then drafting similarly-built Joshua Jefferson<\/a> in the first round one night later.<\/p>\n Can they go from being light in the ass to being able to play booty ball?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets may finally be getting the picture. And that picture is power. After the Nets spent season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,2299,3822,1247,6,12,671,2728,3823,3596,66,196],"class_list":["post-774450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-inside-the-nets","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nets","tag-nic-claxton","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sean-marks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116838798685103833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}