
Nets finish brutal Western trip with loss to Jazz as Cam Johnson exits early
NY Post
SALT LAKE CITY — This Western road swing is mercifully over for the Nets.
They’re coming back to Brooklyn battered and bruised.
And thoroughly beaten up.
The Nets got throttled 125-108 by the Jazz before a sellout crowd of 18,206 at Delta Center on Monday night.
And they didn’t just lose the game but some of their pride, outworked, outhustled and outmuscled by a team they know they should’ve defeated.
“We just needed to take more pride defensively,” center Nic Claxton said. “Just keeping those guys in front of us, just straight line drives again are too easy, which is causing us to rotate too much and it’s giving them rebounds, 3s. So I think it’s just a pride thing, honestly.”

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












