Nets Depth Tested

It was viewed by many, and rightfully so, that the Brooklyn Nets were supposed to take a significant step forward this season. They made the playoffs a season ago, and did so under .500 at 35-37. Kyrie only played twenty games and Durant never saw the floor. They got into the playoffs mostly on role players. One of them being Spencer Dinwiddie. With Kyrie and Durant back in uniform, Dinwiddie was moved to the third staring role on this team. That was until Sunday night. Spencer hurt his left knee in the Nets 106-104 loss to the Hornets, tearing his ACL and ending his season.

The way things were shaping up, Dinwiddie was set to take flight in this new role. After all, he was coming off a big year last year, establishing a career high 20.6 PPG average. It was only the third time in his career he averaged over double digits in points in a season, all coming over the last three seasons he's played as a member of the Nets. he was becoming a key piece of this basketball club over the last three seasons and last year he was huge when Kyrie went down.

Looking towards the rest of this season, the Nets have a couple of options they could go with at shooting guard to replace Dinwiddie. Caris LeVert has already been penciled in on the depth charts by rookie coach Steve Nash as the starter. He's not the only option. They have another decent fit there too in Landry Shamet, who has hit almost 40% of his three pointers in his career. This does leave me to wonder, how well will this combination, or whoever else coach Nash decides to throw in there,. hold up?

Durant and Irving are going to need a solid three to really be able to run the offense with, the two of them can't carry the load every night. Only time will tell who can really step up and fill the hole left by Dinwiddie's injury. This also leaves one to wonder what could happen with Spencer after this season. He's going to want to come back and show he still got plenty left in the tank and will be ready to go by the start of next season. He does have a $12.3 million option for next season. It up to him whether he wants to stay in Brooklyn one more year or hit the market at the end of the season. It would be smart to keep the option, play next year in Brooklyn on a healthy leg and see what happens for the season after that