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Since Lawrence Frank’s reassignment, the Nets have lost 111-87 and 113-83, to the Nuggets and Knicks at home. Clearly, this was not what Jason Kidd hoped for when he severed his partnership with his former mentor and friend.

This means something simple: The Nets must relieve Kidd of his duties, either by giving him a different organizational role or letting him go entirely. The Knicks have often been criticized for something that the Nets appear guilty of in hiring Jason Kidd: violating the cardinal rule.

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Needless to say, a 2-5 start is not what any Net fan envisioned this year. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Andrei Kirilenko have come to play our weakest positions. Gone is Avery Johnson’s isolation regime, replaced with Jason Kidd and an all star staff of assistants. And with four starters back from last year (including our top three players), we did not lose much from what was a 49-33 group.

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The Nets have some fond memories of facing the Indiana Pacers last season, sweeping their season series 3-0. In their first matchup at the Barclays Center on January 13, the Nets ran their record to 8-1 under PJ Carlesimo in a game in which they struggled, but throttled the Pacers 28-11 in the fourth quarter to score a quality 97-86 victory. Then on February 11, the Nets beat the Pacers in Indiana, 89-84 in what was an extremely low scoring overtime game. The game was memorable because Tyshawn Taylor scored 12 points, ran the team extremely well, and played high quality defense, as Deron Williams sat out with an ankle injury with the Nets resting him before the all star break. Finally, on April 12, the Nets won 117-109 in Indiana once again behind an impressive 33 point, 14 assist performance from Williams.

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Coming into the offseason, it would be fair to say that the Nets were the east’s 5th best team.  With limited options due to being over the salary cap through 2016, Mikhail Prokhorov and Billy King brought the Nets a stroke of magic by trading for Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Jason Terry, and signing Andrei Kirilenko with the mini midlevel exception. The move shored up the Nets’ weaknesses defensively, dramatically improved the team’s three point shooting, and has given the team an attitude, a personality, that it did not have last season.

The Heat are the champs, but the Nets come into the 2013-2014 in stride with the Pacers, Bulls, and Knicks as teams with hopes to knock the champs off their perch.  Over my next four articles, I will look into how the Nets match up with all four of their rivals.  Today, I start with the Heat.

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When Billy King worked to build Brooklyn’s first team last season, he prioritized versatility.  King saw it as important that the Nets have a roster that could go small or big, and use different types of lineup combinations. Unfortunately, despite a high talent level, things did not play out that way in the Nets’ inaugural season in Brooklyn.

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