He attacked close-outs more viciously than last season and looked more confident.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery. Trying to be aggressive helps my teammates. Yeah, it\u2019s really it,\u201d Clowney said.<\/p>\n
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Noah Clowney looks to move ball during the Nets\u2019 Nov. 24 loss to the Knicks. \tIMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
The forward \u2014 at 21, still younger than rookie teammate Danny Wolf and half of this incoming draft class \u2014 has blossomed as a starter. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s averaging 18.1 points in his past seven games, hitting 40 percent from deep.<\/p>\n
Ziaire Williams was a healthy scratch, dropped from the rotation altogether Monday by head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez for a disappointing lack of defense.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just my decision. I wanted to challenge him with his defense,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cLast year, he was elite in a lot of the things that we care defensively, from ball pressure to deflections to pick-and-roll defense to defending isolations, and he was huge and I haven\u2019t felt that energy. And then, I can go through the numbers, and they were not there. So I challenge him to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t all the way happy with the last two games, and I just gave a chance to [Jalen Wilson], who is always being ready whether I\u2019m playing more or less. He\u2019s always been there for his teammates. \u2026 It\u2019s just about giving an opportunity to somebody else to refocus, to be ready for the next opportunity. And when it comes, then just take it and sustain it and be the best defensive player on the team and one of the best in the NBA \u2026 which I believe he\u2019s more than capable of doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Saraf is hurt, and both Nolan Traore and Danny Wolf have mostly toiled in the G-League. <\/p>\n
While Traore has been seen as the most in need of seasoning, the struggling French teen has had some encouraging outings of late in Long Island.<\/p>\n
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He had 15 points, nine assists and two rebounds Monday in the G-League, after having 28 points and nine assists Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to play a competitive and winning game of basketball. It starts with the habits,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cI know he saw the ball go in, which are things you can\u2019t always control, but you can control taking the right shots, make the right play. He had a 9-to-3 assist-to-turnover ratio, which is very good. So all those things are positive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With so much focus on developing Brooklyn\u2019s rookies, no Nets player has developed more than Noah Clowney. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,21,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-51489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489","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=51489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}