I think it was an even game all the way up. You look at the stat sheet and it’s pretty much the game. But they hit 17 threes to our 12 and won by six. We made more total field goals than them. The turnover game was pretty much the same. I think that’s about it,” said Durant on the deciding factor in the defeat. The superstar grabbed six boards, dished eight assists, had one steal, and swatted two shots in the losing effort. To me, that was the difference.”ĭurant, who became just the 23rd player in NBA history to score 25,000 career points, ended his milestone game with 37 points on 12-of-21 shooting from the field and 4-of-9 from 3-point range. “That’s the gap for our group is to find that cohesion, that understanding, and be able to execute in those situations. ![]() They look like a team that knew exactly what they were doing,” said Nash after the 126-120 defeat at TD Garden Sunday afternoon. We look like a brand new team that has never played together before as a group. ![]() Out of an inbounds pass by Goran Dragic, Durant caught the ball with his foot on the baseline and Tatum dribbled out the ball to conclude the Nets loss. With 14.6 seconds left on the game clock, Irving drilled a deep 35-foot three off a Durant assist to make it a four-point game (124-120) but Tatum hit the pair of free throws on the other end to bring the lead up to six points with 12.1 left. “I think we started the second half letting him walk into some threes that got him going, and then he took off from there.” You add it all up and when a guy has an exceptional game instead of having 39 and you have a chance, he has 54,” said Steve Nash on Tatum’s performance. I know we put him on the line a little bit too much. When a guy gets hot like that, you can’t give him the freebies. He got five, six walk-in threes in transition, layups. After a Jaylen Brown shot-clock beating three that served as the dagger to put Boston up 121-115 with 39.4 seconds left, there was little to no hope left of escaping with a win. Jayson Tatum (game-high 54 points on 16-of-30 shooting from the field and 8-of-15 shooting from 3-point range) answered with a 17-foot jumper and Marcus Smart followed it up with two points of his own. That was as close as Brooklyn got for the remainder of the game. It was a classic game worthy of a playoff contest, but in the end, the Nets simply couldn’t keep up with the Celtics.Įntering the final two minutes of play, Kyrie Irving connected on a nifty 11-foot jumper to put the Nets within a point with 1:44 left. Moreover, their first round pick, owed to the Rockets, is now technically a lottery pick. More worrisome, the Nets are now tied for the eighth and ninth seeds, barely inside the NBA’s play-in tournament. Irving is now 5-11 in his 16 games as a part-time player. The Nets are now 2-2 with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving playing together. ![]() The win for Boston (39-27) also gives them a 3-2 season series lead. 500 to 32-33 on the season and 19-15 on the road. The Nets were defeated by the Celtics, 126-120, at TD Garden Sunday afternoon. It was a high scoring affair in Boston that didn’t go Brooklyn’s way down the stretch.
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