Will Russell and Crabbe buy into Nets’ defense-first philosophy?
(New York Post Nets)

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The key to the Nets´ second-half improvement last season was a quantum leap on defense. Since then they traded away all-time blocks leader Brook Lopez, and added porous defenders D´Angelo Russell and Allen Crabbe. No wonder the emphasis on the first day of training camp at the U.S. Naval Academy was defense,...