Brooklyn Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn is happy to have defensive minded guard Dennis Smith Jr. back in the lineup.
(via Brooklyn Nets):
“It’s definitely a piece that we were missing when he was gone. There’s a physicality that he plays with. There’s an edge that he plays with that he gives to the rest of the group. So the more he can stay healthy, the better we are. And then you look at the minutes since he’s played, I don’t have to extend Spencer [Dinwiddie], playing Wat [Trendon Watford] out of position. And so those things have a trickle-down effect when he doesn’t play.”
