With the first game of the season less than a week away, the New Jersey Nets still have some shop keeping to do, as they still have plenty of decisions to make. Aside from Vince Carter and Devin Harris, every spot in the starting lineup is wide open. The Nets have a lot of depth this season and have some size than I’ve seen in quite some time from them, but that doesn’t make any of the decisions any easier. Especially considering the fact that many of the players involved are youngsters that need considerable playing time in order to thrive, Nets coach Laurence Frank will have plenty of decisions to make over the next few days.
 
In spite of that though, the players themselves feel comfortable where the team is going this season and aren’t worried about a sloppy preseason that has produced a less than mediocre 2-4 record. Instead, they are focusing on all the hard work they did this offseason and regardless of what anyone else believes, they feel they are ready to challenge for a playoff spot.
 
“The summer really helped us,” said Carter to Yahoo Sports. “From the first day of practice, we didn’t have to play catch-up in camp. When we started camp, we started like any other (veteran) team as far as familiarity, understanding what guys like to do and don’t like to do.”
 
Well, that’s exactly what you want to hear if you are a fan of this team. These guys knew they had a lot of work ahead of themselves this offseason and at the very least they will start the season on the right page and won’t need a few weeks to get to know everyone’s games.
 
On another note, has anyone seen the Youtube video of Devin Harris getting schooled by British street ball legend Stuart Tanner? If you haven’t, you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, as the video has gotten over four million hits since October 10. Nonetheless, there is more to the video than meets the eye.

 
“When I first went out there, they told me one of the Special Olympic kids wanted to play me one-on-one,” Harris explained to Yahoo Sports. “So I went down there, shot jumpshots or whatever. So he hit the first shot, and I was like, ‘Okay, he has a little talent.’ Then he just whipped out the other thing. I was kind of confused at that point with all these dribbling moves and before I knew, he threw it through my legs and laid it up. At that point it was time to go. So they had fun with it, they got me pretty good. I didn’t expect it to be that popular, but it is what it is.”