What Nick?s presence is taking from Nash is two minutes and two shots a game. What he?s giving Stevie Do-Right is a new vitality, a chance to do more with less.
     ?Why keep him out of games,?? coach Don Nelson says of the battered Nash, ?when we can reduce his minutes and get the same result???
     If the plan for the pinballing wizard is to get more production from him in fewer minutes, then during the present four-game experiment, the plan is working brilliantly.
     Check out the numbers:
     

Nash?s stats in the four games prior to the Feb. 21 trade: 23-of-61 shooting (37 percent), 9-of-17 from the arc (52 percent), 21-to-12 assists-to-turnovers ratio, 18.5 points and 31.7 minutes per game.
     
Nash?s stats in the four games since the trade: 25-of-51 shooting (51 percent), 7-of-10 from the arc (70 percent), 30-to-11 assists-to-turnovers ratio, 16.5 points and 29.5 minutes per game.