Unlike many other teams around the NBA who rested their key players in their season finales, the Nets opted to give all of their players a chance to get some work in last night's 103-99 victory over the Pistons in Brooklyn.
The logic behind the decision interim coach P.J. Carlesimo made to give his players some playing time in an otherwise meaningless game was understandable. After the Nets lost their chance to move up to the third seed in the East Sunday when they lost to the Raptors in Toronto, they rested Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Keith Bogans, Reggie Evans, Brook Lopez and Jerry Stackhouse in Monday's win over the Wizards.
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JAM SESSION: Gerald Wallace, who played just 27 minutes, slams one home during the Nets' 103-99 victory over the Pistons last night at Barclays Center. The Nets will face the Bulls in the first round of the NBA playoffs starting Saturday.
If Carlesimo had opted to hold them all out of last night's game, as well, it could mean they would be out of action for an entire week before the Nets began their first-round series against the Bulls at Barclays Center on Saturday.
"There's a possibility that we might not play again until Sunday, so there's a lot of days off," Williams said before finishing with eight points and six assists in 21 minutes. "So I think just the reps, and going out there and getting a good sweat in and just working on us, [and] not coming out there and just taking the night off because the game doesn't really mean anything, as far as the standings go."
Carlesimo said he would play his starters 18-24 minutes, and that's what he did. Williams, Johnson (10 points) and Lopez (20 points and nine rebounds) all finished with 21 minutes played, while Reggie Evans (seven points and 11 rebounds) played 24 minutes.
The only starter who played more was Gerald Wallace, who had five points and three assists in 27 minutes.
Carlesimo had hinted that Wallace, who returned to the floor Monday for the first time in two games after suffering a lower left leg contusion last Wednesday in Chicago, might get some extra minutes in order to try to improve his conditioning level.
Stackhouse finished with six points in 14 minutes, knocking down a pair of 3-pointers, while Andray Blatche and Kris Humphries had 15 and 11 points, respectively, off the bench.
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