Let the trash talk begin. The real NBA season is in full swing now and tonight the Brooklyn Nets host the Miami Heat. With the regular season just starting, you expect teams to be confident about what they can do against the rest of the league. But when you say your team is better than the two-time defending champions, well you have to go out there and back that up. Hit the jump to see what Deron said.
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I don’t know if we felt we were a better team than the Heat last year,” Williams said during a sitdown with first-year Brooklyn coach Jason Kidd for ESPN’s “SportsCenter” conversation. “And so I think in order for us to be able to beat them this year, we have to feel like we are a better team and we can beat them. And I think we do.”
“They [Pierce and Garnett] definitely have their rivalries, their dislikes,” Williams said. “As a team, if one guy has a beef with somebody, we all have a beef with them. That is how we are going to attack it this year.”
“Our mentality has changed,” said Williams, who played just 22 minutes due to a minutes restriction for his ankle in a 98-94 loss at Cleveland on Wednesday. “That is how you got to attack it if you want to win a championship. You got to feel like you are the best team. I am sure they feel like they are the best team, the Bulls feel like they are the best team, Oklahoma City feels like they are the best team.
“That is the way we are going to attack it.”
You have to like the confidence, but also at the same time do we really expect him to say the Heat are better? Either way tonight will be the Nets first chance to show they can compete with the champs.
