Jarrett Jack on critics: 'What's the point in really reading into it?'
Jarrett Jack has a big season ahead of him. Taking over as Nets starting point guard is no small task. And though many (if not most) analysts have picked Brooklyn to be even worse than it was last season, when the squad won just 38 games.
But Jack says he's not buying it. From Mitch Abramson of the New York Daily News:
There's no reason to knock Jack for thinking positive. What's he supposed to say? That the Nets are going to be garbage because they lost Deron Williams and Mason Plumlee?
No, he's going to believe that his team will compete just like everyone else in the league. He just might be less right than your average believer.
(h/t Daily News)
"I don't really look into it, I don't put any stock into it," Jack told a small group of reporters Tuesday afternoon at the Southampton Recreation Center on the first day of the Nets Hamptons Basketball Camp in which Jack was the featured guest.
"These opinions or whatever - I don't know what they're formed off of," he went on. "But clearly there's no way to say they're going to be accurate. So what's the point in really reading into it?"
The Nets made a concerted effort this off-season to become younger and more athletic while also getting under the luxury tax threshold. They waived Deron Williams in July and also made a series of low-key, under-the-radar signings that didn't exactly impress the masses.
Jack won't even use the sour estimates as motivation, he said.
"I mean it can be, but it's just to put a lot of energy into something where you're like, 'They don't know, nobody knows what the future holds,'" said Jack, who intends to start working out at the team facility on Sept. 15 and will encourage his teammates to do the same. "Nobody knows what's going to happen anyway, so why put energy into it or pay it any attention?"