Steve Nash had no plans to change the Nets’ enjoying rotation on Saturday evening, however he went for an infusion of expertise together with his workforce trailing late within the third quarter.
Blake Griffin made his first look of this 12 months’s playoffs — and his first general since April 2 — and scored eight factors in eight minutes of the Nets’ 109-103 Recreation 3 loss to the Celtics.
“I assumed he performed his [butt] off,” Nash stated after the sport. “He actually hustled and labored and made a pair 3s and gave us a elevate.
“We wanted a elevate, some power and a few life and slightly little bit of perception.”
The six-time All-Star nursed an ankle damage late within the common season, however Griffin didn’t get off the bench within the first two losses of this sequence in Boston regardless of being out there to play.
Veteran ahead LaMarcus Aldridge nonetheless has not appeared within the sequence. Nash stated earlier than the sport that midseason pickup and present beginning heart Andre Drummond and athletic large man Nic Claxton are faster defensively and “match our group’s wants extra at this second in time.”
The 33-year-old Griffin got here off the bench with 1:27 left within the third quarter, and his consecutive 3-pointers early within the fourth drew the Nets inside 4, at 88-84.
“I’ve tried to remain prepared at each second,” Griffin stated. “More often than not it seems such as you’re not going to play, you’re usually proper. However they informed me, and I used to be prepared. However that’s simply a part of my job. It’s all of our jobs to remain prepared. But it surely was nice to be on the market.”
Claxton added 13 factors with seven rebounds, however Drummond had a quiet sport statistically with simply two factors and three boards in 16 minutes.
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