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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors: Adjustments between Games 4 and 5
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . One of the great things about the NBA playoffs is the tactical adjustments that coaches and teams make during a series. Switching up substitution patterns, making different configurations in...
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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors: The Andray Blatche Cameo
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . He only played 18:02 in Game 3, took three shots and had three personal fouls in that time span, but there was such a profound presence when Andray Blatche...
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Brooklyn vs Toronto Game 1: The Truth and Iso-Joe punish the Raptors
Game one, to borrow a cliché is "a feeling out process." The Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors played like two teams feeling each other out, akin to boxers just throwing jabs in the middle of...
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Brooklyn Nets explode in third quarter to defeat Orlando Magic
Image courtesy of Shinya Suzuki/Flickr . With just three games remaining in the season, and the Orlando Magic’s chances of making a postseason appearance long gone, head coach Jacque Vaughn will be extremely cautious with...
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Hot shooting propels Orlando Magic past Brooklyn Nets
Image courtesy of RMTip21/Flickr . The Orlando Magic, much to the chagrin of many of their fans, led for most of the game before nailing down a 115-111 victory. The win was Orlando’s 23rd on...
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Joe Johnson is the basketball equivalent of Eli Manning
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . On Sunday night, the Brooklyn Nets’ Joe Johnson rumbled to the rim with 10 seconds remaining in a tangle against the Dallas Mavericks, banking home a shot that would...
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Brooklyn Nets: Dark horse to win the East?
Image courtesy of Maxim Pierre/Flickr . Things were not looking good for the Brooklyn Nets at the beginning of 2014. Entering the new year with a 10-21 record, the Nets had an abundance of problems....
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Brooklyn Nets top Sacramento Kings with defensive prowess
Image courtesy of RMTip21/Flickr . The NBA is a league in which one team and one organization can turn their playoff hopes into realities within a single, solitary month of stellar basketball. It's a long...
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Are the Brooklyn Nets contenders in the East?
Image courtesy of B Wendell Jones/Flickr . The idea of who is a contender and who is not is always relative. Relative to the competitiveness of the league in that given year and also how...
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A comprehensive list of trades at the NBA deadline
Baller Mind Frame's No Layups brings you the hottest NBA stories on the web mixed with personal opinion from our very own Aaron Lanton . Check it often and absorb the knowledge we're dropping on...
