“We want to be as good as we can be all the time. We think it’s important,” Thorn recently told the New Jersey Star Ledger. “We still think we have a pretty good nucleus of players here, that we can be pretty good. I can’t say we want to take a massive step back, no.

“If you have the opportunity to get a core of younger players — (such as) with the addition of Harris — and get some guys around that age group that can be really good, then you always look at that. But those opportunities don’t come up very often. But we want to be good. We want to do as well as we can do.”

When I read this quote on Tuesday, I basically thought to myself, “Does this mean that Thorn is saying that he wants to build through the draft and get two solid additions to the team this year? Or is he saying that he’s going to trade up and get one solid, young perimeter shooter to complement the new big three? Or is he looking to get a big man to help the youngsters like Josh Boone and Sean Williams develop?

Star Ledger Dave D’Allesandro does a great job in this article [and he usually does] showing how unsure Thorn is in what the Nets approach will be next season. He also goes on to call him a riddler of sorts and I’d have to totally agree with him.

This team’s bench is probably going to be the thing that changes the most this offseason, with DeSagana Diop, Darnell Armstrong and Boki Nachbar all free agents. The Nenad Krstic situation may become and interesting one, but I really see him staying with the Nets. I don’t think too many teams would be willing to take a change on him just yet. Nachbar on the other hand, may be looking at a healthy raise this offseason and I doubt the Nets will be offering to go as high as he would like. Playing injured the last quarter and change of the season, Nachbar showed a lot of intestinal fortitude and GM’s that already love the guy when he’s shooting well are probably salivating like Pavlovian dogs right now.

While it’s still way too early to see where some of the Nets free agents are going, it will be interesting to see who Thorn decides to keep and why.