PHILADELPHIA — With their three massive males all down, the Nets handed younger Noah Clowney a begin at heart Wednesday.
The second-year battled — however not sufficient, roughed up by Andre Drummond in a 117-95 preseason loss.
“I feel he didn’t battle exhausting sufficient. Clearly it’s a nice studying expertise for everyone,” coach Jordi Fernandez stated. “There’s technicalities clearly, like the way you entrance someone, the way you push him out. It’s undoubtedly a problem. However I’d have preferred to see a greater battle.
“And it’s simply not simply Noah, it’s everyone else. I can go down the road with Keon [Johnson], Ziaire [Williams], everyone, the starters. Sooner or later, this isn’t about you. That is about us. And if we don’t play exhausting as a crew, we’re simply not ok.”
With Nic Claxton and Day’Ron Sharpe — the one two pure massive males on the roster — each out, Ben Simmons had began the primary two video games.
However Sharpe obtained a scheduled evening off because the Nets handle his return from surgical procedure.
Clowney had 11 factors, eight rebounds and two blocks.
However Philadelphia moved the spindly sophomore off the block and obtained into the paint. It was a tricky lesson.
“Yeah. You gotta develop from each recreation. You’ll be able to take the sport one in every of two methods,” stated the 20-year-old Clowney. “I gotta develop from it. If I don’t develop from it then I don’t imagine. … At this stage, you’re both gonna get higher and study from it otherwise you’re gonna go the opposite manner.
“The scale of the particular person I’m going towards shouldn’t be what considerations me about how we performed. What considerations me extra is my self-discipline to make the precise calls, get my crew in the precise place, be certain once I’m on the backline that my crew is aware of what they’re doing and after we’re doing it, and simply speaking higher.”
Killian Hayes has missed all three preseason video games now with a sore hip.
“I’d like to see him. He’s doing properly. He’s rehabbing,” Fernandez stated. “He’s been simply engaged on getting again and getting proper. And I’d like to, however we’ll assess him after we get again and see what we will do.
“We’re not going to hurry him, as a result of his well being is our precedence, similar as each different participant. So it’s no must danger. He’s executed a great job. … We’ve got our personal analysis on him, and we’re very proud of him.”
The Nets haven’t determined to fill holes with their open two-way (backup heart, backup level guard) or apply it to the very best obtainable.
“Yeah, that’s gonna be a dialogue between myself, [general manager] Sean [Marks] and his crew,” Fernandez stated. “As soon as we undergo these video games, we’ll sit down and we’ll talk about how we really feel. I like the fellows which were right here for now. And that’s all I can say at this second.”
