After back-to-back middling performances in Games 1 and a couple of of Brooklyn’s first-round playoff sequence towards the Philadelphia 76ers, each losses, start line guard Spencer Dinwiddie hit the movie room.
His revelation?
His pictures are coming manner too late within the shot clock.
Dinwiddie has struggled to generate buckets for a Nets workforce that desperately wants them. He has scored 26 factors mixed by Brooklyn’s two opening first-round video games, however he’s taken 26 pictures to get them. He shot one-of-five from downtown within the 96-84 Game 2 loss in Philly and is simply two-of-eight from three-point vary within the sequence.
That’s a 25% clip for Dinwiddie, who shot over 40% from three in a 76-game stint with the Dallas Mavericks however completed the common season capturing simply 29% from deep after the midseason commerce again to the Nets.
Dinwiddie stated he must each take higher pictures and convert on the tough ones, too, as a result of clear seems might be scarce in a playoff sequence towards a championship contender.
“Most of the ones I’ve taken have been like late clock, sub-five seconds on the shot clock,” he stated after apply on the HSS Training Facility Wednesday afternoon. “So clearly any of these are gonna be more durable pictures and it’s on me to transform a few of these and be capable of save a few of these performs.
“Shot quality for myself is a little bit poor just from the standpoint of half of them are like five seconds or less on the shot clock,” he continued. “Nobody in the league is pretty proficient at that.”
Dinwiddie stated he’s attempting to stroll the superb line between play-making for his teammates and creating pictures for himself. He tip-toed that line to a tee to finish the common season, averaging 16 factors and 10 assists per sport from March 1 by the April 9 season finale.
It turned clear in Game 2, nonetheless, as open Nets shooters didn’t knock down pictures that Brooklyn wants Dinwiddie to be extra aggressive looking for his personal shot. Players not named Cam Johnson, who shot 5-of-11 from downtown in Game 2, shot solely 8-of-31 from three-point vary.
“This team needs me to get in the paint and typically make plays passing-wise,” he stated. “I think we’ve been at our best this season when I’ve been able to do that.”
The Nets, nonetheless, know their finest offense is in transition — an space they haven’t fairly been capable of capitalize due to their incapacity to finish a defensive possession with a rebound. The Sixers outrebounded the Nets, 56-33, in Game 2. They have secured 27 offensive rebounds this sequence in comparison with Brooklyn’s 9, and are wiping the ground with the Nets in second-chance factors.
Philly has gained in that division by a whopping 39-3 margin, together with a complete shutout, 18-0, in Game 2.
“I think the biggest part of that is you’ve got to come back, get the rebound, and then if multiple people get the rebound, then all those dudes can push it,” Jacque Vaughn stated on Wednesday. “But we haven’t been getting the rebound, so the pace has been slow. You’re playing against a set defense. That’s the difference.”
Rebounding was a degree of emphasis for the Nets’ movie examine session on Wednesday. Brooklyn held MVP frontrunner Joel Embiid to only 20 factors on 6-of-11 capturing in Game 2, however he dominated on the glass with 19 rebounds. Tobias Harris added 12 extra, and P.J. Tucker tallied eight, plus backup middle Paul Reed grabbed three offensive rebounds off the bench in solely 11 minutes.
“We’ve talked about it. We addressed it today. We named it, we put it in perspective. We reality-checked it. All of the above to understand that everyone has to come back and hit every single time,” Vaughn stated.
If the Nets can discover a solution to safe rebounds, it should permit Dinwiddie to get out in transition, the place he finds a lot of his offense as one of many league’s higher guards getting downhill to the rim.
“You wanna attack early in transition. The best quality shots typically are early in the shot clock, just by the numbers and the points per possession. They tell us all the time,” he stated. “Kicking it ahead a lot obviously, and then when it does come back, we just have to have better elephant recognition and get into our plays a little bit quicker. That’s one of the things that in this series so far we haven’t done great at, and that we kinda drilled in the practice today.”
Vaughn, nonetheless, identified the Nets weren’t a very good workforce in transition through the common season, both.
“I just think you have to look at the profile of our team,” he stated. “We were 22nd in transition, so it’s not like we played at an incredible pace throughout the course of the year. It’s not like we were a team that attacked the rim at a high quality and high clip throughout the course of the year, and especially in the playoffs, that slows down. It’s not like we’re gonna be able to flip a switch and that’s gonna change.”
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