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Brooklyn Nets strategy: An inside look at Kenny Atkinson’s zone defense

Brooklyn takes pride in its use of the analytics. Every move has been done under the umbrella of the utmost efficiency.

Their offense is a Daryl Morey wet dream: it’s predicated upon the pick-and-roll as well as high-volume three-point shooting. They run a majority of their offense through their guards. Their offense is so futuristic that Brooklyn’s most important player might be a spot-up shooter.

Brooklyn has become a factory of sorts, using numbers as building blocks to spit out a winning product on an assembly line.

However, throughout the Kenny Atkinson era, defense has never been a strength.