Nets carrying delusional confidence they can defy odds with lofty win goal

Oddmakers project the Nets will win fewer than 25 games.The delusionally confident Nets think they can win twice that many. They’ve set it as a goal, talking about it privately and now publicly. “That’s the goal from Day 1.

We said our goal is to get 50 wins,” Terance Mann said Monday when asked by The Post about trying to lead a young, inexperienced group that, heretofore, has no idea how to win. “So you’re going to have to go in there with the mentality that we’re going to get 50 wins.And that’s through the guys with years [of experience] leading that.

Most of us came from winning situations, so we know what it takes, and that’s just what we’re going to do.” It’s the start of training camp, so hope springs eternal.It just isn’t shared by many outside of the Nets locker room. And they’re fine with that. Their projected win total opened at just 19.5 and has climbed to 24.5 behind encouraging summers from 20-year-olds Egor Dëmin and Mikel Brown Jr., and what should be a potent frontcourt duo of vets Michael Porter Jr.

and Julius Randle. “Man, at the end of the day, we’re just trying to win,” Brown said. Granted, they’re still projected to be among the league’s worst teams. Still, Porter was the first Net to publicly predict a 50-win campaign.And even though he admits his answer was to a leading question by controversial streamer N3on, Porter said what he said, and is standing by it. “Yeah, I mean the question was framed like he said, ‘Can you guys win 50 games?’ Of course I’m not going to say, ‘No, we can’t win 50 games,’” Porter said.

“And I do genuinely believe you’re supposed to go out on the floor every night with delusional confidence and compete to win.And I do think we have the players that every single night our goal should be to win.

And we can win. “Yeah, obviously the NBA is stacked right now.The Eastern Conference is stacked.

There’s a lot of good teams.But we definitely did ...