Milwaukee Bucks Game Preview: Feb. 15 at Brooklyn Nets

Major Key For Milwaukee: Keep Up

The Nets are smart. That sounds ludicrous considering Brooklyn’s current record and standing, but the Nets know they’re bad. To try and offset that, Brooklyn runs at the fastest pace in the NBA and fires up a ton of threes as a team.

Only the Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics attempt more three-pointers per game than Brooklyn. The Nets are a pretty young team with lots of players hungry to prove themselves in the NBA.

Essentially, their plan is to use their youth as a weapon, and run other teams ragged while chucking a ton of threes. The plan doesn’t work out often for a few reasons, the first being that although the Nets are shooters, they don’t make very many of their attempts. Brooklyn is 26th in three-point percentage this season.

Also, the Nets cannot defend anybody. With a rotation of D-League graduates and Randy Roye guarding the point of attack and Brook Lopez trying to protect the rim, it’s no wonder that Brooklyn has the NBA’s fourth-worst defense as per defensive rating. Their pace plays into that as well.

The best chance Brooklyn has on Wednesday is praying that their shots fall, and hoping to outrun the Bucks. Going small should help with the first thing, and expanding the rotation a bit could help keep the Bucks fresh in what should be a very fast game.