After going through two-a-days each of the first two days of practice, the Nets had their first day with just one practice on Thursday. Here’s a recap of what happened:

— The Nets are going to treat tomorrow like a game day. A shootaround in the morning, followed by video work and the team then running a full-blown scrimmage tomorrow night.

With over a week still to go until their first game of training camp, Nets coach Avery Johnson said that he felt this was the right time to break things up and have a scrimmage to see where things are at this point in camp.

— While Andray Blatche made it back onto the practice floor today after sitting out with back spasms yesterday, Tyshawn Taylor again was hindered by his strained right quad. Taylor said he hopes to be back on the floor by Sunday. I’ll have a longer post about him this afternoon.

Also on the sidelines was Josh Childress, who sat out the end of Thursday’s practice with a sore left Achilles. Johnson said that Childress was held out as a precaution, based upon the advice of the team’s athletic trainer Tim Walsh. He also downplayed the significance of the injury, and Childress didn’t seem concerned about it, either.

— Brook Lopez looked strong attacking the glass in the scrimmage, actually getting three straight offensive rebounds on one possession before finally finishing off the rim. It was an encouraging sign to see from Lopez, who has had his rebounding numbers questioned for over a year now.

— There also was a great deal of discussion following practice on the new flopping rules the NBA is attempting to implement. Pretty much everyone agreed that it’s something that the league should try to clamp down on, though there also was near universal agreement about the fact that trying to administer punishment for players who are actually flopping, as opposed to guys just taking a charge, could prove difficult.

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