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With the Nets’ rotation decimated, they need any offense they can get. And they might have found some playmaking in an unlikely place: their biggest, burliest — and most maligned — offseason acquisition.
DeAndre Jordan.
The 6-foot-11, 265-pound center — who’s four-year, $40 million deal was largely criticized — has given Brooklyn size, rebounding and leadership. But it’s his newfound passing that’s been an unexpected gift for a team in dire need of it.
“You know what you’re going to get out of D: veteran guy that can really protect the rim obviously, put pressure on the basket on the offensive end and get every rebound that comes off the rim,” Garrett Temple said.