With just under 38% success behind the arc, the Nets were the 5th most skilled team in the league last season. But New Yorkers are likely to fall heavily in this ranking.
Beyond the departures of gunners Kevin Durant (37.6%) and Kyrie Irving (37.4%) during the season, the Brooklyn-based franchise lost big this summer: Patty Mills (36.6%) left for the Hawks, Seth Curry (40.5 %) in Dallas, Joe Harris (42.6%) at the Pistons or even Yuta Watanabe (44.4%) with “KD” in Phoenix.
These were the “ specialists we had to shoot 3-pointers “, recognizes Jacque Vaughnaware that his team will “ having to find other ways to score “. Cam Johnson, Spencer Dinwiddie and of course Mikal Bridges will have their say in this register.
“ We will have to be more meticulous and very attentive to our ‘spacing’. We must be extremely precise in giving players the opportunity to dribble. So we would have to go in a certain direction, whereas we were going in the other before. We must therefore be very precise offensively », insists the New York technician.
The latter hopes to take advantage of Ben Simmons’ penetrating qualities to generate spaces and open shots for the attackers and the handful of remaining shooters (Lonnie Walker IV, Dorian Finney-Smith, Royce O’Neale, etc.). The coach even assures that the Australian can and will play alongside Nic Claxton, while the two men represent no threat on the outside.
This is one of the reasons why Jacque Vaughn preferred to do without the former 76ers in his five last season. But the Nets must also fill gaps in another register, that of rebounds. Before 40 catches per game last season, Brooklyn was the 3rd worst student in the league.
“ We may not be the best team in the league in terms of defensive or offensive rebounding, but the idea is clearly to be better than we were “, says GM Sean Marks, whose coach plans to rely more on young Day’Ron Sharpe, who could also try his luck behind the arc (6/11 last year).
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
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| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Kevin Durant | 39 | 36.0 | 55.9 | 37.6 | 93.4 | 0.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.3 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 29.7 |
| Kyrie Irving | 40 | 36.9 | 48.6 | 37.4 | 88.3 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 27.1 |
| Mikal Bridges | 27 | 34.2 | 47.5 | 37.6 | 89.4 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 26.1 |
| Cameron Johnson | 25 | 30.8 | 46.8 | 37.2 | 85.1 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 16.6 |
| Spencer Dinwiddie | 26 | 35.3 | 40.4 | 28.9 | 79.7 | 0.3 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 9.1 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 16.5 |
| Raiquan Gray | 1 | 35.1 | 50.0 | 40.0 | 100.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 16.0 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 76 | 29.9 | 70.5 | 0.0 | 54.1 | 2.4 | 6.8 | 9.2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 12.6 |
| Cam Thomas | 57 | 16.6 | 44.1 | 38.3 | 86.8 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 10.6 |
| Tj Warren | 26 | 18.9 | 51.0 | 33.3 | 81.8 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 9.5 |
| Seth Curry | 61 | 19.9 | 46.3 | 40.5 | 92.7 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 9.2 |
| Royce O’Neale | 76 | 31.7 | 38.6 | 38.9 | 72.5 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 8.8 |
| Joe Harris | 74 | 20.6 | 45.7 | 42.6 | 64.3 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 7.6 |
| Dorian Finney Smith | 26 | 27.7 | 35.1 | 30.6 | 78.9 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 7.2 |
| Edmund Sumner | 53 | 13.9 | 46.1 | 35.6 | 91.7 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 7.1 |
| Ben Simmons | 42 | 26.3 | 56.6 | 0.0 | 43.9 | 1.0 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 6.9 |
| Patty Mills | 40 | 14.2 | 41.1 | 36.6 | 83.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 6.2 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 58 | 16.0 | 49.1 | 44.4 | 72.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 5.6 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 48 | 11.5 | 54.4 | 54.5 | 63.6 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 4.7 |
| David Duke | 23 | 9.9 | 46.2 | 8.3 | 70.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 3.7 |
| Markieff Morris | 27 | 10.6 | 40.2 | 40.8 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 |
| Dru Smith | 10 | 9.1 | 41.9 | 30.8 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 3.3 |
| Kessler Edwards | 14 | 5.7 | 25.0 | 16.7 | 50.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Nerlens Noel | 3 | 14.4 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 1.0 |
| Moses Brown | 2 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Alondes Williams | 1 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
