After the Nets dealt away four-time scoring champ Kevin Durant, they were supposed to rely on their defense. But so far, it’s been a sieve, not a strength.
a couple of blowouts“Our guys are getting used to [how we play]. … There’s a defensive terminology also,” coach Jacque Vaughn said. “When you’ve been raised in a system like the two kids from Phoenix, they’ve been raised in that system, that’s all they know. So the terminology is different; my communication is different with them. What we’re trying to accomplish is different. It just doesn’t happen in five games like that.
The “two kids from Phoenix” — Cam Johnson and Defensive Player of the Year runner-up Mikal Bridges — are admittedly going to have more kinks.Both will shoulder more offensive burden than they did with the Suns, but Johnson knows the adjustment will still be far tougher on the other end. “Once we iron out those instances where we’re reacting a quarter second late, our defense will be a lot sharper once that becomes instinct. There’s a couple rotations that I know personally over the past five games that I’ve missed because I’m caught in a middle ground where my mind is reverting back to old habits. But it’s getting better; as long as we continue to clean it up when we’re the aggressors on the defensive end it covers for a lot of that indecisiveness. It’s a work in progress.
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