Cam Thomas and Trendon Watford have been dominated out of Brooklyn’s highway matchup towards the Detroit Pistons on Saturday. Each are managing left hamstring accidents.
Thomas returned from a 24-game absence in Friday’s loss to the Portland Path Blazers and completed with 16 factors on 7-of-17 taking pictures with one help and three turnovers in 21 minutes.
“Decent first game back,” Thomas mentioned. “Obviously missed some shots that I normally make when I’m in rhythm and playing, but that’s just the nature of being off for a while and coming back and playing in your first game. So, shots I’m not really worried about. Those are going to come. Feels good to finally finish a game and not have any pain. So, that’s the main thing I’m pleased with.”
Watford, who has stepped up as a main ball handler since Ben Simmons was purchased out, has averaged 11.4 factors, 3.4 rebounds and three.4 assists over his previous eight video games off the bench whereas taking pictures 48.6% from the sphere 30.8% from deep. He was a double determine scorer in six of these eight appearances.
Saturday’s sport was the Nets’ second in a back-to-back set. D’Angelo Russell (proper ankle sprain) and Noah Clowney (left ankle sprain) remained out towards Detroit, whereas Tosan Evbuomwan remained on G League task. That left Brooklyn severely undermanned towards one of many hottest groups within the league.
The Pistons have been the sixth seed within the Jap Convention getting into Saturday’s sport and received eight straight earlier than Friday’s 134-119 loss to the Denver Nuggets. The Nets, in eleventh place at 21-38, have misplaced 4 of 5 for the reason that All-Star break.
“I have to be better,” head coach Jordi Fernandez mentioned following Friday’s loss. “I have to help them better. It’s not the first time we haven’t shown up at the beginning, then we wake up a little bit and it’s not good enough. So, this is not who we want to be and we’re building our identity… Winning starts now, and this is not the way.”
