The Nets have lost six of seven and fell back into a flat-footed tie with Miami in their bid for the sixth and final guaranteed playoff berth.
How the Nets’ leaky defense has sent their offense into a tailspin and put their playoff hopes in jeopardyOr maybe the former led to the latter. The end result was the same, a desultory 119-106 loss to sorry the Magic on Sunday at Amway Center.
Mikal Bridges poured in 44 points, just one shy of his career-high set against Miami on Feb. 15, but the Nets shot just 40.7 percent as a team, and 8 of 35 from deep as they gave him no help.in their bid for the sixth and final guaranteed playoff berth in the Eastern Conference, ahead by only the head-to-head tiebreaker. They also stumbled two full games behind the fifth-place Knicks.
“Totally different team than we saw in November at our place,” coach Jacque Vaughn had warned. “With the addition of Markelle Fultz, just their numbers overall as a team is pretty impressive.“Wins that they’ve been able to garner, the length they have, the ability to turn people over, the ability to drive the basketball from multiple positions will give us some problems. Great test for us to let [Saturday] night go. Appreciate what we did, but accomplish this goal of getting a win [Sunday].
Brooklyn didn’t appear to have a mental hangover from its huge win over the Heat one night earlier. The Nets’ woes seemed more physical, tipping off just 22 hours after their game in Miami had and wearing down as the night went on. “This is an interesting one. The late night in Miami then to turn around [at] 6 p.m. Very thoughtful in how we’re going to use our rotation. We’ll be smart about using everybody to try to get through this game,” said Vaughn, who played without Royce O’Neale, Ed Sumner, Seth Curry and
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