For the second straight season, the Nets have been swept out of the playoffs, with the final loss on their home floor. But this one felt different.
Shot creation and rebounding.
“So, 40 points, we gave ourselves a chance. Now we couldn’t [shoot] the basketball, that’s the other side of it,” coach Jacque Vaughn said. “And then the piece of it that keeps staring us in the face, we got to grab on to it. “For our group going forward, the ability for multiple people to get downhill and get to the paint and create opportunities, that’s a need for us, yes,” Vaughn said.
Dorian Finney-Smith, who was picked up in the Kyrie Irving trade, may be a key cog for the Nets — if he stays with them.Right after the Durant and Irving trades in February that brought back Bridges, Dinwiddie, Cam Johnson and Dorian Finney-Smith, vultures were circling looking for bargains. Nets general manager Sean Marks rejected offers of four first-round picks for Bridges, two for Finney-Smith and calls for Dinwiddie as well.
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