Well Nets fans, the season has begun.

With one game already under their belts, the team is on pace for an undefeated season and has four players looking at 1,000 point seasons, in Vince Carter, Jarvis Hayes, Yi Jianlian and Devin Harris.

Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves here.

Even though the Nets won their first game of the season over the Washington Wizards, things are only going to get more difficult from here.

Coach Lawrence Frank knows this better than anyone.

“We’re not going to be a finished product now,” the coach said to the AP after the game. “This is going to be an evolving thing—clean up and improve and continue to put in things whenever the group is ready for it. We have hardly anything in.”

Guys like Jianlian [who looked extremely solid in his first game and may in fact be able to live up to the hype this season if he isn’t over exposed early on] and Hayes helped out by going a combined 13 for 20 from the field and in the end, contributions like that have to be almost every night occurrence for this team to stay above water. Josh Boone and Brooklyn Lopez also played well too, and should be able to provide a solid presence down low this season. That to me is a good sign that this team understands what they have to do this season and all that extra time spent together during the summer is looking to have paid off.

Aside from that, it’s a little weird to see Sean Williams sit this one out and it makes you wonder if Frank is going to ostracize another first round pick this season. Simply put, they have to find minutes for this guy. Once Eduardo Najera comes back, it’s not going to be easier either, so he has to earn his bumps and bruises now.

In other news, the Nets picked up the options of Boone, Jianlian and Williams, keeping the size and strength they’ve lacked over the past few years, locked up for another season. That’s good news if you ask me. Seriously, how solid could the Nets have been last season if they had that much depth at power forward and center? Wait, aside from Yi, they had Boone and Williams last season, so what was missing? I don’t know, maybe a bit of polish as Williams and Boone both showed how green they were as the season wore on the Nets flubbed their way out of a playoff spot.

Let’s hope the added depth turns this team into heroes, rather than…what they ended up being last season.