{"id":38971,"date":"2020-08-02T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-wizards-showdown-looking-like-play-in-preview\/"},"modified":"2020-08-02T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:24:00","slug":"nets-wizards-showdown-looking-like-play-in-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-wizards-showdown-looking-like-play-in-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets-Wizards \u2018showdown\u2019 looking like play-in preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nets-Wizards \u2018showdown\u2019 looking like play-in preview<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Could Sunday\u2019s game<\/a> be a preview of the NBA\u2019s first-ever \u201cPlay-In Series<\/a>\u201d when the Nets face the Wizards in Disney World?<\/p>\n

The way the makeshift Nets stunk up the Orlando bubble in their restart opener Friday, anything is possible now \u2014 even an 0-10 crash.<\/p>\n

The Nets, who fell behind by 30 points in the second half and lost to Orlando, 128-118, have their work cut out for them against the ninth-place Wizards.<\/p>\n

The Nets, after a garbage-time surge, fell to eighth place and lead Washington by 5\u00bd games. If the Wizards close within four games of the Nets after this eight-game regular season, the two teams will battle in a quasi best-of-3 series for the right to make the playoffs. The Nets, if they are still in eighth place, would have to win just one game to advance.<\/p>\n

The Wizards, who also lost their opener, to Phoenix, 125-112, would need to beat the Nets twice.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall the group realizes the importance of the game,\u2019\u2019 Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t change our app<\/a>roach. Hopefully we were as locked in as we need to be every single game.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Without any of their stars in Orlando (Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant, Spencer Dinwiddie, DeAndre Jordan), the Nets may be better served in tanking their way out the playoffs. If the Nets miss the 16-team tournament, the NBA ruled they would be in the lottery.<\/p>\n

And hence the Nets would regain their lottery-protected pick from Minnesota. If that happens, still a long shot, the Nets would give Minnesota their pick, in 2021 which likely will be late in the first round if the superstar tandem of KD\/Kyrie works as well as GM Sean Marks envisions it will.<\/p>\n

It is also unclear how badly the Wizards care about making the playoffs and falling out of the lottery draw, which will be held on Aug. 20. Washington is without backcourt stars Bradley Beal (shoulder) and John Wall, who missed the entire season.<\/p>\n

In addition, Wizards 3-point sharpshooter Davis Bertans decided to skip the restart so he can protect his health entering free agency \u2014 a real team player that one.<\/p>\n

Vaughn admits it\u2019s tough to judge Washington\u2019s team just as the Nets are impossible to scout with their expansion-like roster. (They may or may not get the infusion of Jamal Crawford making his Nets debut). On paper, the Nets and Wizards are by far the two least-talented teams in Disney. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou get the [Washington] analytics report and might as well tear it up,\u2019\u2019 said Vaughn, who didn\u2019t help his case to return next season.<\/p>\n

The Nets\u2019 defense was atrocious against the Magic, who shot 53 percent and scored 41 points in the third quarter. <\/p>\n

Vaughn also said he didn\u2019t like that the Nets allowed 13 points off the Magic\u2019s offensive rebounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we aren\u2019t as big as usual, the smalls have to come back and rebound,\u2019\u2019 Vaughn said. \u201cWhen that doesn\u2019t happen, we give up paint points. We have to be more pinpoint on the little things defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nets forward Timoth\u00e8 Luwawu-Cabarrot sparked an 18-0 run to close the game versus the Magic, heating up from 3 (5-of-8). But because their D was so poor in the first three quarters, it didn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommmunication is key and is part of our defense,\u2019\u2019 Luwawu-Caborrot said. \u201cWe\u2019re not good enough to be out there and not talk to each other. We need to be a team that\u2019s gritty and wants it all. We didn\u2019t do it [Friday].\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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