On the morning of Nov. 4 in Washington, Jacque Vaughn stood up before his Nets and spoke, ad hoc but from the heart.
“When we came back as a group, we pledged to each other that it was going to be about basketball and hopefully not let anything interfere — any outside noise interfere with that,” Vaughn said. “And our guys have done an unbelievable job of protecting each other and making this thing about basketball. Our shootaround in Washington was the precipice of that.” Steve Nash had been let go and Vaughn had lost his first game as coach.
“Just knowing what we want to do every time we step on the floor keeps our mind at ease and we have a belief in whatever Jacque tells us,” Durant said. The health and availability are obvious, from Irving being back from an eight-game suspension to Simmons’ return to form. The latter’s net rating in Brooklyn’s NBA-best 10-game win streak is 17.3, third-best in the league of players who had logged at least 140 minutes as of Thursday. Nets’ Kevin Durant gets ‘hands dirty’ with stellar defensive play
“You might not know whatever it might be for the next person, but everybody’s got something going on. So once we step into the building — whether its practice or a game — let’s put that to the side for three, four hours and just focus on the group and winning basketball games.” “As a group, just sticking together and believing and trusting the process. We had pretty much a new group, a lot of new faces. So for us, it’s really coming together, sticking with it.
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