NET NOTES
Some hits and misses from the Nets’ five-game Thanksgiving week road trip:
Jason Kidd averaged 8.4 assists, despite a season-low five assists (all in the second half) in the final game at Utah.
After a monster 14-rebound game at Seattle, Kenyon Martin had 25 rebounds in the next four games.
Center Jason Collins averaged 10.6 points and shot a gaudy .704 (19- of-27), the only Net rotation regular to shoot .500. But Collins had just 16 rebounds in 140 minutes.
Kerry Kittles scored a total of 15 points in the three losses, 21 points in the two victories.
Richard Jefferson shot 15-of-22 (.682) in the first and last games but 6-of-21 (.286) in the middle three games.
Rodney Rogers had his finest game as a Net: 10-of-16 with 23 points against Sacramento. But he was 7-of-31 (.225) with 23 points (5.8) in the other four games.
The Nets were crushed, 228-182 (45.6 to 36.4) on the backboards, including a 63-47 (12.6 to 9.4) margin in offensive rebounds.
The Nets held a healthy advantage in fast-break points, 76-37, but were dominated on second-chance points, 75-52.
* The Nets begin a four-game homestand tonight against the Grizzlies. Nine of the remaining 14 games in December are at home. “We’ve had a heck of a run here, a lot of four-in-five-nights, and it doesn’t stop when we get home. Somewhere hopefully the schedule will give us a break,” said Kidd, who took a hard fall in the final minute Monday, landing on his butt. He is expected to play.
Byron Scott sounds exasperated at times. “I’m getting frustrated and I’m sure they are, too,” the coach said, annoyed particularly by the rebounding disparity on the trip . . . Jason Collins’ take on why the rebounding is so lopsided: “All five guys have to do a better job of getting a body on people and getting them out of there, and once we get a body on them, go get the ball.”