Then this guard with the potential to help the Nets' desperate perimeter game may also make a small forward one day.

"The guys inside help my perimeter game," said Davis.

His perimeter game opens things up inside for the 7-foot Reeves, and vice versa.

"They tried to take away the perimeter game and make us take it inside," Johnson said.

A group that wanted to employ more of a perimeter game but finally followed its coach and found merit in the middle.

But what the Nets seem to need most is a perimeter game.

We're going to face teams who try to take our perimeter game away by being physical and strong.

"It's going to be more of a perimeter game," he said.

At the same time, the St. John's perimeter game was falling short.

"I think their inside game versus our perimeter game really might be a key."