If the first month of the season had been played under normal circumstances, the injuries might be the biggest story in the Nets’ 6-8 start.
Instead, they have rightly taken a backseat to the circus surrounding Irving and Steve Nash being fired as head coach. Still, there is some responsibility to dole out there. “It just puts us straight on everyone else,” head coach Jacque Vaughn told reporters Sunday. “We put David Duke in, Patty [Mills] earlier, Markieff [Morris] earlier in our normal rotation. So, tried to really use our group to get us to the end of the game. It puts a strain on us when we are not completely whole, for sure.
Vaughn also changed Kevin Durant’s usual minutes allotment on Sunday, playing him at the start of the fourth quarter instead of sitting him until the six-minute mark, with the Nets on a run to end the third. “Going into the fourth, we knew we was going to have one more good push [in] us,” Vaughn said. “So if we had waited too long and brought him in at the six-minute mark, I think it might have been over already. We decided to run him and he ended up not playing the last four or five minutes of the game.” The Nets split two games against the Kings last season with the home team winning each one.
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