{"id":80994,"date":"2020-10-03T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spencer-dinwiddie-knows-nets-underdog-days-are-over\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T07:16:35","slug":"spencer-dinwiddie-knows-nets-underdog-days-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spencer-dinwiddie-knows-nets-underdog-days-are-over\/","title":{"rendered":"#Spencer Dinwiddie knows Nets’ underdog days are over"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Spencer Dinwiddie knows Nets’ underdog days are over<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n With the NBA Finals ongoing, the Nets, who are long since eliminated, know they haven\u2019t won a thing yet. But that\u2019s the goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s in the business of playing small, right? We understand the talent we have, we understand the expectations, we understand the championship-type of mentality,\u201d Nets point guard Spencer Dinwiddie said on House of Highlights\u2019 \u201cThrough the Wire\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also are realistic in the sense of, \u2018Hey, everything\u2019s a process, we don\u2019t go out and make guarantees.\u2019 But we want to put our best foot forward, and we believe in our talent and want to win. Obviously there\u2019s no other reason to do this, to play this game<\/a>, team up and all that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

That talent is about to get a boost, with Kevin Durant expected to debut after missing all of this season with a ruptured Achilles and Kyrie Irving saying he\u2019s fully fit after shoulder surgery ended his 2019-20 campaign with just 20 app<\/a>earances.<\/p>\n

Knocked out in the first round of the past two playoffs \u2014 last year by the 76ers and in August by the Raptors \u2014 the Nets are a long way from being champions. But they acknowledge having Durant and Irving will make them targets and raise the bar.<\/p>\n

Clearing that bar could require at least getting to where the Lakers and Heat are today, in the NBA Finals, or perhaps even winning the championship. And that\u2019s a big difference from the plucky Nets that Kenny Atkinson coached and with which Dinwiddie broke in.<\/p>\n

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Spencer Dinwiddie<\/span>NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cDefinitely, we understand there\u2019s a difference between being an underdog, and we have a little bit of a target,\u201d Dinwiddie said. \u201cWe can\u2019t fully say we\u2019re the champs or we have the team with the target or any of those things. But we do understand when KD and Kyrie are on the roster, immedia<\/a>tely expectations on you are raised. So you have to meet those and hopefully exceed them.\u201d<\/p>\n

With those raised expectations, the Nets have become a win-now team. They sacrificed young All-Star D\u2019Angelo Russell in July 2019 to create room for Durant and Irving. Dinwiddie personally helped recruit Irving and now finds himself constantly linked to trade rumors by fans on social media, despite averaging 20.6 points and a team-high 6.8 assists.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s part of the business of the NBA,\u201d Dinwiddie shrugged. \u201cTo feel forgotten about after averaging 20 points a game is an interesting experience. But it\u2019s a lot better than feeling forgotten about and averaging four points a game. So you just roll with it and just try to plug in the best you can on the team that you\u2019re on and figure it out day-by-day.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the case of plugging into a team with high-usage players like Durant, Irving and Caris LeVert, Dinwiddie likened his own game to an amoeba and implied he could adjust to fit with any high IQ teammates like these.<\/p>\n

Dinwiddie also addressed his clear love of tweaking Knicks fans on social media, saying he\u2019s not trolling so much as truth-telling.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, so it\u2019s not really shots. Like, I tell the truth: Y\u2019all just don\u2019t like truth and it turns into this whole big [thing]. Hey look, if y\u2019all are bums, y\u2019all are bums,\u201d Dinwiddie said jokingly, before shouting out former Nets teammate Theo Pinson, now on the other side of the East River with the rival Knicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cY\u2019all got my guy Theo Pinson. I know y\u2019all bench is going to be lively and dancing and stuff. It\u2019s gonna be phenomenal to see. Still going to get your heads cracked. It is what it is.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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