Dennis Schroders career-best start stabilizing the Nets with future uncertain

At some point while playing the Grizzlies, Dennis Schroder told Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez to put the ball in his hands. Fernandez replied, “OK, I got you,” according to Schroder, and the trust paid off for the Nets in a 119-106 road victory.Schroder scored 33 points, his high as a Net, to go with eight assists. He scored 11 of those points in the fourth quarter to propel the Nets. It was yet another hot night for the veteran point guard, who is off to a stunning career-best season start. “Yeah, I told him that I want to win the game,” Schroder said about the interaction Wednesday night.

“So, it’s working right now that we’re pushing the ball and I’m getting into the paint and I make the decision from there.And I told him to give me the ball, and he said, ‘OK, I got you.’ And gladly, we won the game, too.” Schroder, who is in his 12th year in the NBA, is averaging a career-best 24.6 points across the first five games of the season to rank No.

19 in the league.He is shooting 54 percent from the field and 55 percent from beyond the 3-point line. He is averaging more points than while playing for Germany in the Paris Olympic this summer (19.7) over three games, and more than his two seasons playing for that country in FIBA in 2019 (19.6) and 2023 (19.7). His NBA career average is 14.4 points.  Sign up for Inside the Nets by Brian Lewis, exclusively on Sports+.

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Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! The 31-year-old Braunschweig, Germany, native also has a career high 8.2 assists per game, good for fifth in the league. While Schroder is playing on an expiring $13 million contract and is potentially in danger of being used for a move at the trade deadline, his current level of play certainly doesn’t put that into the Nets’ minds. “At one point,...