Jordi Fernández demanded effort from his Nets after they embarrassed themselves through the primary 4 losses of the season.
He got hustle. He got energy. What he didn’t get was victory.
The Nets erased a double-digit deficit within the closing minutes and had a likelihood to tie before falling 117-112 to the Hawks at Barclays Center on Wednesday night.
Nic Claxton had his best game of the season with 18 points and a dozen rebounds, but missed a pair of late looks. Ultimately, the Nets stayed winless as they fell to 0-5.
Brooklyn trailed 113-103 with 4:12 left after a Nickeil Alexander-Walker 3-pointer before it made a final rally.
Forward Michael Porter Jr. (game-high 32 points) sank a pair of free throws to tug the Nets to inside 115-112 with 1:28 remaining. The Nets had a final likelihood, but couldn’t money in on it.
Cam Thomas (19 points, 6 of 20) drove and passed to Claxton within the paint. But the middle — who had his first double-double of the season after struggling mightily through the primary 4 games — missed a point-blank look from just 3 feet out with 29.2 seconds left.
Claxton rebounded his own miss, but couldn’t convert the putback. Dyson Daniels snatched the rebound for Atlanta, and ended the comeback bid.
After coming out of the gate by scoring the sport’s first dozen points, Brooklyn saw that momentum flip the sport just as quickly.
The Nets coughed up an prolonged 39-15 run to show a 12-point lead right into a 12-point deficit.
Thomas’ free throw put Brooklyn up 12-0 with 9:26 left in the primary and sent the Hawks right into a timeout. But that momentum wouldn’t last.
Brooklyn gave up an prolonged run, and by the point ex-Knick Kristaps Porzingis had a tip dunk, the Hawks had flown out to a 39-27 edge.
The Nets’ deficit swelled to 58-41 on Porzingis’ 3-pointer with 3:24 left in the primary half. They tried to rally within the second, but to no avail.
Brooklyn got here out of intermission and scored the primary nine unanswered points. With Egor Dëmin struggling to get by defenders or mount any offense because the backup point guard, Fernández turned to forward Terance Mann to run the attack.
Porter’s running pull-up 3-pointer got the Nets inside 70-64 just three minutes into the third quarter. But that’s as close as they got the remaining of the way in which.
With Trae Young out of the sport and facing little shooting on the opposite side, the Nets tried a 2-3 zone. By the standards of their historically bad defense, they did manage to get a couple of stops — but they couldn’t string enough of a run together to ever challenge Atlanta.
The Nets didn’t even must face Young after the four-time All-Star was forced out of the sport in the primary quarter with a sprained right knee.
Young — who entered Wednesday averaging 20.8 points and 9.5 assists — finished with six points in only seven minutes of motion against Brooklyn.
The star point guard had been standing under the basket on an inbounds play when Claxton pushed Atlanta’s Mouhamed Gueye within the chest. Gueye fell backwards into the side of Young’s leg, and the latter went down clutching his knee.
Young checked out with 1:52 left in the primary and didn’t return.
Jordi Fernández demanded effort from his Nets after they embarrassed themselves through the primary 4 losses of the season.
He got hustle. He got energy. What he didn’t get was victory.
The Nets erased a double-digit deficit within the closing minutes and had a likelihood to tie before falling 117-112 to the Hawks at Barclays Center on Wednesday night.
Nic Claxton had his best game of the season with 18 points and a dozen rebounds, but missed a pair of late looks. Ultimately, the Nets stayed winless as they fell to 0-5.
Brooklyn trailed 113-103 with 4:12 left after a Nickeil Alexander-Walker 3-pointer before it made a final rally.
Forward Michael Porter Jr. (game-high 32 points) sank a pair of free throws to tug the Nets to inside 115-112 with 1:28 remaining. The Nets had a final likelihood, but couldn’t money in on it.
Cam Thomas (19 points, 6 of 20) drove and passed to Claxton within the paint. But the middle — who had his first double-double of the season after struggling mightily through the primary 4 games — missed a point-blank look from just 3 feet out with 29.2 seconds left.
Claxton rebounded his own miss, but couldn’t convert the putback. Dyson Daniels snatched the rebound for Atlanta, and ended the comeback bid.
After coming out of the gate by scoring the sport’s first dozen points, Brooklyn saw that momentum flip the sport just as quickly.
The Nets coughed up an prolonged 39-15 run to show a 12-point lead right into a 12-point deficit.
Thomas’ free throw put Brooklyn up 12-0 with 9:26 left in the primary and sent the Hawks right into a timeout. But that momentum wouldn’t last.
Brooklyn gave up an prolonged run, and by the point ex-Knick Kristaps Porzingis had a tip dunk, the Hawks had flown out to a 39-27 edge.
The Nets’ deficit swelled to 58-41 on Porzingis’ 3-pointer with 3:24 left in the primary half. They tried to rally within the second, but to no avail.
Brooklyn got here out of intermission and scored the primary nine unanswered points. With Egor Dëmin struggling to get by defenders or mount any offense because the backup point guard, Fernández turned to forward Terance Mann to run the attack.
Porter’s running pull-up 3-pointer got the Nets inside 70-64 just three minutes into the third quarter. But that’s as close as they got the remaining of the way in which.
With Trae Young out of the sport and facing little shooting on the opposite side, the Nets tried a 2-3 zone. By the standards of their historically bad defense, they did manage to get a couple of stops — but they couldn’t string enough of a run together to ever challenge Atlanta.
The Nets didn’t even must face Young after the four-time All-Star was forced out of the sport in the primary quarter with a sprained right knee.
Young — who entered Wednesday averaging 20.8 points and 9.5 assists — finished with six points in only seven minutes of motion against Brooklyn.
The star point guard had been standing under the basket on an inbounds play when Claxton pushed Atlanta’s Mouhamed Gueye within the chest. Gueye fell backwards into the side of Young’s leg, and the latter went down clutching his knee.
Young checked out with 1:52 left in the primary and didn’t return.
