The Nets tied the score in the fourth quarter, but they forgot how to score.
Or maybe the Knicks’ defense gave them amnesia.
On Saturday, the Nets suffered a 105-93 loss in front of a sold-out crowd of 19,812 at the Garden, a game in which the Nets clearly foresee another late-game collapse, and sadly… I welcomed it with open arms.
The same goes for your competitors.
“We have to counterpunch… talk, loose balls, offensive rebounds. It has nothing to do with talent, it has nothing to do with the ball coming in. It’s something we have to improve on. It’s these little things, we have to double down. That’s the only way we’re going to win,” interim coach Kevin Ollie said. “I talked to them about that. How’s your stamina?” Not just from a wind standpoint, but from a competitive standpoint.It has to be present every minute for us to win, but it wasn’t [Saturday]”
Whatever competitive stamina they had, it ran out early in the fourth quarter.
They tied the score at 80 and didn’t score until 3:40 — they gave up 12 unanswered points and lost the game — and then at 8:03 it was a no-basket drought, 22-4. A player who was nailed down by a run turned the game around. hit.
The Nets let go of the rope once again, forced to admit their coach was right.
“I agree. There has to be something like a line drawn in the sand,” said Cam Johnson. “It’s like one event triggers another and it all builds up negatively, and we’re susceptible to it and, as it often happens, we don’t recover well from it.
“I think we need to connect a little bit more and trust each other a little more. Taking care of the ball, taking care of our offensive possession, taking care of our defensive possession, I think that goes a long way. ”
Shoot during Nets loss. Robert Szabo of the New York Post
The Nets lost 26-45, and their play-in hopes, while still intact, essentially disappeared.
After being physically rough.
“We’re not playing 5-on-0, we’re playing 5-on-5,” O’Ree said. “They’re going to play physical, they’re going to play physical, they’ve got to play through it. That’s what you have to do. These are playoff teams. They want to be in the playoffs. We need to overcome that because we also want to be in the playoffs.
“So how do you fight physicality? Instead of fighting physicality, cutting backdoors, making sharp passes, not turning the ball over, that’s how you fight physicality. Like we saw in the Milwaukee game. We started out as a physical team, and that’s your job. When someone hits you, you don’t just lie down, you hit them back.”
After Dennis Smith Jr. scored 80 points just 16 seconds into the fourth quarter, the Nets missed 11 consecutive shots.
The Knicks scored 12 straight points to break the deadlock, and Thomas finally hit a free throw with 8:04 left to break the drought.
But the Nets couldn’t find the basket until it was 102-84. Donte DiVincenzo scored 31 points after slowing Jalen Brunson.
Nick Claxton said: “They just rehashed it and we didn’t respond very well.” “I think we all just have to look at ourselves in the mirror and find a way. How can we connect more on both sides of the ball?”
“It’s frustrating just to lose out on being in the game the whole time and the whole quarter. Just being able to finish the game the way they did. It just leaves an aftertaste in your mouth.”
