Seth Curry sat out Tuesday’s sport towards Houston, however the Nets aren’t planning to shelve the sweet-shooting guard for the remainder of the common season.
With Curry coping with a sore left ankle since earlier than he arrived in a Feb. 10 commerce from the 76ers, each he and the Nets admit a pair days of relaxation most likely received’t be adequate to unravel the issue. Brooklyn doesn’t see some extent in holding him out till the play-in, and hopes he can swimsuit up Wednesday versus the Knicks.
“No, I feel we’re hopeful that he performs [Wednesday],” Steve Nash mentioned. “It’s an additional day’s relaxation, it’s a back-to-back, so if he was going to play one in all these video games it most likely makes extra sense to provide him an additional day of relaxation to get well to play [versus the Knicks]. However we’ll see. We’ll see how he responds to nowadays. It’s delicate, a troublesome place as a result of relaxation will assist. There’s no assure that relaxation is the treatment in three-, four-, five-, six-, seven-, eight-day stretch. It is likely to be an offseason-type factor.
“So he could also be on this state, on this situation, for the rest of the season. So looking for him relaxation is unquestionably a precedence for us, but additionally realizing that if we relaxation him it doesn’t imply that he comes again and performs one sport and it’s all gone. It is likely to be proper again to the place we began. So it's a little bit difficult to simply maintain him out indefinitely to attempt to imagine that he’s going to be healed. That’s not what we imagine. You understand, he’s going to be healed. That’s not what we imagine. He’s going to be combating by means of this somewhat bit the remainder of the way in which.”
The ankle damage has reduce into Curry’s observe time, which in flip has harm his consistency. Nonetheless, even when he hasn’t hit 3s his gravity has been invaluable. His influence on Brooklyn’s offense has been even higher than it was on Philadelphia’s.
The Nets have seen their efficient field-goal share leap from 53.4 p.c with out Curry to 56.3 p.c with him, their Offensive Ranking vault from 113.4 to 119.8.
“Yeah, I feel the time he takes to get higher can be on him. I feel he’s high-quality; he seems to be high-quality. We want him. I feel so simple as that,” mentioned Andre Drummond, who arrived with Curry in that very same commerce from the Sixers. “You are taking out one in all our shooters, one in all our veteran guys who is aware of the sport very nicely, clearly. Seth has been superb for us so dropping him is unquestionably an enormous hit.”
Goran Dragic remains to be in well being and security protocols, and stays caught in Atlanta.
Bruce Brown (non-COVID sickness) was obtainable Tuesday after having been possible. However James Johnson (non-COVID sickness) was downgraded to out shortly earlier than tipoff after having been questionable.
Nash mentioned Nic Claxton has made strides not solely in consistency and conditioning, but additionally by way of his palms, catching, ending and rebounding in visitors.
Wednesday will mark the primary time Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving play collectively as Nets on the Backyard.
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