MINNEAPOLIS — The Nets’ beleaguered bench nearly led a spirited comeback Saturday in Houston. With the starters overworked and looking run down, they’ll need that reserve unit to step up.
“I saw fatigue in all of us,” Kenny Atkinson said. “I really did.”
DeAndre Jordan was his usual dominant self on the boards with a dozen rebounds, including four on the offensive glass. The Nets have pretty much come to expect that. But Theo Pinson’s performance was an auspicious sign, as was that of Rodions Kurucs’.
Pinson has struggled at times running the second unit, but had 11 points — one shy of his season-high — in just 9:55.