NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Nets are trying to turn their season around so that they can play their way into the Eastern Conference playoff race before it’s too late. Brooklyn forward Dorian Finney-Smith is a big reason why the Nets have won four of their past six games.
“Yeah, coach been asking us to move the ball side to side,” Finney-Smith said after Tuesday’s 112-107 win over the Philadelphia 76ers about what interim head coach Kevin Ollie has been wanting from his players. While Brooklyn did not exactly light the game on fire with their shooting, they did pick up 25 assists on 41 made field-goals. Finney-Smith himself scored 20 points in one of his best games this season.
“I was able to get some easy looks, guys were finding me cutting and stuff like that,” Finney-Smith said. “Coach been asking me to cut a lot more with the new sets that he’s been putting in. It was a great overall game, though. I feel like we responded on the backboard.”
The Nets have been one of the teams in the NBA that seems to look different on a nightly basis in terms of his offensive efficiency because of how much the offense is dependent on three-point shooting. Against Philadelphia, Brooklyn had a good balance of production from the three-point line combined with attacking the rim as they also put up 58 points in the paint.
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