PHILADELPHIA — Brooklyn Nets guard Seth Curry has had a stable role for the Nets as a scorer/shooter off the bench depending on what the team needs at any given time. On Saturday, the former Philadelphia 76er was needed to score and while he fulfilled that part of his job, he made sure to point out where Philadelphia blew the game open.
“Like an offensive rebound,” Curry said when asked what he thought was the biggest difference-maker for the 76ers in Saturday’s 121-101 Game 1 loss at Philadelphia. Curry scored 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting from the field (including 2-of-3 shooting from three-point land) in 16 minutes. Brooklyn allowed Philadelphia to get 14 offensive rebounds that led to the 76ers getting 19 more shots than Brooklyn.
“Throughout the majority of the game, we got some some misses. But, they (the 76ers) got two, three opportunities on some possessions and then, they adjusted to our defense throughout the game,” Curry continued. The 76ers had 21 second-chance points which came as a result of the offensive rebounding. The pressure that Philadelphia was putting on the glass eventually wore Brooklyn down to the point that the 76ers were able to crash the offensive board and get extra possessions at will.
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