Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant is facing a 7-day quarantine after being exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Durant will miss the next four games and new head coach Steve Nash now has a tough decision to make.
On the daily Locked On Nets Podcast, host Doug Norrie reacts to the news surrounding Durant and attempts to figure out how Steve Nash will replace KD in the starting lineup.
Doug Norrie: Now that Kevin Durant is out it's tricky because you would think Nash would just put Taurean Prince back up at the four. He played out of position there last year, but we know those results weren't the best, maybe that's the easiest or most obvious choice.
The one thing I would glean from what happened when Spencer Dinwiddie went down is that the Nets didn't automatically dip down and put Caris LeVert into the starting lineup. So then maybe Jeff Green is just the obvious slide up in the depth chart, but then that's upsetting the second unit, right? It's upsetting whatever continuity you have there. So if I look at that, based on that situation with Dinwiddie, I would think that the Nets look to reach deeper down into the roster and potentially elevate someone else into that role. Not because that player would replace KD, just because you're trying to maintain whatever stability you have in these other areas of your team, which would include the second unit with Jarrett Allen, LeVert, Prince, Landry Shamet, etc.
So maybe that's what I can learn from it, but we all know it's also early days for Steve Nash and his Nets staff. So it's not like that one sample size is automatically the blueprint for how they handle injury replacements going forward.
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