{"id":58094,"date":"2025-12-02T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:53:10","slug":"nets-win-battle-of-nba-tankers-against-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58094\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets win battle of NBA tankers against Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was another battle of two of the top NBA tankers.<\/p>\n

The Nets and Hornets met to open the NBA season in October, and the Nets looked the part of one of the league\u2019s worst teams this year in a 19-point loss.<\/p>\n

This time around, it was a competitive battle until the end, when the Nets pulled away for a 116-103 win that saw 11 lead changes at Barclays Center on Monday to end their four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

After a third quarter powered by rookies Drake Powell and Ben Saraf outside of Michael Porter Jr.\u2019s season-best 3-point shooting efforts, the Nets held their largest lead of the game (seven points) at the time and were tasked with holding on to it \u2014 something they have had ongoing difficulty with.<\/p>\n

\"BrooklynDay\u2019Ron Sharpe dunks the ball during the Nets\u2019 Dec. 1 game against the Hornets. Robert Sabo for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Within four minutes, the Hornets cut it down to three points. <\/p>\n

However, the Nets went on a run and the mood changed in the arena when a Porter 3-pointer was followed by a dunk from Noah Clowney to take a game-high 10-point lead with under five minutes to play.<\/p>\n

And it didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

Danny Wolf, who didn\u2019t score any of his 10 points until the fourth quarter, went on to sink a 3-pointer and complete a 3-point dunk play to extend the Nets lead to 114-100 with nearly two minutes to play. <\/p>\n

They never lost it from there in one of the best team efforts this season for the Nets.<\/p>\n

Porter led the Nets with 35 points, shooting 7-of-11 from deep. <\/p>\n

\"BrooklynZiaire Williams celebrates after hitting a 3-pointer during the Nets\u2019 Dec. 1 win. Robert Sabo for the NY Post<\/p>\n

Claxton had his fifth double-double of the season with 13 points and 11 rebounds, while Clowney added 18.<\/p>\n

Despite Charlotte beating the Nets bench in points, Brooklyn\u2019s reserves came out on top. <\/p>\n

Powell impressed off the bench with 10 points along with four assists and three steals, and Saraf added seven points, including a key 3-pointer in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

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The game started messy with an opening 3-pointer by Kon Knueppel, with the Nets seeming unsure who was going to guard him. Yet, it proceeded to be a back-and-forth fight.<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s sloppiness benefitted the Nets, totaling 11 turnovers in the first half to give away 17 points.<\/p>\n

Porter getting hot didn\u2019t hurt either. <\/p>\n

He had 17 first-half points and was keeping the Nets competitive in his return after he was sidelined for two games with lower-back tightness.<\/p>\n

One of Porter\u2019s outside shots put the Nets within one point of Charlotte and on the following possession, he grabbed a steal and found Egor D\u00ebmin for a dunk to take a 55-54 lead \u2014 the first of the game for the Nets\u2014 but it was short-lived. <\/p>\n

A Knueppel deep shot spoiled it. However, as time ran out, Clowney had a layup to enter the half tied 59-59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was another battle of two of the top NBA tankers. The Nets and Hornets met to open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,6425,21,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-58094","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-charlotte-hornets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58094","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=58094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}