Fighting Nets run out of gas in heartbreaking double overtime loss to Celtics
NY Post
After taking one of the most humiliating beatings in team history, Jordi Fernández challenged his Nets to show more fight.
Brooklyn fought its way through not one but two overtimes, coming up just short 130-126 against the Celtics on Friday night before a sellout crowd of 17,727 at Barclays Center.
The Nets (12-31) have dropped a dozen of their last 14, the worst a 120-66 loss Wednesday to the Knicks. It was the second-largest margin of defeat in franchise history, and their lowest scoring output since a 90-65 loss to Miami on March 12, 2005. To a man, they’d acknowledged the need to redeem themselves.
“Yeah, it’s about how you respond. Obviously, you don’t like to feel embarrassed. It was a tough feeling,” said Fernández. “But we were out there together and the best thing you can do is [Thursday] watch some film, talk to each other, get some work done this morning, do it again and go out there and respond as a group. … Once again, how you respond is how you should be judged.”
The Nets responded. But they didn’t win.
Michael Porter Jr. led the Nets with 30 points and eight rebounds to bounce back from a poor night in the Garden, while rookie Nolan Traore — playing down the stretch instead of Egor Dëmin — added a career-high 21 points, though he’ll rue a missed free throw in the first overtime that let the Celtics force the second. That’s where the Nets lost.
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