The challenge the Nets are facing with their huge draft haul

Having five first-round picks is a First World problem.But that doesn’t change the fact the Nets have a challenge in front of them: How to develop them all?This draft class is going to be the foundation of Brooklyn’s rebuild.

How can they possibly hope to give the entire quintet enough playing time — much less attention and tutelage — to see them all grow into what the Nets will need them to be?“That’s a good question,” Jordi Fernández said.“They’re going to have to earn it.

That’s how it should be.They’ll put the work in.

They’ve already shown who they are.That’s why we drafted them.“Then it’s going to be my decision to go and put five guys on the court, to have a 10-man rotation and go through the process.

That’s definitely on me.Player development is going to be important.

We’ve been very diligent.The coaching staff has done a great job making our guys work, and those guys have improved.

And we believe [the draftees] will do the same thing.”Those draftees are lottery pick Egor Demin, followed by Nolan Traoré, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf.That’s as many first-rounders as the Nets have drafted in the prior eight years combined, and more than any team in NBA history.

There’s no playbook for trying to develop them simultaneously.These are uncharted waters.“Yeah, we never have three tables up here, so that shows you the size of the draft class, right?” GM Sean Marks said at Tuesday’s introductory news conference.“This is great.

It was a unique opportunity for us, to be quite frank.“We’ve never had five picks in one draft.To be able to draft all of them in a draft class we just saw, that was unique.

That was something we want to take advantage of, especially in our build, where we see these young men fitting into our group and into our roster.So, it was about us capitalizing on the hand we were dealt.”That hand was picks scattered throughout the first round.Conventional wisdom was that the Nets...