NEW YORK — The Brooklyn fillets (3-3) are off to a formidable begin to the 2024-25 NBA season after posting wins over the Milwaukee Bucks and Memphis Grizzlies. Heading into Friday’s match towards Chicago Bulls (3-3), Brooklyn seemed to proceed its successful streak in its try to show doubters mistaken by proving extra aggressive than anticipated.
THE Nets did that and extra by beating the Bulls 120-112 thanks largely to Cam Thomas who had 32 factors and 4 assists within the contest. Cam Johnson additionally contributed with an total efficiency of 14 factors, six rebounds and 5 assists, whereas Keon Johnson was an enormous spark coming off the bench with 12 factors, three rebounds and a steal in simply 9 minutes.
Whereas Brooklyn did not shoot the ball effectively from three-point vary due to the Bulls’ towering protection limiting three-point taking pictures, the Nets discovered a method round that drawback by scoring 66 factors within the paint. Listed here are three takeaways for the Nets after their win over the Bulls on Friday:
Cam Thomas does it once more
Earlier than this season began, many anticipated Thomas to be the first scorer on a Brooklyn staff on the lookout for somebody to fill that position after Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks through the offseason. Thomas answered that decision and extra as he now averages 28.2 factors per sport as of this writing, rating him ninth within the NBA in scoring. Thomas scored in any respect three ranges and with pictures like the emblem three which he made mainly like a dagger to finish this match, he reveals that his confidence is rising with every passing match and that may solely imply good issues for him -even and for the Nets.
Keon Johnson
Johnson did not play a lot for the Nets this season as he performed third guard off the bench at any time when Dennis Schroder or Ben Simmons wanted relaxation, however Johnson took turns with Shake Milton for that position. On Friday, Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez determined to go together with Johnson and it labored out splendidly as Johnson was an enormous spark coming off the bench along with his power and athleticism altering the dynamic of the sport. For Johnson to solely play 9 minutes and have as many highlights as he did, it is clear he was locked in earlier than the sport even began.
Bench
That is dishonest in a way on condition that the Nets technically have six starters since Nic Claxton has been Brooklyn’s beginning middle for the previous three seasons. Nonetheless, as Claxton recovers from his left hamstring pressure, he got here off the bench and supplied stability in the course of a Brooklyn staff that lacked a lot of its frontcourt depth from the beginning from coaching camp. Not solely was Claxton environment friendly, however each different participant off the Nets bench scored at the very least seven factors and three of them, together with Claxton, scored in double figures in a sport towards Chicago that was performed on the thread.
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