The Brooklyn Nets keep winning games. Most teams as bad as they are have fully embraced the tanking lifestyle by this point in the season, but since they don’t own their own pick, they can tell their players to play hard and try to actually win games. It’s kind of refreshing, actually. And it doesn’t change the fact that their roster is the craziest collection of role-players/sub-role-players ever, so I still get my fill of scrublights.
Caris LeVert has been playing decently during this stretch, but he’s still not being as aggressive as I’d like on offense. Looking at his stats this season, he only has a small handful (three, including this one) of games where he has attempted 10 or more shots. Meanwhile, someone like Rondae Hollis-Jefferson has 17 such games. The nature of the Nets’ roster is such that there isn’t necessarily someone who needs to take a ton of shots, but maybe that should change the last few games? Imagine the hype in the New York area if LeVert scores 30 in the final game of the season. It’ll be like that time Archie Goodwin scored 29 in similar circumstances, the hype from that game still carrying him even as he’s on the Nets a couple years later.