\u201cDayDay is a beast. He\u2019s a starting five in the NBA,\u201d Michael Porter Jr. said.<\/p>\n
Sharpe added: \u201cI\u2019ve been in the league five years now, so just every summer, just every game, really, when I\u2019m not playing a lot of minutes, running, lifting. When I\u2019m the only big, just picking and choosing my battles of when to go for a hard contest I know I can\u2019t get, or when to go for a steal if I know I can\u2019t get in foul trouble. It\u2019s just maturity, learning as I\u2019ve been in the league.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Day\u2019Ron Sharpe looks to pass the ball during the Nets\u2019 win over the Nuggets on Jan. 4. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Cam Thomas came off the bench again Sunday, scoring 17 points in his microwave-scorer sixth-man role.<\/p>\n
But the way he did it was noteworthy.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless 11-minute first half with only a single shot, Thomas had all his production after the break.<\/p>\n
He shot 5-for-9 overall in 11:27, though head coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez said the eruption had more to do with game play than mindset.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he kept making the right play because they were blitzing him,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cAnd every time they blitzed him, he got the ball to the open man, and we\u2019re finding the right shots. A lot of times when you get blitzed and you find the player in the middle, you don\u2019t get the assist because the ball goes in the middle, from the middle to the corner or whatever the case may be. But you\u2019ve created that.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Cam\u2019s impact in the game was big in the first half because he was unselfish and he created those shots, and big in the second because some of the things that he did, they couldn\u2019t blitz him and he found himself and to the rim he found himself doing what he does, making tough shots. And he ended up with 17 points. The plus-minus doesn\u2019t really make a lot of sense. But everything was positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cam Thomas #24 of the Brooklyn Nets puts up a shot over Spencer Jones #21 of the Denver Nuggets in the second half. The Brooklyn Nets defeat the Denver Nuggets at the Barclays Center. JASON SZENES\/ NY POST<\/p>\n
Nikola Jokic was out for Denver with a bone bruise in his left knee and Cam Johnson \u2014 who the Nets traded to the Nuggets for Porter \u2014 was sidelined with a bone bruise in his right knee.<\/p>\n
Noah Clowney had 22 points, six rebounds and was a plus-18 in a solid bounce-back performance. <\/p>\n
The young forward shot 6-for-10 overall and 4-for-6 from deep with a late-game block.<\/p>\n
It marked his fifth 20-point night of the season.<\/p>\n
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The Nets had a season-high six players muster at least 13 points in Porter, Clowney, Sharpe, Thomas, rookie Egor D\u00ebmin and Ziaire Williams. <\/p>\n
The last will feel robbed of three after beating the halftime buzzer with a three-quarter-court heave that was initially signaled as good, but was waved off due to the Trent Tucker Rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn center Nic Claxton missed a second straight game due to a personal matter, though he is expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,11480,20470,21,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-89673","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-cameron-thomas","13":"tag-dayron-sharpe","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89673","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=89673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}