Basketball: A last second lay up from Steph Curry has sunken the Thunder in their first game of the in season tournament.
But if Sunday was a measuring stick — the second night of a back-to-back, minus three starters against the league’s best team — there were positives to be taken.The Nets ran out of gas late in a 124-114 loss to Boston before a sellout crowd of 17,983 at Barclays Centre, as usual with a healthy dose of Celtic green on hand.
“I’m excited about seeing if we can continue conceptual basketball, how we want to play without being there,” coach Jacque Vaughn had said. “The other night we shot 45 3s, and a big part of that was Ben’s ability to, after makes and misses, push tempo for us. So could our other guards do that as well will be a challenge for us.
The Nets clawed ahead, with forward Dorian Finney-Smith — starting a fifth straight game at centre for injured starter Nic Claxton — hitting a 3-pointer off a Spencer Dinwiddie feed.A 9-0 Celtics blitz over the next two minutes left the Nets in a five-point hole, capped by a floater by Jayson Tatum .
“The Ben piece is just injury maintenance for us,” Vaughn said. “Overall, just assessing where we are this time of the season, with the back-to-back — not saying this will continue — but the maintenance is a part of his progression right now for this part of the season.” “I’m feeling good,” Banchero said. “I’ve put in a lot of work. It was a long summer. I can’t be more happy than I am to be back.
“I was trying to be aggressive, whether I was making the right read, getting the assist or scoring the ball,” Maxey said.
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