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Kristian Winfield

‘Pick Your Poison’: The 7-11 Screen is a new wrinkle in the Nets’ offense

It happened with just under five minutes left in the fourth quarter against the Charlotte Hornets on Wednesday.

Kevin Durant had the ball about 10 feet behind the top of the key with Hornets defender JT Thor draped on him. Kyrie Irving flared from near the elbow and set a screen on Durant, bringing his man, Terry Rozier, with him.

This is the moment both Edmond Sumner and Royce O’Neale describe as “pick your poison,” and it’s a play — what we’ll call the ‘seven-eleven screen-and-roll’ — the Nets are trying to incorporate into a high-powered offense.

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