On Wednesday night, Kenny Atkinson, seeing his point guards were exhausted in the back end of a back-to-back, turned to Shabazz Napier for more than 10 minutes and the UConn product came through, keeping the Nets in the game. He didn’t score but handed out three assists.
“I felt like our guys that were playing big minutes, they looked a little tired. I just tried to get our subs in earlier, threw Shabazz [Napier] in there. He gave us some good minutes. We needed everybody.”
“We just know that everybody has to do their part,” Russell said.