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This time, the Net took a far more direct route to a loss.
Continuing their first legitimate road trip of the season, Brooklyn sure looked like weary travelers tonight in Dallas. They also played this one as the second half of a back-to-back, and that likely didn’t help either.
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In that prior game, the Nets let a contest they had complete command over slip away in its final moments. Rookie Mikel Brown Jr. kept his team in the driver’s seat for as long as he could, dropping 13 points in the fourth quarter.
Held out for back injury management, the Nets were without him tonight, and any sense of control over whatsoever. It was in a lot of ways the worst loss of the season and that’s saying something. Br00klyn is now 2-8.
Danny Wolf got the start once again for Egor Dëmin, who’s also still out with a bone bruise in his right leg. But even with a seven-footer technically in their backcourt, Dallas looked like the bigger team early on. In the game’s first few minutes, the Nets missed an abundance of attempts around the rim and even saw three of their shots get rejected. The Mavs nearly doubled Brooklyn up on the glass as well, out-rebounding them in the first 13-7. However, they did triple them in paint scoring, adding 18 points inside to Brooklyn’s six.
Those statistical discrepancies would only swell as the game went on. By the end of it, the Nets were out-rebounded 46-30 and lost in the paint 64-40. The score was ugly too, but I’ll save that score for later.
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Keon Ellis also returned to the rotation in the first after not logging any minutes yesterday vs Atlanta. Still expected to be a spark plug kind of player for the Nets this year, Ellis’ reappearance didn’t give the Nets much juice, but nobody else outside of Michael Porter Jr. could either.
Brooklyn began the game 4-of-14 from the field. Kyrie Irving alone had the same amount of field goals as them through the 3:21 mark of the first, adding nine points on 4-of-7 shooting in the opening period. But after Porter Jr. got free in transition for a few triples, everything else started to fall for him. He scored 11 points in the period’s final…
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