The Brooklyn Nets will enter this season with actual optimism. The Detroit Pistons will enter with massive questions. Only one can prevail.
Is it just me, or does it seem like the Brooklyn Nets actually have some optimism coming into the 2018-19 NBA season?
There is hope in the air in New York’s famous borough that the Nets won’t stink this season. Last year was as dark as the team’s away uniforms, but now, the Nets are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. For the first time in what seems like forever, the team will actually have a draft pick this upcoming summer, and the team has a few pieces that should get Nets fans excited about the season to come.
We’ll see if the Nets have actually improved when they open the season in “The Pizza Box,” where their opening opponent, the Detroit Pistons, are going through a bit of change. Last season was supposed to continue their trajectory back to relevance, but a dreadful January in which they went 3-11, doomed this team, and they finished the year 39-43 and out of the playoffs.
The Pistons losing season cost Stan Van Gundy his job but replacing him is Dwane Casey, the former Toronto Raptors coach, who will bring about major changes in Motown. A big question mark surrounding the 2018-19 version of the Pistons is, whether or not, Blake Griffin can actually morph into a franchise player?
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 17
Time: 7 p.m EST
Location: Detroit, MI
Venue: Little Ceasars Arena
TV Info: YES Network (Nets), Fox Sports Detroit (Pistons)
Live Stream: FuboTV (sign-up for a free seven-day trial), NBA League Pass (three hours post-game)
If Griffin can take off, the Pistons have the pieces, and the coach, to make some noise in the East and should be a threat to an upper-tier playoff team. If not? Then, it’s going to be a long season in Motown.