Season-In-Review: Jordan Farmar

Ugh, I miss this guy already. What I don’t miss? The empty seats behind him in this picture.

This post, along with the other posts I will do in the Season-In-Review series, will take a deeper look at how all the Nets did last season on the court and possibly off of it. We continue with Jordan Farmar. I covered Kris Humphries last.

March 7th, 2012. The game was just another run-of-the-mill Nets-Clippers game at the Prudential Center on a Wednesday night, except that it was one the Nets won. The game had the feel of many the Nets have played in recent years against playoff teams: They race ahead to a quick lead, but watch their lead slowly deteriorate as the game progresses. In this one, two Chris Paul free throws gave the Clips their first lead of the game with 8.9 seconds, putting them ahead 100-98. Then, magic happened.

Deron Williams sent a beautiful cross-court skip pass to Jordan Farmar who sunk a rainbow three-pointer with 0.2 seconds left to give the Nets their 13th win on the season and a signature win over one of the West’s better teams. Farmar scored 16 points in 19 minutes of play in that game, something not completely out of the ordinary for the former Laker to do in his two seasons in Jersey.

Jordan has made many plays like that one against the Clippers in his career, both when he was part of a Los Angeles Lakers team that won back-to-back NBA championships in the 2009 and 2010 campaigns and when he was in New Jersey with a Nets team that couldn’t have been further from the Finals.

Even with all of the losing that he wasn’t accustomed too, Farmar was a great team player and back-up point guard who when needed to fill in and start on occasion, filled in the void graciously and showed that if given the proper opportunity, he could be a starter in the NBA.

And all of a sudden, when it appeared that he would be Deron Williams’ back-up in Brooklyn, Billy King flipped Farmar to the Hawks as part of the small army of players the Nets sent to Atlanta in exchange for Joe Johnson. Then, inexplicably, Atlanta bought out Farmar, who would probably be their 2nd-in-command point guard to Jeff Teague for this upcoming season. After his by-out, he signed with a team in Turkey and instead of helping the Nets debut the Barclays Center this year, he’ll be playing in a country in Asia. Interesting.