The Oklahoma City Thunder learned its lesson on how not to guard Nuggets center Nene on Sunday night.

“I think we really look at it as our team needs to do a better job on stopping his easy catches,” said Brooks after Thunder’s practice today. “He was getting in transition. I thought he had three or four buckets in transition, and that’s not on Perk, that’s on our team’s defensive transition scheme.”

Brooks wants his troops to be more physical with the Nuggets’ big man.

“We just have to push him off his spot,” Brooks said. “He had a lot of points around the basket. We all know that’s what he does very well. He leads the league in percentage and he’s not taking 19-footers to get that percentage. He’s a great scorer around the rim and we have to push him off of that area that he’s comfortable at, which is not easy to do. He’s a man down there, he’s strong. We have to fight him better. I feel that we have to do a much better job of that.”