NEW YORK — Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie has been one of the players on the team whose role has constantly changed throughout the course of this season. While Dinwiddie has been playing mostly as an off-ball role in the backcourt, there are plenty of times that his role shifts within a game depending on how head coach Jacque Vaughn wants to play.
“Yeah, it’s interesting. We had a little combination at the end,” Vaughn said after Sunday’s 102-94 win over the Washington Wizards. Dinwiddie usually takes over as the starting point guard whenever Ben Simmons hasn’t played this season and Sunday was more of the same. He had 12 points, four rebounds, and three assists in 31 minutes of a game that was ugly for both teams.
“It’s a luxury for me to have Spencer on the floor,” Vaughn explained. “He can handle the basketball, even at the end of the game, to make free throws at the end of the game. In an ideal world, he’s doing both. I think he has the ability to do both.”
Including Sunday, Simmons has missed the past three games with an injured left hip. For right now, he is considered to be ‘day-to-day’ so Dinwiddie may have to be the guard who fulfills both roles for the time being and may have to get used to it.
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