“Just reading the game, reading the game not trying to force anything,” said Harden on his approach in piling up eight assists by halftime while taking just four shots. He’s had at least seven assists in all eight of Brooklyn’s games and is third in the NBA with 8.9 assists per game. Over Brooklyn’s three straight wins, Harden had 29 points against Indiana, a triple-double against Detroit, and then a double-double against Atlanta with 16 points and 11 assists while making five 3-pointers. Along the way, Harris passed Jason Kidd for the franchise lead in career 3-pointers, now with 825 as a Net in his sixth season in Brooklyn. After shooting 34.5 percent from 3-point range in Brooklyn’s first four games, he’s shot 48.3 percent over the last four, including 6-of-8 against the Hawks on Wednesday night. Harris led the NBA in 3-point shooting two of the last three seasons, topping 47.0 percent both times, and has the fifth-highest career 3-point percentage in NBA history (43.7). Harris and Harden both began to look more like themselves over the course of the homestand that left Brooklyn with a 5-3 record as it begins a six-game road trip in Detroit on Friday night. Once one guy gets going everybody starts to get going a little bit.”
We were able to get into a lot of positions like that tonight where guys were getting into the paint, defenders are collapsing and then it’s just all about making the right play from there and when guys are giving up a contested look for an open one you know you obviously shooting is sort of contagious. When James would get downhill two defenders would collapse, easy kickout to the high quad and then it’s just a read and react scenario from there. “They load up a lot in the paint and a lot of times it’s just making simple plays out of it,” said Joe Harris. The more we can do that consistently, we'll have really good shooting nights.” And tonight was a great example of that, four quarters. We get frustrated as a unit when we turn the ball over, when we can make the game so simple, get to the basket, kick out to our shooters and if they don’t have the shot make the quick decision. “We’ve got a lot of trust in each other to take the best shot every single possession. “We shared the ball,” said James Harden after the win over Atlanta. This came a game after the Nets shot a franchise-record 65.3 percent in Sunday’s win over Detroit, including 52.0 percent from 3-point range. In the 117-108 win over the Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn had 34 assists against just 14 turnovers and made a season-high 22 3-pointers on 48 attempts for a 45.8 percentage.
The Brooklyn Nets closed out their six-game homestand on Wednesday night with a three-game winning streak and an offensive attack that is rounding into form.
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