By losing to Indiana tonight, the Nets (9 wins – 11 losses) missed the opportunity to rebalance their record for the first time in a month. In this match, if Nic Claxton finished top rebounder with 11 catches, his team again lost the rebound battle (41-38).
It was certainly in a much less alarming proportion than two days earlier, in Toronto, where the Raptors had captured 13 more rebounds (52-39). And above all recorded an impressive total of 23 offensive rebounds.
But this issue of the rebound is central to the start of the season for Brookyln. With just under 41 strikes per game on 100 possessions, it is the 6th worst team in the league in this area. But in other statistical categories such as ” rebound percentage “, to assess the effectiveness of a team to capture rebounds, the Nets are dead last.
“ We keep coming back to it. We even got three video clips today (in training)just to show the different aspects that come into play », portrayed Jacque Vaughn before this game against the Pacers.
The manager notes that Nic Claxton and Ben Simmons, the two tallest players on the team alongside Kevin Durant and Day’Ron Sharpe, are able to defend at full backs after the defensive changes on screens. Result: they are more often far from the circle, and therefore in a less good position to play the rebound. A strength that almost becomes a weakness in short.
” This is one of the explanations. And then there are the smaller players. Rather than saying ‘I’m going to attack’, which is nice to do, you have to say ‘I’m going to come back to help’ “claimed the coach, targeting Kyrie Irving, Joe Harris and the others.
He and his team can be all the more frustrated by these lost battles on the rebound as Brooklyn holds his opponent to only 44% success each evening. No defense in the league does better…
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kevin Durant | 19 | 36.5 | 53.4 | 33.3 | 91.9 | 0.3 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 5.3 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 28.8 |
| Kyrie Irving | 11 | 35.8 | 47.7 | 31.3 | 93.5 | 0.5 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 25.5 |
| Nicholas Claxton | 18 | 26.6 | 72.7 | 0.0 | 40.9 | 2.6 | 5.7 | 8.3 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 11.7 |
| Royce O’Neale | 19 | 35.2 | 40.6 | 44.0 | 71.4 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 10.3 |
| Seth Curry | 9 | 21.9 | 41.1 | 34.1 | 88.9 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 9.1 |
| Ben Simmons | 14 | 28.4 | 60.9 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1.0 | 5.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 3.9 | 8.6 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 14 | 18.2 | 60.9 | 57.1 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 8.1 |
| Edmond Sumner | 16 | 16.2 | 44.2 | 27.8 | 93.9 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 7.8 |
| Joe Harris | 17 | 25.7 | 37.5 | 34.4 | 55.6 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 7.8 |
| cam thomas | 14 | 16.2 | 38.3 | 33.3 | 78.6 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 7.2 |
| Patty Mills | 19 | 11.3 | 41.4 | 37.0 | 100.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.6 |
| Markieff Morris | 11 | 10.6 | 41.9 | 47.8 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 3.4 |
| David Duke | 12 | 8.3 | 45.7 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 2.9 |
| Day’ron Sharpe | 14 | 7.9 | 46.7 | 66.7 | 66.7 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 2.7 |
| Kessler Edwards | 10 | 3.7 | 27.3 | 28.6 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 |
