The trio of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and new coach Jacque Vaughn are turning around the Nets' season, JeffZillgitt writes.
Pieces are starting to fit. Irving, Durant, Joe Harris, Royce O’Neale and Nic Claxton form the starting lineup with Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Cam Thomas, T.J. Warren and Yuta Watanabe providing bench production. At the start of the season, Simmons, Curry, Harris and Warren weren't ready to contribute valuable minutes.
Since the team started returning players to the rotation and during this six-week turnaround, the Nets are shooting 50.6% from the field and 38.3 on 3-pointers, good for second- and seventh-best. “We continue to keep trusting each other on the offensive end,” Durant said. “We take efficient shots. We’re an efficient ballclub on the offensive side of the ball, too, so that helps our defense. We try to hang our out hat on keeping our man in front of us and guarding one-on-one and provide help when needed. That’s sustainable in any form of basketball.”
Can the Nets keep this going? The East is tough, and while they have the sixth-easiest remaining schedule according to tankathon.com, it’s still not a cakewalk with three games remaining against each of Milwaukee, Boston and Cleveland, the three teams in front of them in the standings.
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