Steve Nash needs to extend bench rotation , paging DeAndre Jordan and Mike James

Aside from extended garbage minutes in Game 2, Steve Nash has kept his bench rotation short and leaned heavily on James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving to shoulder the lion's share of the minutes and scoring punch.

DeAndre Jordan has yet to play a single minute and backup point guard Mike James has just eight minutes for the entire series. Kudos to Steve Nash for sticking to his guns and going with his big dogs, but the Nets are going to need to develop the confidence of their bench if they hope to go deep into the playoffs.

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The Big Three needs time to develop chemistry together, but the energy and scrappiness of the bench is what carried Brooklyn through the majority of the regular season without its top players fully healthy. Look for Nash to possibly toy with his rotations in an effort too late to spark under his team and escape Boston with a win in Game 4.