“I was dealing with it probably a month before the trade. It’s been a while. It’s something I’m just going to have to manage and deal with until the offseason,” he said. “It’s not something that’s going to go away. So as long as it’s not getting worse, I should be good.”
There’s more from Brooklyn:
- The Nets were able to keep Bruce Brown on a $4.7MM qualifying offer last offseason, but his price may be a lot higher this summer, Lewis suggests in a separate story. Brown has upped his game since the Harden trade, and while some of the improvement has come from more minutes and a revamped role, part of it is related to attitude. “Early in the season, it was all mental for me,” Brown said. “I was trying to fit in the role that I had last year, and it wasn’t working. So I got kind of frustrated, and that’s when I kind of got out of the rotation. Then I went to ‘Smoke’ [assistant coach Royal Ivey], and I was like, ‘Bruh, I want to get better.’ So we got to work on something different. I started working on a little bit of guard stuff, just getting back to my game, the way I played my whole life, and it started to work.”
- Andre Drummond, another addition in the Sixers trade, has found the game comes a lot easier playing alongside Durant and Irving, Lewis states in the same piece. Drummond is putting up his best numbers of the season, averaging 14.3 points and 10.5 rebounds in his last six games. “For me, it’s a lot of fun for two reasons: One, I’m playing with two of the best players in the world,” he said, “and secondly, when they do miss, there’s nobody down there because everybody’s so worried about contesting their shots. So when they do miss, it’s a walk in the park for me to go get the rebounds.”
- Kessler Edwards is hoping to bounce back after hitting the “rookie wall” at midseason, Lewis adds. Edwards fell out of the rotation following 18 straight starts in January and February, but he scored 26 total points in back-to-back games this week.
Drummond is putting up his best numbers of the season because he’s the starting center and playing significantly more minutes than he did in Philly. That’s not really noteworthy.
Sure it is. He’s starting and putting up good numbers. Always need that from your starters. Name me another Net center who was doing that ……….
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Nets still have a shot to catch Cavs for 6th seed. But I don’t think it matters. Cause they are not losing the play in gm. So then it’s either the #1 or #2 seed. Which could be Heat, Bucks, Sixers. Imo they don’t fear any of them. And are capable of beating any of them. I just pray it’s the Sixers ……..
You gotta love a guy like Drummond… it just wasn’t right he was in the bench, he is a legit starter & more in the league!