Mikal Bridges has emerged as a top-flight scorer, a Most Improved Player candidate and a franchise cornerstone.
, Bridges is averaging 20.4 points, but that doesn’t begin to tell the tale of how impactful he’s been — and how much more impactful the Nets are convinced he can be as he learns not just to react to defenses but to proactively outwit them.
“Has Mikal has been able to improve as a player? Yes. On both ends of the floor? Yes. Can he still get better? Yes,” Vaughn said. “There’s some things he’s doing more than he’s previously done, which is improvement. We want to continue to see his improvement.”That improvement likely will be more on the offensive end.The 26-year-old also is an ironman, a quality valued by a Nets franchise hurt byduring the Durant-Kyrie Irving era.
It’s somewhat akin to a chess master going from projecting 10 moves ahead to a grandmaster clearly seeing twice that.And as Bridges’ reading of the game improves, can he become that archetypal star that modern teams surround with shooters for spacing? Bridges is shooting just 35.4 percent overall and just 13.9 percent from 3-point range in his past four games, punctuated by an unsightly 7-of-24, 1-of-12 line on Friday night.
Bridges is scoring more than 27 points per game and shooting better than 37 percent from 3-point range in a Nets uniform.“With Mikal they’ll still help [off him] a little bit, but they’re going to fire out to him, so if you even look or glance his way, his guy’s leaving immediately. So it’s understanding the nuances of how guys are playing different defenses,” Dinwiddie said. “With Mikal, they might help, but they’re going back to him every time, so it’s fake help.
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