Tag: Noah Clowney

The Brooklyn Nets added themselves to the list of teams that will be rebuilding next season in the hopes of getting their next superstar or two in the NBA Draft. As is commonplace with rebuilding franchises, Brooklyn will be taking a long look at their young players, one of which may not be much of a secret anymore.

Grant Hughes of Bleacher Report recently wrote that the Nets’ best-kept secret is forward Noah Clowney, implying that he is set for a breakout season of sorts. While there is much unknown about this current roster outside of Cam Thomas, Nic Claxton, and the host of veterans still on the team, Clowney may not exactly surprise people next season.

Obviously, Nets fans know how well Clowney played towards the end of the 2023-24 season as he showcased all of the abilities that made him a promising prospect coming off of Alabama. Due to the fact that Brooklyn was still trying to be a playoff team last season, Clowney did spend most of his time in the G League, but once he got his chance to play more, he took the opportunity and ran with it.

Clowney ended last season with averages of 5.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 0.7 blocks per game while shooting 53.8% from the field and 36.4% from three-point range. However, in the Nets final 12 games of the season when the team was still in the play-in tournament hunt, but dealing with some injuries, Clowney put up 8.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per game on 52.7/39.3/62.5 shooting splits.

To be fair, it’s safe to say that the average NBA fan is not familiar with Clowney or with what he did when given playing time last season as he wasn’t on a Rookie of the Year pace. However, assuming that Clowney gets more consistent playing time, he will make his name known around the league and could even become a household name.

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NEW YORK — The Brooklyn Nets have not made many moves this summer as they didn’t select anyone in the 2024 NBA Draft or make any new additions in free-agency. However, they made two significant moves in trading Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks and re-signing center Nic Claxton, something that forward Noah Clowney is thrilled about.

“That’s great. That’s great. We want Clax back,” Clowney said on Monday during his session with the media following Brooklyn’s summer league practice. With the Nets heading into a full rebuild, the fans will be able to see a dynamic that was encouraging last season, that being Clowney at the power forward spot and Claxton anchoring the paint.

“I think us on the court together, we’ve shown that we can do a little bit and I think we can improve on that obviously,” Clowney said. “We can be really good together. I was excited to see him sign.”

Clowney was expected to spend most of the 2023-24 season in the G League being that he was still just 19 years old when the season began and could have used some development and playing reps. However, thanks to the Nets underperforming and needing a spark, Clowney got an opportunity to show what can he do, especially alongside Claxton as the two served as a formidable frontcourt duo.

If there was any game that showed what a pairing of Clowney and Claxton could look like in the future, the best example is a 106-102 win over the Toronto Raptors on April 10. The duo combined for 24 points, 18 rebounds, five assists, and 12 blocks.

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Brooklyn Nets rookie Noah Clowney came into the 2023-24 season with the expectation of spending most, if not all, of the season in the G League for a team expecting to make the playoffs. However, after the All-Star break, Brooklyn needed Clowney on the floor sooner than anybody anticipated given where the season was headed.

“I was tired, you get tired for sure,” Clowney said during the Nets’ “Year 1” series in which each rookie spoke on their experience after the conclusion of the season. Clowney had a unique rookie season as he went from a player that was considered a project following his rough showing in the Las Vegas Summer League to a player who was instrumental to Brooklyn’s late-season push for the play-in tournament.

“Just preparing yourself for it,” Clowney said when asked what it was like to go back-and-forth from Brooklyn to the Long Island Nets, Brooklyn’s G League affiliate, sometimes within the same day depending on injuries. “Knowing that you going have to do it even more the next time. Probably more after that.”

Clowney, 19, played in 23 games (4 starts) for Brooklyn this season and averaged 5.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 0.8 assists per game while shooting 53.8% from the field and 36.4% from three-point range. In 15 games (all starts) for Long Island, Clowney averaged 13.1 points, 8.5 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 56.3% from the floor and just 28.6% from deep.

While his stats don’t stand out compared to some of the rookies at the top of his class, Clowney made quite an impact for Brooklyn down the stretch of a season where the team was hanging on to their play-in tournament hopes by a thread. Beginning on Mar. 21, Clowney averaged 8.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 1.2 blocks per game and shot 52.7% from the field and 39.3% from behind the three-point line.

While Brooklyn saw Clowney as someone who could play some small-ball center minutes for the team when starting center Nic Claxton was resting, the franchise began to experiment with Clowney playing power forward alongside Claxton with some promising results.

In a 106-102 win over the Toronto Raptors on Apr. 10, Clowney and Claxton combined for 12 of Brooklyn’s 15 blocks, showing that both guys could play next to each other and still be solid on both ends of the floor.

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The Brooklyn Nets had a tough 2023-24 season as they finished the campaign with a 32-50 record despite a better-than-expected 13-10 start to the campaign thanks to some hot shooting. With the way that the season ended, it seems that everyone with the organization was affected, including one of the rookies despite a encouraging year.

The NBA released the complete voting results for the two 2023-24 All-Rookie teams and most of the voting went as expected with Rookie of the Year award winner Victor Wembanyama and second-place in the ROY race Chet Holmgren of the Oklahoma City Thunder being the leading vote-getters for First-Team All-Rookie.

However, it is important to note that Nets rookie Noah Clowney did not receive a single vote for either of the teams. Pointing this out is not to say that Clowney was snubbed from either of the teams, but more to point out how good Clowney was for Brooklyn towards the end of the season.

Clowney, 19, averaged just 5.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 0.8 assists per game while shooting 53.8% from the field and 36.4% from three-point range in 23 appearances (four starts). However, it is important to point out how Clowney played once he was done with his acclimation to the NBA during the first half of the season in the G League.

In April, Clowney averaged 12.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.9 blocks, and 1.3 assists per game while shooting 60.4% from the field and 47.1% from three-point land. To put those numbers in context, Clowney put up those numbers in just 29.3 minutes per game and the Nets went 3-4 in that stretch.

If those were Clowney’s numbers for this season, he would have been eighth amongst rookies in points per game, tied for fifth in rebounds per game, third in blocks per game, eighth in field-goal percentage, and fifth in three-point percentage.

It's not surprising that Nets rookie Noah Clowney did not receive a vote for either of the All-Rookie teams, but it should be noted that in April, Clowney averaged 12.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 60.4% from the field and 47.1% from 3. https://t.co/d4UEDXc4Sv

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The Brooklyn Nets have plenty of matters to address this offseason as they have to find a way to improve the team enough to get back to the playoffs next season. While Brooklyn has to consider all of the options that they have at their disposal, one of their players may not be considered to be anywhere, but with the team.

There is plenty of debate over which direction the Nets should go in this summer as the team seems to be in the middle. Despite that discussion that could go either way, most within the Nets fanbase seem to agree that forward Noah Clowney should be on the team no matter what.

It’s debatable whether Clowney should be the most untouchable player on the team, but what isn’t up for debate is the potential that he showed during his rookie season. Clowney, 19, ended the 2023-24 season averaging 5.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 0.7 blocks per game while shooting 53.8% from the field and 36.4% from three-point land.

When Clowney saw more playing time towards the end of the season, he showed everything that draft experts knew about him and then some. In the month of April, Clowney averaged 12.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 60.4% from the floor and 47.1% from deep in 29.3 minutes per contest.

Clowney’s best game of the season is arguably his performance against the Indiana Pacers on Apr. 3 in which he was a big reason that the Nets beat the Pacers 115-111. In just a little under 17 minutes in the contest, Clowney put up 22 points and 10 rebounds, including shooting 3-of-4 from behind the three-point line.

While some can argue that Clowney was playing at a point of the season where most teams are allowing young players to get playing time no matter what, his minutes were more than that. By the end of the season, it was clear that Clowney will be a valuable member of the team next season and will be just 20 years old heading into his second season in the NBA.

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The Brooklyn Nets are heading into an important offseason for their franchise following the end of a disappointing season that saw the team miss the postseason completely. As they move forward with the rest of their summer, Brooklyn can feel good knowing that one of their players is being called a special name at this point in time.

In a recent episode of the HoopsHype podcast, Michael Scotto of HoopsHype and Brian Lewis discussed various topics related to the Nets’ offseason and one of those topics was rookie Noah Clowney. Scotto mentioned during the conversation that “he’s been called the golden child I’ve heard from a few people.”

Clowney, 19, did not have a prolific rookie season when you compare his numbers to some of the rookies that are up for the Rookie of the Year award. However, that doesn’t mean that Clowney did not have some special moments over the course of this season as he made plenty of things happen towards the end of this year.

Clowney ended his rookie year averaging 5.8 points and 3.5 rebounds while shooting 53.8% from the field and 36.4% from three-point range in just 23 games played. However, in the month of April, Clowney averaged 12.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks per game while shooting 60.4% from the floor and 47.1% from deep in 29.3 minutes per contest.

Clowney being called the golden child is high praise given that he did not play much this season, but the name reflects how he has performed in some of his biggest games this season. Clowney has proved that he can play at the NBA level and next season should be a showcase of that ability for him over the course of the entire season.

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