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Nic Claxton reacts during the Nets\u2019 Nov. 23 loss to the Raptors. AP<\/p>\nThe Nets proved they could trade buckets with the Raptors. <\/p>\n
But they also showed they couldn\u2019t get a stop when they needed.<\/p>\n
After forcing six straight ties, Brooklyn never got over the hump. <\/p>\n
And they finally broke, coughing up 10 unanswered points in the waning moments of a 119-109 loss before a crowd of 18,038 at Scotiabank Arena.<\/p>\n
Same teams. <\/p>\n
Same score.<\/p>\n
Nic Claxton reacts during the Nets\u2019 Nov. 23 loss to the Raptors. AP<\/p>\n
After the Nets had lost by an identical scoreline to the Raptors at Barclays Center back on Nov. 11, this time they actually performed much better on the road. <\/p>\n
But not quite good enough, showing they could compete but not win.<\/p>\n
With the score knotted at 104-all \u2014 after six straight ties \u2014 with under four minutes left, Brooklyn conceded a 10-0 run that decided it.<\/p>\n
But from the perspective of Jordi Fernandez, his Nets squandered it by coming out flat from the start.<\/p>\n
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They allowed the first 12 points of the game, the first five points of the second half, and had to waste too much energy chasing the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started with our intentions from the beginning, right? We were not ready to play. If you\u2019re picking and choosing, then basketball gods go \u2018everything gets in the right place.\u2019\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of our starting unit started 12-0 in the first quarter and 5-0 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets proved they could trade buckets with the Raptors. But they also showed they couldn\u2019t get a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,21,9,24,63,319,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-49839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}