As Matt Brooks notes in his Trending Up, Trending Down story Wednesday morning, this is not the Rodions Kurucs Nets fans had hoped for after his surprising rookie year. After averaging 8.5 points and 3.9 rebounds —and playing thoroughly annoying defense— the 6’10” Latvian is having a hard time.
No one is overreacting ... yet, but Kenny Atkinson believes he knows the cause and is certainly aware of the effect.
“He’s trying to find himself with this new team,” Atkinson told Brian Lewis. “I think that’s a [situation which] last year we could throw him in, run him out there, ‘Hey, you’re playing 25, 30 minutes whether you make a mistake or not.