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Brooklyn Nets: Player grades from win over East heavyweight Celtics

By Phil Watson

Brooklyn Nets D'Angelo Russell. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
Brooklyn Nets D'Angelo Russell. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2019 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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PF. Brooklyn Nets. TREVEON GRAHAM. F. 27 MIN, 0-for-5 (0-for-4), 4 REB, 1 AST, 4 PF, +7

Treveon Graham‘s shot continues to be delayed in arriving in Brooklyn after he was signed as a free agent last summer following a two-year stint with the Charlotte Hornets.

Graham entered this season a 43.8 percent career shooter from 3-point range, but he has not looked comfortable shooting the ball as a member of the Brooklyn Nets — not in the preseason, not in the first two games before he missed more than two months with a hamstring injury and not in six games since returning from that injury.

His shooting percentage on the season would be a bad batting average if this was baseball instead of basketball. It’s been next-level bad.

After Monday’s bagel-for-5, donut-for-4 shooting night, Graham is hitting 17.5 percent overall and 11.5 percent from deep.

No, seriously. Those are the numbers. Graham is 7-for-40 overall and 3-for-26 from 3-point range.

The biggest winner in Graham making the last two starts for Brooklyn at the 4 spot may be Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, whose wayward shooting suddenly appears to make him the second coming of Stephen Curry when compared to Graham.

Brooklyn Nets. ED DAVIS. C. 14 MIN, 6 PTS, 3-for-4, 7 REB (2 ORB), 5 PF, 1 TO, -6. C

Ed Davis was efficient when he was on the floor. The problem was that didn’t happen for very long as he piled up fouls quickly.

If you’re looking for a reason why a guy who shoots 62.2 percent from the floor and averages 17 rebounds per 36 minutes has never found his way into a starting lineup with regularity, it would be because he fouls. A lot.

Davis is averaging 5.8 whistles per 36 minutes, the runaway leader on the Brooklyn roster (Jared Dudley is second at 4.0 fouls per 36).

On the other hand, he’s found a comfortable niche as mentor/backup to young Jarrett Allen and as an enforcer in the paint when the shot-swatting kid is taking a breather.

Inactives

  • Allen Crabbe (sore right knee, 16th straight game missed, 17th overall)
  • Jared Dudley (left hamstring strain, 2nd straight game missed)
  • Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (right adductor strain, 7th straight game missed, 11th overall)
  • Caris LeVert (subtalar dislocation, right foot; 31st straight game missed)
  • Dzanan Musa (left shoulder subluxation, 14th straight game missed, 28th overall)

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