With only four games remaining and a playoff birth an almost certain impossibility, the New Jersey Nets still haven’t begun to think about what they’ll do with the pending free agents on their roster come this offseason.

“It’s still too early,” team president Rod Thorn told the Bergen Record. “I want to wait until we get to the end and then dispassionately look at the whole thing. Right now, you have opinions about certain guys, but we’ll wait until this is over, see what else is out there, and what the costs are going to be.”

Darrell Armstrong, Nenad Krstic, DeSagana Diop and Bostjan Nachbar, the quartet of players in question, represent a huge part of the team’s depth. Armstrong provides veteran leadership but may be expendable if Marcus Williams develops into the type of player the Nets envisioned when they drafted him in the first round a few years ago. Diop is a solid shot blocker who can play both forward and center but, just like Armstrong, could prove to be dispensable if Sean Williams can stay out of foul trouble and guard more efficiently against the pick and roll.

However, despite his arguable worth to the Nets, Diop said that he likes playing in the Garden State. Nonetheless, he has his own demands if he sticks around after the season is over.

“I just want to win. That’s what it comes down to,” Diop told the AP. “I want to help a team win. Losing is not fun at all. I don’t care how much money you make. The style isn’t important.”

The story of Krstic’s season is quite different from role players like Armstrong and Diop, though. Not the same player since a nasty knee injury last season, the 24-year-old is running out of excuses and will find himself on another team next year if he doesn’t take whatever the Nets offer him.

Nachbar, however, despite being slowed somewhat by a nagging back injury, has been a solid offensive option off the bench when healthy. While Thorn preferred not to discuss the team’s ideology going into the offseason, he did share his thoughts on Nachbar’s perseverance this season.

“When you’re trying to assess players, the ones who care and the ones who give you all they have are valuable,” Thorn told the Star Ledger. “Certainly you take that into consideration. It says a lot about him that he’s still out there playing. Even though our chances don’t look very good right now, he’s still out there competing. But that’s the kind of guy Boki is.”

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