Fool me as soon as, disgrace on you. But idiot me twice? The Nets didn’t learn the way that age-old adage ends.
At least not this time.
The Nets snapped a four-game shedding streak with a 116-109 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Halloween night. It was a a lot wanted, get-right win after the Pacers totally embarrassed the Nets in Saturday’s nine-point loss.
“It was very important for us to get a response,” head coach Steve Nash mentioned. “The win was nice. I care much more about our process and I thought the process was great. The spirit was great, we were connected, we played hard. We were able to do the extra things, the little things, and especially at the end. We had tired players at the end. Guys played a lot of minutes and playing a team that flies around — they play with pace, they fly around. They stuck with it. They stuck with the task. They played for each other, rebounded the ball better, did so many things better, so we were proud of the group’s effort.”
And it was a win that was met with a standing ovation from a Barclays Center crowd determined for a top quality efficiency from what has the potential to be a top quality late-season staff if they will put all of it collectively.
The victory — Brooklyn’s second of the season in opposition to 5 early losses — didn’t come with out drama: The Nets ran up a 24-point first-half lead that evaporated by the fourth quarter. It grew to become a two possession recreation down the stretch after the Pacers knocked down a flurry of threes.
In reality, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving every missed essential threes down the stretch, to which the Pacers responded with baskets that stored the sport shut. In the tip, Irving iced the sport with a floater and Durant put it out of attain with a pair of free throws.
Durant completed with 36 factors on 13-of-22 taking pictures from the sector to go along with 9 rebounds and 7 assists. As a part of his evening, he surpassed Vince Carter for nineteenth place on the NBA’s all-time main scoring record. Next up for Durant is Kevin Garnett. Garnett’s spot is in danger with lower than 300 factors of separation from Durant, who’s averaging greater than 32 factors per recreation to begin the season.
“Wins are always incredible. It’s tough to win in this league,” Durant mentioned. “It’s tough to be successful in this league, so it’s easy to take this stuff for granted because we play so many games and we put so much high expectation on ourselves as a team and as individuals, but when you sit back and think about it, it does feel good to get a W. It feels good going home and it feels good going to sleep and going into the next game so you can look forward to tomorrow.”
Indiana shot 0-of-12 from downtown within the first interval, then proceeded to gentle it up from deep for the remainder of the evening. It appeared like extra of the identical from a Pacers staff two nights faraway from tying the Nets’ all-time document for opponent threes made.
Starting heart Nic Claxton had 19 factors, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks.
“I think we started out really the way we started the game,” Claxton mentioned. “We started out from the jump, made them take tough shots and we weathered the storm when they went on their runs. They were making some tough shots. Everything wasn’t easy. There was a lot of contested shots around the rim, as opposed to the last game where they had a lot of open looks.”
Irving completed with 28 factors on 9-of-19 taking pictures from the sector.
A gaggle of followers had been seen courtside sporting shirts that mentioned “Fight Antisemitism” throughout the recreation on Monday evening. The followers sat within the Barclays Center with the shirts two days after Irving was questioned a few tweet that shared a documentary full of antisemitic messages.
Sharpshooter Joe Harris began rather than Ben Simmons (left knee soreness) and completed with seven factors and three steals to go along with some scrappy particular person protection.
“He just has a sore knee. That’s all I know really,” Nash mentioned of Simmons. “Tomorrow, we’ll have to monitor and see how he is but tonight he’s out and we’ll see how the knee is tomorrow and if he’s able to go.”
The Pacers bought 30 from guard Chris Duarte and 22 from wing Buddy Hield however solely shot 11-of-39 from downtown.
And now the Nets are off to the races, shaking the proverbial monkey off their again with a victory in opposition to an opponent they had been purported to beat. They face a troublesome job within the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday within the second recreation of a back-to-back, however the hope is Simmons and possibly even Seth Curry (ankle surgical procedure upkeep) will return to the rotation. Curry additionally missed Monday’s matchup.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com