Nets\u2019 105-98 loss<\/a> Friday at Orlando, coming in having averaged just six points on .233 shooting and .208 from deep over his prior four games. <\/p>\nBut it was his work on the other end that was most auspicious.<\/p>\n
The forward notched a season-high three steals, got in passing lanes and finished plus-4 in 36:05 after being an aggregate minus-46 in his last four.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Defense) fuels me a lot. That\u2019s where my energy comes from is being that spark on the defensive end and helping that translate to the offensive side. I need to do a better job for my teammates of holding my assignment better and being dialed-in at all times. So I feel like I\u2019ve let them down a little bit the last couple games. So I\u2019ll be on it,\u201d Williams said beforehand, admitting he\u2019d been pressing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, for sure. Definitely. Just trying to do too many things at once. Trying to save the world in one play. You know, it\u2019s just my competitiveness. But it happens. So it\u2019s all a learning process. And I\u2019ve had good conversations with Jordi and the coaches who watch film on me and stuff. So, I\u2019m excited to get after it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Day\u2019Ron Sharpe returned from his glute injury and had four points and five rebounds in just 14:11.<\/p>\n
Cam Thomas was out with a hamstring, while rookies Danny Wolf, Nolan Traore and Ben Saraf were all on G League Assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO \u2014 The Nets need Ziaire Williams to get back to guarding the way he did a year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[355,23429,21,9,11,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-40392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-jose-fernandez","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Ziaire Williams (left) battles Orlando guard Jeff Howard battle for a loose ball during the Nets\u2019 105-98 road loss to the Magic on Nov. 14, 2025. AP<\/p>\n