After seeing arguably the Nets’ best rim protection of the season fuel their easiest rout of the year, it begs the obvious question: Where had this been?
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It was a rare showing of rim protection from a squad that came into that night last in the entire NBA. The Nets have been switch-happy for years, but the bigs were also able to protect the rim. Now under Fernandez, the bigs are tasked with being more aggressive defending the pick-and-roll, blitzing and trapping ballhandlers. “Last year it was more try to keep the center at the rim,” Sharpe told The Post. “ wanted us to go block every single thing, disrupt the ball at the top of the screen go try to block it. No matter who the low man is, we’re going to try to block it.
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