There have been a considerable number of players logging meaningful minutes for the Brooklyn Nets this season.<\/p>\n
The Nets have dealt with key injuries to guys like Michael Porter Jr., Egor D\u00ebmin, and Day’Ron Sharpe, making them dig deeper into their rotation while clearing way for young players on two-way and short term deals.<\/p>\n
Though at full strength Brooklyn proved it can potentially compete for a play-in spot and win games against some of the best teams in the league, a clean bill of health wasn’t a luxury always afforded to by the Nets.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t always easy, honestly, with the lineup changes, with playing with a lot of younger guys at this stage of my career,\u201d Nic Claxton said. \u201cThis year was rough, obviously. So we\u2019ve got a few more games this year, we flush that out, we get back to the drawing board this summer and we go from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t let it affect your preparation and your mindset. Even this year I struggled with that some. Going into games you have to go in with the mindset, \u2018OK, we\u2019re going to win this game.\u2019 But as far as wins and losses, I get what [coach] Jordi [Fern\u00e1ndez] is saying. It doesn\u2019t always come with the scoreboard. It can be seeing our rookies go out and spread their wings and gain confidence. It can be me maturing and finding that peace within myself no matter what\u2019s going on out there on the court. Then next year hopefully we get some more actual wins.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rebounding numbers also haven’t always looked good in Brooklyn, as the Nets’ bigs are sometimes stationed at the level in Fern\u00e1ndez’s switch heavy defensive schemes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you\u2019ve got some rebound-hungry dudes on the team that can make your numbers dip because when I average more rebounds, my teammates would pretty much let me get the rebounds,” Claxton said.<\/p>\n
“It is just a mentality thing of going after all of the rebounds. Sometimes the rebound numbers can be skewed because my teammate can be right there to get the rebound and we secure the rebound, but if I don\u2019t go after it, I finish the game with a lower number of rebounds, but my teammate grabbed the board. But it is a numbers game at the end of the day with the NBA, so it\u2019s something you always want to just put some focus and energy towards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been a considerable number of players logging meaningful minutes for the Brooklyn Nets this season. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,671],"class_list":{"0":"post-708510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116388587147954137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}