--The Nets are expected to use a small lineup featuring three wing players, point guard Devin Harris and center Brook Lopez through the campaign this season against selected alignments. Coach Lawrence Frank explained the strengths of his three wings, Courtney Lee, Chris Douglas-Roberts and rookie Terrence Williams. "With the way CDR can attack the basket, Courtney's understanding of the game and how to get shots and Terrence's bulldoggish ways, you see a lot of fight with those guys," Frank said. "It's very realistic," insisted Douglas-Roberts. "It's all about fronting the post because out there on the wing, I'm real comfortable playing a bigger guy, but when they come in the post, just front and help and everybody block out."
--With Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov poised to take ownership of the team, providing the team is indeed moving to Brooklyn, the Nets' hierarchy has acknowledged the possibility of playing home games in Newark at the Prudential Center while their new facility is being built. The Nets staged two pre-season games at Prudential Center, home of the New Jersey Devils, during pre-season and found enthusiastic crowds.
"After the master closing for our Brooklyn transaction this fall, we may consider an agreement to play our home games at the Prudential Center through the time we move to our new home, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, in the 2011-12 NBA season," Nets CEO Brett Yormark said in a statement.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "It's tough. Obviously, we were in control pretty much the whole game, but if you look at the situation, it's one of those things we have to learn as a team, how to put teams away." -- G Devin Harris, after the Nets blew a 19-point lead and lost at the buzzer in their season-opener.
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