On Tuesday, the Nets held a 15-point lead over the Utah Jazz at halftime. Brooklyn lost the game by five.
The Nets ran into a similar situation on Thursday in Denver. Brooklyn held a 12-point lead at the half, but wound up losing 101-93 to the Nuggets.
Brooklyn’s offense was explosive at the start of the game, but ran out of gas in the second half, especially in the fourth quarter. The Nets scored 32 points between the third and fourth quarters — after they’d scored 35 points in the first quarter alone.
One of the Nets’ major issues down the stretch was their inability to knock down threes. They missed their final 18 attempts of the game from behind the arc.
Dzanan Musa and Taurean Prince were the only two Nets to hit multiple 3-pointers (two apiece). But Musa was the only one who was efficient, going 2-for-3 from three. Prince went 2-for-11, while Kyrie Irving and Garrett Temple each went 1-for-5, Spencer Dinwiddie went 1-for-7 and Joe Harris went 1-for-4 from 3-point territory.
DeAndre Jordan led the Nets with 11 rebounds, while Jarrett Allen had 10 in his double-double performance. Allen tied Irving and Dinwiddie for the team-lead in points (17).
Irving almost had himself a double-double, too. He logged nine assists.