The Brooklyn Nets had their NBA opening game earlier this week suffering a bad loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, head coach Steve Nash and star forward Kevin Durant had some thoughts after the game.
According to Kristian Winfield of NY Daily News, Nash spoke on improvements that the team needs to make:
“They beat us in every category tonight,” said Nash. “It’s really about the competition level and raising it now that the season’s here, and that was a great kind of warning shot of what the standard is.”
Forward Durant reflected on the loss:
“[We’ve got to] box out, put a body on people, not let them get in our paint on defense,” Durant explained post-game. “You let a team get in your paint, you leave your guys on the perimeter, now they’re crashing for the glass, so we’ve got to keep the ball out the paint. [If] they’re shooting over us, then their team’s got no choice but to get back on defense instead of crashing, so we’ve just got to keep teams out of the paint.”
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