The Nets are looking to improve their defense as they continue to rack up losses.
New Jersey coach Kiki Vandeweghe is trying to establish a defensive foundation.
"Obviously there are offensive-minded players and defensive-minded players," Vandeweghe said. "But rather than focus on more rotations and things like that, we?ll focus on guarding your own man.
"And initially ? admittedly ? we may get hurt more by that (by removing the) added responsibility. But anyone can learn to guard their own man if you put a focus on that."
The Nets are allowing 109.0 points per 100 possessions, 22nd among the NBA's thirty teams.
"The thing we'd rather stay away from is gimmicks," Vandeweghe said. "What we've said, our stated goal from the beginning, is to teach the guys a great foundation. And the first foundation is learn to guard your man ? take responsibility for guarding your men.
"It all stems from there ? all the different rotations and helps all work if you can guard your own man. So until we do that, that'll be the focus."
"If we learn that, we can learn more aggressive switches. But you have to initial focus on the foundation. To me ? and maybe it's my UCLA background ? the fundamentals are important and you don?t move on until you get those fundamentals."