The Nets’ defense had no answers for Jalen Brunson or the Knicks in their 142-118 on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.
To start his pregame press conference, Jacque Vaughn touched on the need to defend Jalen Brunson, the Knicks’ star guard who torched the Nets for 40 points when the teams met Feb. 13.
But any defensive adjustments ahead of time or during the game — which, Spencer Dinwiddie told The Post, included drop coverage and eventually blitzing — failed,The Nets have been searching for a defensive identity since acquiring what, on paper, appeared to be a strong return for that area at the trade deadline, but in their“To give up 142 points to your crosstown team, that hurts,” Vaughn said, “and it should hurt.
The Knicks scored 47 points in the first quarter, 81 by halftime and connected on 14 3-pointers in the first half. Dinwiddie told The Post that it’s difficult to respond when teams hit 3s at that clip. Even as the Nets experiment with different defenses and try to find what works best, both Dinwiddie and Mikal Bridges referenced a need to figure out which one they’re going to focus on moving forward.“Just still trying to figure out our defense and what we’re doing,” Bridges said, “so it’s tough, but we just weren’t getting stops out there.”
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