For the Nets, this isn’t the time for pity. It’s time for planning and plotting. They’re about to take the first big step of their rebuild. They can’t afford to trip.

With the Nets’ tough lottery luck — they landed the No. 8 overall pick after having the sixth-best odds — they lost any shot at getting Duke phenom Cooper Flagg.

Almost immediately, chatter started emerging from the NBA Draft Combine that the Nets were looking to move up in the draft.

But move up from where to where? To No. 6? No. 3? All the way up to No. 2 with the chance to select Dylan Harper?