The Nets are built the old fashioned way, they put together three superstars and then signed a bunch of aging ring chasers. But this is the flip side of the pace & space era. Those aging ring chasers struggle with speed and quickness.
Boston was in the unique position of being run by contemporary coach that was a forward defensive thinker. Boston is built to defend in this era, it’s tough to swing the ball side to side against all those long, quick defenders that are death on passing lanes. Especially when those guys are young and durable, they only have two guys on the wrong side of thirty, and Theis only just. And they’ll be adding another guy like this next year in Begarin and there’s always the chance that Nesmith gets himself untied on the offensive end.