The Brooklyn Nets had to wait an extra year to get their hands on sharpshooting swingman Allen Crabbe, getting him one season after general manager Sean Marks and the front office offered him a four-year, $75 million deal in restricted free agency.

Instead, the Nets were able to garner his services after trading Andrew Nicholson for him earlier this offseason, shaving $18.5 million off his contract for waiting an extra year.

Now the Cal product looks for an even bigger role after being the second-most efficient three-point shooter in the NBA last season, nailing 44.4 percent of his attempts. Crabbe will likely start at small forward this upcoming season and one that will demand a vast improvement in the offseason to be able to handle the workload.

“Mainly it's just getting my body stronger, putting on weight,” Crabbe told Cory Wright of Nets.com. “Trying to sharpen up on my handling and all that stuff because it's definitely going to be a bigger role for me over here in Brooklyn. I'm going to be able to show a lot more and display a lot of my skill set with my team.”

The 25-year-old has built a reputation as one of the best young, deep threats in the league, but will need to show an all-around package if he hopes to take the Nets out of the cellar of the Eastern Conference — a task he's been waiting to take on.

“It's nerve-wracking coming from a team that you've been with for four years and all of the relationships you've built over there and all of the sudden you have to up and leave it and start new ones over here,” Crabbe said. “It's been cool so far, guys have been cool to work with and be around. It can only get better from here.”

Crabbe is expected to get minutes in the mid-30s, a huge jump from his mid-20s average with the Blazers, but one that can catapult him to stardom if he proves to have the assets this organization saw in him since last summer.