Photo: Brooklyn Nets
Bojan Bogdanović has been reduced to minimal minutes over the past week. He’s clearly fallen out of favor with Lionel Hollins. Bojan has played a grand total of 33 minutes over the past four games. In those four games, only twice has his name reached the scorer’s sheet. Netsdaily.com posted the English version of his interview with Sportske Novosti. They discussed the transition to the NBA, his reduced minutes, and the overall lifestyle of living in New York.
Bojan Bogdanović with a couple of buckets
Brooklyn has quietly won five out of their last six games. They are now 15-16 that leaves as them the seventh seed. Besides their awful performance against Indiana on Saturday, they had a fairly productive week. A few wins against Boston and Sacramento were crucial as morale boosters. Then in their performance of the season, they blew out Chicago on the road in a 96-82 victory.
Photo: AP/Jonathan Bachman
Andrew Bogut has made some progress, but there has been no official date for his return. The hope is that he’ll be back by mid-January. In his road to recovery, he has started to run on the treadmill and taking flat-footed shots at practice. These are small steps in recovering from a serious injury. Golden State is still in relatively good shape. It’s essential that Bogut is healthy in their championship push come April.
Golden State has gone 2-2 over the past week. A shock ten-point loss to the lowly Lakers caught everyone off guard. Then a second consecutive double-digit loss against the Clippers occurred on Christmas day. It was only the second two-game losing streak this year for them. They have gotten back on track in beating Minnesota and Philadelphia with ease. In a tight race for home-court advantage, Golden State has a half game advantage over Portland.
Damjan Rudež has been out with an upper repository infection over the past ten days. He’s expected to be back within the next game or two. There is no word on what his role will be with the team. His minutes were declining dramatically over the past three weeks. He hasn’t played over 20 minutes since December fifth against Sacramento. There have been glimpses of upside in watching Rudež play. He’s still mostly limited in being a three-point specialist.
Indiana has gone 2-2 over the past week. A few good wins against playoff hopefuls Brooklyn and Miami could mean something come April. They nearly beat Chicago on Monday in a 92-90 loss. Besides an ugly 119-109 loss to Detroit, this was a relatively positive week for Indiana. Despite being at 12-21, Indiana is still only two games out of the eighth seed. It’s always an added bonus to play in the Eastern conference, where the talent level is drastically lower compared to the Western conference.
He’s on the wrong team. Hopefully he can get away from Hollins before the trade deadline
He’s from Mostar, so the likelihood of him being Serbian is low. The last name Bogdanovic isn’t that popular but it exists among both Croats and Serbs. But hey, It’s possible that maybe a great great grandfather of his is Serbian, making him about 5% Serbian.
Just like how Djokovic is only 25% Serbian, 25% Montenegrin, and 50% Croat, but plays for Serbia.
His name is Bogdanovic and you think hes croat? ahahahahahahahahahaha
Poor Bojan. Didn’t even play last night. He seemed pissed. Went in the locker and changed his shirt and left before media were allowed in. Wouldn’t talk to me.
I’m sure that 3+ mill a year he’s making would make a good cushion in the bench I suppose.
@ jp
i think rondo to the mavs was a necessary risk. he’ll make the team worse on offense with his lack of shooting. the mavs were actually the most efficient offensive team in history to start the year so any alterations will only bring them down
at the same time, they were a fairly poor rebounding and defending team. rondo is still an excellent rebounding guard. the hope is he gets re-motivated and becomes an excellent defender again as the mavs have to go through curry, westbrook, parker, lillard, harden etc along the way
so it could go bad, but the mavs weren’t going to win with current construction so they needed to risk it
Bogut still out???? You don’t say?
Lionel Hollins sucks!
I don’t follow the NBA like I used to, but I thought he was useless when he coached the Vancouver Grizzlies.
What y’all think of Rondo to the mavs?
Me likes a lot!
@ soul champ
you are correct
the nets offense is terrible. lionel hollins is not a modern day coach. with memphis he played a pure slow ground and pound game with his bigs, which is why they got rid of him even with the teams success so that they could move to a modern style of play
now memphis is finally in the top 10 in offensive efficiency.
wit thhe nets painful offense, bb has to stand around and watch most of the time
he would look like a much different player s on the spurs, rockets, or mavs
@ Armada
Sign me up for that.
@ Svima
Bojan not in a ideal spot with Brooklyn as they have an excess of slow, ball stopping veterans who need 5 dribbles to make a move. A decent athlete but not his game to provide athleticism to an old crew.
Has to run around after elite scorers on defense and on offense no support to get him off. He’ll be alright has his legs settle into the NBA game.
Hollins demands D and that takes a lot out of your shooting legs.
Bojan will be a weapon off the bench when his shooting confidence gets back in rhythm.
my goal in 2015 is to live more of a “u boj, u boj … za narod svoj’ lifestyle
@ All the Košarku fans
ESPN 3 has got a line up of the top 16 round one games today.
We are starting to build a core of young talent that will support our veteran core.
Šarić and Hezonja in effect today for their respective clubs.
1 ?
2 Hezonja
3 Bogdanović
4 Šarić
5 Tomic
6 Bender
7 Rudez
Play five out, movement attack basketball.
Love to see a homegrown Hrvat point guard.
Like a Croatian Stephen Curry.