It’s only been one game, but the Brooklyn Nets may have found a solution to the recent problem they encountered. As much as Spencer Dinwiddie could score from anywhere on the floor, he had clearly changed his focus and altered his game coming into the season to serve as the ideal complement to Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. So, losing him to ACL surgery was a significant blow.
While Bruce Brown can’t score like Dinwiddie, he’s capable of doing some of the same things — and is a stronger defender, too.
“I definitely look forward to those matchups,” Brown said on a Zoom call with reporters after covering Donovan Mitchell on Tuesday. “That’s what I’m here for. So, I’ll leave the scoring to Kyrie and everybody else who scores the ball. I’m here to play defense, to make the hustle plays. I’m kind of pissed I didn’t have a steal today. I think I need to start, I need to get more steals to help us out on the defensive end.
“But Ky, man, I just push the ball and try to find him. Give him the ball. He [is] gonna score, man, any way possible. So just try to get him the ball. He was hot. Yeah, that’s really it.”
It’s just one night, but there’s no question Steve Nash needs to give Brown a chance to prove he can replicate what he did against the Jazz on a consistent basis.
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