{"id":49390,"date":"2020-08-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-hoping-to-improve-ball-movement-in-game-2-vs-raptors\/"},"modified":"2020-08-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:00:00","slug":"nets-hoping-to-improve-ball-movement-in-game-2-vs-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-hoping-to-improve-ball-movement-in-game-2-vs-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets hoping to improve ball movement in Game 2 vs. Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nets hoping to improve ball movement in Game<\/a> 2 vs. Raptors<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 18, 2020 |<\/span> 8:00pm <\/p>\n

\n As great Brooklynite Mike Tyson once said, \u201cEverybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.\u201d The Nets are hoping the way they got blitzed in Monday\u2019s playoff opener was just early shell shock and not a series<\/a>-long mismatch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took us a bit to adjust to the game speed. We were kind of thrown back. It\u2019s the playoffs, a younger team, it just hit us a little differently about how hard we had to play,\u201d Jarrett Allen said. \u201cComing in against the defending champs, we needed to expect them to come at us, come ready to play. It was a little adjustment period for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

That took a quarter-and-a-half, with the Nets digging a 33-point hole against the Raptors before rallying to cut it to eight. It was nowhere near enough to win Game 1, but they hope it can help them for Wednesday\u2019s Game 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t like our shot selection in the first quarter. We felt like we were just taking the first shot where we could see the rim and not making them play defense at all; and we saw how that worked out for us,\u201d Caris LeVert said. \u201cThe rest of the games when we come in we know the mentality we have to play with on offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tyler Johnson looks to drive to the basket during the Nets\u2019 Game 1 loss to the Raptors on Monday.<\/span>NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Nets have preached a good-to-great mantra, passing up acceptable shots in pursuit of excellent ones. But they were quietly worried they might never get great shots against Toronto\u2019s elite switching defense, and were too quickly harassed out of their usual ball movement and into taking the first harried looks they got.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey started out with a lot of energy, and we were a little flat. We were letting the ball stick, and that\u2019s not how we\u2019ve been playing throughout this entire bubble,\u201d Tyler Johnson said. \u201cObviously, that\u2019s not the start you want to get off to, but we definitely found some things we can exploit going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson had averaged 16.3 points on 52.4 percent shooting from deep in the last four regular-season games, a plus-5.8. But he mustered just seven on 1 of 6 from behind the arc, his minus-29 the worst of any player in Monday\u2019s quartet of games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe film and the reality met each other head-to-head. Our guys were able to feel the speed and the athleticism \u2026 so we\u2019re going to have to be smart in the way we attack them,\u201d interim coach Jacque Vaughn said. \u201cBut guys were able to recognize we can get good looks, we just have to make them pay for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nets didn\u2019t make the Raptors pay enough Monday, getting 33 assists but falling short of their 59 projected dimes. With LeVert expected to see more doubles and traps, Johnson and Garrett Temple can\u2019t go 2 of 16 from deep again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t take as many shots or we weren\u2019t as confident in taking the shots when we had them, and they had us on our heels,\u201d Temple said. \u201cObviously it\u2019s different once you\u2019re in it. So it was as advertised early on. But once we realized the fight we had to play with, we were able to attack them a little better late in the second quarter and that whole third quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nets were hardly patient, the only team in Monday\u2019s openers to average under three seconds with each touch on the ball (2.75). Their 2.14 dribbles per touch was second-lowest. A better defensive effort Wednesday would help them get out in transition and take pressure off their offense.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re able to get stops \u2014 get out in transition, kick the ball ahead \u2014 everybody was getting a touch,\u201d Joe Harris said. \u201cThen in the half court, the ball moved a lot better than it did in the first half, where we might\u2019ve been settling for that first open jumper instead of working the ball around, making the defense work.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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