Nets Coach Jordi Fernandez Discusses Team's Rebounding Woes After Loss To Pelicans

The Brooklyn Nets fell to nan New Orleans Pelicans 116-113 to adjacent retired their roadworthy trip.

After a December that saw nan Nets spell from 1 of nan worst protect teams successful nan convention to nan best, they've seen sizeable regression connected that broadside of nan floor, which is simply a immense logic they've now mislaid 5 games successful a row.

Rebounding nan shot is paramount for a squad to adjacent retired a protect possession, and nan Nets person simply struggled to incorporate nan solid contempt having respective tin large men of handling things down low.

"I support telling our guys complete and complete again really important protect rebounding is," Nets coach Jordi Fernandez said. "We started nan play arsenic nan worst protect rebounding squad successful nan history of nan NBA. We sewage amended for a agelong wherever we became nan number 1 for a stretch, and we would for judge move up retired of last. Now, successful nan past 3 games, we're backmost to for illustration really poor, and a crippled for illustration today, you don't rebound, you suffer everything else. If we conscionable do a decent occupation rebounding, we triumph this game."

Brooklyn was out-rebounded 53-43 by New Orleans, allowing nan Pelicans to drawback 18 violative boards for 33 second-chance points.

Securing rebounds is much than conscionable having size down low. A subordinate needs to study really to get cleanable positioning connected their man down debased and beryllium capable to expect wherever nan shot is going arsenic soon arsenic it leaves nan opponents' fingertips.

"I cognize our guys attraction astir doing nan correct things," Fernandez said. "The problem is correct now our attraction and our intentions are not location and that's thing that I sewage to thief them [get] amended [at] and there's different ways you tin do it obviously, truthful I'm gonna effort to do my champion to find 10 guys successful nan rotation that attraction astir rebounding, that attraction astir shot pressure, that attraction astir doing nan correct things, and past if you make mistakes, we tin unrecorded pinch it. But nan intentions and nan effort, it's a privilege for us. I spot nan group. They've ever shown a guidance and work. I spot nan coaches, because they ever travel backmost pinch a measurement and answers and affirmative energy."

The Nets' rebounding woes won't beryllium resolved overnight, arsenic it could return a caller acquisition aliases 2 to thief them get amended successful that department.