Asked by Alex Labidou what’s the one word he’d use to sum up the Nets season —and what he expects for the rest of the year, Kenny Atkinson replied, “Improvement.”
“Improvement. Gradual improvement – [it’s] product of the work we’ve done, that we’ve put in over a year and a half since Sean [Marks] and I have been here,” said about the season thus far. “The caveat is we’re not satisfied; we want to keep pushing. We keep saying we have a finger through the ceiling, we’re trying to punch a fist. We haven’t gotten a fist through yet.