Nets Adding Dwight Still Won’t be Enough. Unless…
The Brooklyn Nets have already inked Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace this off-season. If they get Dwight, we’re talking “holy shit” good, but only if they keep the one man that will make this whole thing work. Deron Williams has proven that he can be one of, if not the best point guard in the NBA. Give him Dwight Howard alone and we are talking a double-double every game. The Net’s front office will have to figure out how to keep Williams, while also adding Howard. Not an easy task, but it’s a must if they want to have the success they are looking for. Having a player like Joe Johnson on the outside will make double teaming Howard dangerous, and lets not forget Williams can pop some three’s, too.
How they fill in the pieces around such a potentially nasty core will be difficult and as we all know from watching the Heat last year, those bench players do matter. They mattered for the Mavericks, they mattered for the Heat, they matter for everyone. A core of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, and Dwight Howard seems like it will be close to deadly regardless, and it probably will be, assuming it happens. Gerald Wallace will chime in with what will be a support role, and as we saw last year with Portland, he can play great offense at times. If this somehow does happen (which I hope it does) a Nets/Heat match up would be the best Eastern Conference finals I have ever witnessed in my NBA viewing career. However, we might as well skip the regular season. (Sorry Anthony Davis, you’re screwed) Maybe David “the worm” Stern will have something to say about it.
