Nets drop Paris Game matchup vs. Cavs 111-102

Nets drop Paris Game matchup vs. Cavs 111-102

>>> BACK HERE IN OUR YES NETWORK STUDIO ON THE HONDA POST GAME SHOW. THE NETS LOSE 111-WANTED TO IN PARIS, FRANCE TO THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS. THEY WENT DOWN 54-34 AT THE HAVE AND HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SEEN AT THIS SEASON? THEY TAKE THEMSELVES A HUGE HOLE EARLY ON

AND CAN TAKE OUT OF IT. >> THE GAME STARTED WITH DONOVAN MITCHELL AND ENDED WITH DONOVAN MITCHELL. WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE THE NETS CAN MAKE A RUN WITHIN SEVEN DONOVAN MITCHELL HAD AN ANSWER EVERY TIME. HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH THE 3 AND LATE IN THE GAME HE SEEMED TO MAKE

EVERY BIG BASKET. CARIS LEVERT HAD BIG MOMENTS AS WELL BUT FOR THE BROOKLYN NETS THEY DUG A HOLE WAY TOO DEEP. YES THEY FOUGHT, GOOD TO SEE THEM FIGHT IN THE SECOND HALF. YOU DO IT WITH DORIAN FINNEY-SMITH WASN’T FEELING WELL. SPENCER DINWIDDIE NOT FEELING WELL. MIKAL BRIDGES FINALLY DO SOMETHING LATE.

>> DAY’RON SHARPE ALSO INJURED AND WASN’T WITH THE TEAM SO THAT NETS WERE DOWN SOME PLAYERS IN THIS ONE BUT THEY WERE DOWN BY 20 AT THE BREAK AS FRANK SAID THEY FOUGHT BACK TO HOW MANY TIMES. THERE IS NO COLUMN IN THE STANDINGS FOR FIGHTING BACK. THERE’S WINS AND LOSSES.

>> 100 PERCENT RIGHT AND WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE. LOOK WITH THE SCHEDULE IS RIGHT NOW. THEY GO FROM PLAYING PORTLAND ON A SUNDAY IN BROOKLYN AND PARIS. THEY COME HOME AND PLAY A GOOD MIAMI TEAM ON MONDAY AND THEN ON THE WEST COAST. I FEEL LIKE THE NETS HAVE REACHED

A CRITICAL POINT IN THEIR SEASON. WE ARE NOT AT THE HALFWAY POINT BUT, I MEAN, IN TERMS OF BEING A TOP 16. THEY ARE MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THEMSELVES. CAN THEY STAY IN THAT PLATE AND TOURNAMENT RACE? OBVIOUSLY THEY CAN BUT IN TERMS OF BEING A TOP 16 WHICH THEY

WERE LAST YEAR — THEY WERE A TOP SIX SEED LAST YEAR AND THEY WENT 18 HIGH TO MAKE OVER ONE STRETCH PICK I DON’T THINK THAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN ANYTIME SOON. THEY WANT TO — THEY’VE DUG A HOLE IN THIS GAME AND DIGGING THEMSELVES A HOLE IN THE STANDINGS.

>> THEY ARE 16-22 NOW. THEY ARE STILL PERCENTAGE POINTS AHEAD OF THE ATLANTA HAWK’S. THE HAWKS ARE 11th AND ATLANTA HAS INDIANA TOMORROW SO YOU HELP THE NETS HOPE THE NETS STAY IN THAT POSITION WITH THE PACERS PLAY IN THE HAWKS BUT THE HAWKS HAVE BEEN PLAYING WELL AS OF LATE,

FRANK. THEY ARE TEETER TOTTERING RIGHT NOW OUT OF THAT PLAY IN. >> YOU WONDER BECAUSE JACQUE VAUGHN MADE THE MOVE TO TAKE CAM THOMAS OUT OF THE STARTING LINEUP. HE WAS THEIR ONLY OPTION FOR A WHILE. THEY BROUGHT HIM IN THE FIRST QUARTER AND THEY ONLY SCORED SIX POINTS. HE SCORED TEN

AND EARLY IN THE THIRD QUARTER — WE HEARD TIM CAPSTRAW YOU GOTTA GO BACK TO LONNIE WALKER OR CAM THOMAS. JACQUE VAUGHN WITH UNDER NINE MINUTES AGO PUT WATFORD IN THE GAME ALONG WITH CAM THOMAS. HE NEEDED SOME ENERGY NUMBER ONE BUT YOU NEED TO SCORING AND CAM THOMAS

BECAUSE HE WAS ABLE TO GO BACK AND FOURTH HE KEPT THE NETS IN AND THEY HAD A CHANCE. THEY DID CUT IT TO SEVEN AND WE HAD FIREWORKS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER WITH THE WHOLE SITUATION OF NIC CLAXTON AND TRISTAN THOMPSON. TRISTAN THOMPSON EJECTED FROM THE GAME IN PARIS WITH NBA

COMMISSIONER ADAM SILVER IN ATTENDANCE ALSO BUT HOW ABOUT THE FREE THROWS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER? THE REFEREES, I MEAN, THIS IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE YOU CALL ALL THOSE TOUCH FILES AND YOU ARE SENDING EVERYONE TO THE FREE-THROW LINE. THE CAVALIERS SPENT THE ENTIRE GAME AT THE FREE-THROW LINE. THERE WAS A

COMBINED 28 FREE THROWS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER ALONE. I DON’T NEED THE TORONTO RAPTORS COACH OR LEBRON JAMES TO TELL ME WHAT A DISASTER SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS. YOU ARE PUTTING THIS GAME ON A STAGE IN PARIS WHERE THE ON OTHER PICS ARE GOING TO BE. NO ONE WANTS TO SEE 28 FREE

THROWS. >> NO ONE ALSO WANTS TO SEE 53 FOULS AND TWO FRANCS.THEY ARE

Despite a valiant second-half effort by Brooklyn, the Nets fall to the Cavs in Paris thanks to a 45-point effort by Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell. Subscribe for daily sports videos!

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