The Brooklyn Nets have shot worse than 30% from 3-point territory in four of their last five games — the win over the Philadelphia 76ers was the lone outlier (37.5%).
Although Joe Harris (5-for-9) and David Nwaba (2-for-3) made the most of their long-range looks, Spencer Dinwiddie (1-for-8), Garrett Temple (1-for-6) and Taurean Prince (1-for-6) never found their flow.
Dinwiddie was able to make up for his inefficient 3-point shooting. He shot 55.6% from two.
But Temple only went 1-for-8 from two and Prince missed all three of his attempts inside the arc. And Temple has struggled from three in two of Brooklyn’s last three games. Prince, however, went 4-for-9 just two games ago (vs. the Toronto Raptors) — on the same night Harris went 1-for-6 from three.
Plus, Kenny Atkinson and company gave Prince a far more important task on Tuesday. Lockdown Brandon Ingram:
We had him denying Brandon the whole game. We said, ‘Don’t let him touch it.’ And that takes a lot of energy. I think he was focusing on the defensive end.
Ingram went 5-for-7 from three and scored 22, but he went 2-for-16 inside the arc throughout New Orleans’ 108-101 loss to the Nets.
On the whole, Atkinson told reporters in New Orleans he isn’t worried about Brooklyn’s up-and-down shooting of late. Though, he would like to work tinker with a few things before facing the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday:
No, I think it’ll come back. I don’t in the first three quarters we got great shots, honestly. I’d love to take [Wednesday] and work on our offense a little and just go through our plays again and our system. I feel like there’s some slippage there. Hopefully we can get some time [Wednesday] and work on it.
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