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I was at Barclays last night and I won this little notebook... for free!

Claxton and Clowney have become role players. I think Claxton is better at his role than Clowney is. But despite his improvements this year, Nic has never ventured to change his fundamental role. Sharpe, on the other hand, seems hungry this year. He's eager to become something other than he's been.

Or forget numbers and just watch the games. DayRon has become a lot more confident in every aspect of the game. His style has changed. More hook shots. More passing from the top of the key. Better court vision. Many more steals because he's always looking to strip the ball whenever he gets near it.

So true. Claxton has gotten a lot better this year. But so has DayRon. Look at Claxton's numbers and Sharpe's side by side (adjusted per possession or per minutes). DayRon actually looks a little better.

No!

He has checked out. He has spiralled into a depression. Which is one thing. But it's starting to affect his teammates and his coach.

I was at Barclays last night. And that ending was about as heartbreaking as I've experienced. #NetsWorld

Yes, it's been an emotional drift, which will continue for a couple more weeks of holiday travel with family members who are--shockingly!--not Nets fans.

Thinking of a box score as a 10-5-3 game, just as thinking of it as a 5-5-5 game, might be revealing. #NBA #NetsWorld
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The Triple Nickel might be more revealing than the Triple Double. #NBA #NetsWorld
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I've never liked him, either. He's an inefficient shooter on a bad contract.

Hey, thanks, Doug. That 2018-19 year with Atkinson & LeVert, Allen, Dinwiddie, Harris, and Russell was my favorite year as a Brooklyn Nets fan. I'm starting to feel a bit the same way for this new squad. It's good to be rooting for a bunch of young guys who are building a narrative.

Thanks!

Yeah, Colin: you and I were thinking along the same lines that Jordi should use Wolf like he's using Claxton. He's a much more talented passer. The results could be electric in the long run. His game style could end up being very much like Jokic's.

Danny Wolf is a beautiful--but perhaps inefficient--passer. #NetsWorld #NBA
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Claxton has Become an Assists-Machine, not a Passing-Machine I wrote the other day that Claxton was getting a lot more assists this year partly because he was better at seeing passing lanes. I knew at the time that this was only partly true; in fact, in a lo…

Claxton has become an assists-machine, not a passing-machine, because Jordi Fernandez has designed the offense along a Galactic Center Model. #NBA #NetsWorld

Quarterly Report: We’re Getting Better The season is now about ¼ done. The Nets started the season off terribly, but we keep getting better. I was at Barclays last night for our win and both the team and the fans were starting to feel l…

Quarterly Report: We're Getting Better #NBA #NetsWorld

It's a good question. NBA.com has stats that track how near/far the closest defender is for each shot. Presumably, they get this stuff from Synergy Sports. One could check it out. But I've been skeptical in the past about the usefulness/validity of Synergy's numbers.
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Terance Mann is an intriguing High Efficiency but Low Frequency Shooter. #NBA #NetsWorld
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Claxton Has Become a Better Passer Claxton is playing much better this year. His improved passing skills are one of the most surprising new aspects of his game. Of the 53 centers that Basketball Reference currently considers to be “…

Claxton is getting a lot more assists this year partly because he's much more consciously assessing potential passing lanes. #NBA #NetsWorld

Nets Defense: Position-Relative Stocks Sometimes when people talk about defense, they make reference to the “stocks” stat—that is, steals plus blocks. I was curious how our guys have been doing vis a vis stocks. But I was also curious a…

One way you can judge defensive skills is by looking at position-relative stocks per possession #NBA #NetsWorld

There is Hope: Michael Porter, Jr., is Becoming a More Explosive Scorer Michael Porter, Jr., has been easing his way into being the team’s leader, clearly a position he was eager to inhabit. And it’s working out well. His scoring has been improving dramatically. This c…

There is Hope: Michael Porter, Jr., is Becoming a More Explosive Scorer #NBA #NetsWorld

I love Drake's intensity on court. Whenever he's guarding someone, he stares at them as if his eyes are piering through their bodies. He acts like he's the high priest of some weird religion of whose existence only he has become aware.

There is Hope: Our Defense Continues to Improve In the first five games, we had the worst defense in the league. But there was hope, since there were (admittedly, brief) stretches last year when Jordi Fernandez inspired the team to play great de…

There is hope: our defense is getting better. Much better. #NBA #NetsWorld

Well, a lot of what we Nets fans say on here this year will be tinged with the illogic of desperate hope.

Marks seems to want to hold out for two firsts... Seems in the realm of possibility.

Michael Porter's transformation with the Nets has an uncanny similarity with a previous player's transformation. #NBA #NetsWorld
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Claxton’s Game is Developing for the First Time in Years At the beginning of the year, Nic Claxton was telling everyone that his back was in better shape than it had been in years. I have a vague memory of Sarah Kustock mentioning that he’d become father…

Claxton’s Game is Getting Better for the First Time in Years. #NBA #NetsWorld

Four of our five rookies are giving me glimmers of hope. #NBA #NetsWorld
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I bet we might even become the tenth worst defense by the end of the year!