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Nets ready to be back at Barclays Center

The Brooklyn Nets finished the road trip 2-3, bouncing back from a three-game skid mid-trip with a win over the Chicago Bulls on Saturday.

The last five games have not been easy for the Brooklyn Nets. After winning a tough contest against Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers to start the trip, the Nets were unable to pull off a win over the next three games, falling to the Phoenix Suns, Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets.

But Brooklyn was able to salvage a win in their final game of the trip, knocking off the Chicago Bulls 117-111 on Saturday.

While Joe Harris stressed the importance of the win to YES Network after the game, he made sure to point out he and his teammates are ready to head home:

Anytime you can finish up a road trip in this manner, [it’s] just great for moment, confidence. Ya know, it’s nice that we’re gonna be back at home, have a little bit of a homestand. But, ultimately, to finish the road trip with a win is huge.

Dzanan Musa, who tied for a team-high seven rebounds in the win, took to Twitter to let Nets Fans know he’s also ready to play a home game again after being away for so long.

 

Spencer Dinwiddie leads Nets past Bulls in final game of road trip

Spencer Dinwiddie and Joe Harris came up big for the Brooklyn Nets in Saturday’s win over the Chicago Bulls.

After jumping out to a comfortable 30-19 first-quarter lead, the Brooklyn Nets started to slip against the Chicago Bulls, trailing 50-56 at the half. The Bulls still held a four-point lead entering the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough to get past Spencer Dinwiddie and the Nets, who finished their road trip with a 117-111 win in Chicago.

Dinwiddie entered the fourth quarter with only four points to his name, but finished the night with 24 on 5 of 11 shooting, while knocking down 14 of his 15 free-throw attempts. The point guard started in place of the injured Kyrie Irving, who was out due to a right shoulder impingement.

Dinwiddie’s 20 fourth-quarter points are the most he’s ever scored in an individual quarter in his career. He also set the bar for most points scored by a Nets player in any quarter this season.

Joe Harris also exploded offensively, scoring 22 points on 8 of 15 shooting — though he wasn’t at his best from long-range, finishing 2-for-8.

Harris also dished out eight assists without turning the ball over once.

Each of the other three Nets starters finished in double-figures, as well. Taurean Prince had 13 points, Garrett Temple scored 12 and Jarrett Allen had 11. However, Prince and Temple weren’t consistent with their shots, finishing 4-for-13 and 4-for-12 from the floor, respectively.

Theo Pinson provided a lift off the bench with his 10-point performance (4-for-9 shooting).

DeAndre Jordan grabbed seven rebounds, eclipsing the 9,000 career rebounds mark in the process. Allen and Dzanan Musa each grabbed seven rebounds, as well. Jordan also blocked four shots.

Iman Shumpert made his Brooklyn Nets debut on Saturday. He scored five points on 2-for-4 shooting and had three rebounds in 12 minutes of action.

Iman Shumpert: ‘I bring something totally different’ to Nets

Iman Shumpert finally had a chance to tell Brooklyn Nets fans what they can expect from him following his signing.

Kenny Atkinson, Kyrie Irving and Joe Harris all know what Iman Shumpert can provide the Brooklyn Nets.

Atkinson has known Shumpert since the two were part of the New York Knicks organization. The now-Nets head coach was the Shumpert’s guard coach.

Irving and Harris later reaped the benefits of Shumpert’s hard work as he helped the Cleveland Cavaliers win an NBA title.

The veteran guard has been one of the league’s more tenacious defender’s over the past decade. He told reporters in Denver — as did Atkinson — he will make broken plays happen to help create more Brooklyn possessions on the offensive end.

But the first thing Shumpert said he’ll provide the Nets with is energy.

No matter where I go I bring the energy, energy and passion. I think that just from outside looking in at these it, [this is] a great group of guys. A lot of talented guys. Not that I don’t fit in, but at the same time I bring something totally different, where it’s not in anybody’s way. It’s not anything but a gel to bring everybody together.

Above all else, Shumpert is always looking to “play ball the right way.”

Nets drop third consecutive game of road trip

The Brooklyn Nets are now in the middle of their first losing streak of 2019-20 following Thursday’s game in Denver.

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.

Joe Harris: Nets’ ‘compete level was a lot higher’ vs. Jazz

Tuesday’s loss in Phoenix was tough, but the Nets’ loss to the Jazz was an even tougher pill to swallow.

As bad as the blowout loss to the Phoenix Suns was, Tuesday’s 119-114 loss to the Utah Jazz was an even tougher pill for the Nets to swallow. Brooklyn had what looked like a comfortable lead at halftime, but wound up losing in a nail-biter.

As Kenny Atkinson pointed out to reporters in Utah, there are no moral victories from a loss, but the Nets did show signs of growth. In particular, the Net finally attacked their opponent early in the game — something they haven’t done much to start 2019-20.

Though the Nets had an advantage over the Jazz with Utah being on the second game of a back-to-back, Joe Harris felt the first half result was an accurate depiction of Brooklyn’s intensity in the first half, per Tom Dowd of BrooklynNets.com.

The compete level was a lot higher. Against Phoenix that was uncharacteristic of us, not what we want Brooklyn Nets basketball to be about. And tonight we did a much better job just coming in, having effort from the get-go. There was a couple miscues here and there but that happens over the course of the game, but the effort, the compete level was there all night.

Nets bogged down by foul troubles against Jazz

The Nets gave the Utah Jazz far too many chances at the free-throw line, which was part of what cost Brooklyn the game.

The Brooklyn Nets were more efficient from the free-throw line (84%) than the Utah Jazz (77.1%) on Tuesday. But Brooklyn being more effective at the charity stripe only means so much when the opposition has 10 more free-throw attempts in the course of the game.

With the Nets losing by five to the Jazz, those extra free throws were made all the difference, as Utah knocked down 27 free throws to Brooklyn’s 21 in the 119-115 finish.

The Jazz took 35 free throws and were fouled by Brooklyn 29 times, while Utah only fouled the Nets 18 times. Jarrett accounted for six of those fouls and Joe Harris had five. Spencer Dinwiddie had four, as did Kyrie Irving, though two of his came when the Nets needed to foul Utah late.

Needless to say, Kenny Atkinson wasn’t pleased the Jazz had so many chances at the line.

… I would say the other thing that kind of irks me is giving up 35 free throws. So we played hard, we competed, but now we gotta add understand how to play without fouling.

Nets struggle in second half vs. Jazz, now 1-2 on road trip

Kyrie Irving had a rough shooting night for the Brooklyn Nets in the loss to the Utah Jazz.

The Brooklyn Nets performed far better in the first quarter of Tuesday’s game than they have of late. They proceeded to build on their strong start by carrying a 68-53 lead into halftime.

The Utah Jazz proceeded to flip the script and handed Brooklyn it’s second loss of the five-game road trip with a 119-114 finish.

Previously, Kenny Atkinson discussed how the Nets struggle to get stops, especially early in games or when they’re also struggling on offense. The latter was the problem in the second half.

After a rough third quarter, things got worse for the Nets in the fourth quarter — yet they still had a chance at the end. They simply couldn’t get it done offensively.

Kyrie Irving took 30 shots. He only made 10 of them. Twelve of his attempts were from beyond the arc. He only made two of those. Not at all a good shooting night for Brooklyn’s point guard, despite the fact he finished up with 27 points.

Garrett Temple got the start in place of the injured Caris LeVert and finished in double figures (10), as did fellow starters Joe Harris (11) and Taurean Prince (15). Spencer Dinwiddie (21) and DeAndre Jordan (15) also finished in double figures.

Jordan (6-for-8 shooting) and Prince (6-for-9, 3-for-5 from three) were the Nets’ most efficient shooters in the loss.

Jordan also grabbed 17 rebounds while logging two blocks and two steals. Irving and Jarrett Allen each had two blocks, as well.

Another notable stat: Harris had a -22 plus-minus. He and Allen (-14) were the only two Nets with a negative, double-digit plus-minus.

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Don’t expect Kenny Atkinson to change Nets starting lineup yet

The Brooklyn Nets are off to a rocky start, but Kenny Atkinson isn’t going to make a personnel change just yet.

Brooklyn’s starting five had a rough go against the Phoenix Suns — to put it mildly.

Kyrie Irving was the only one in double figures. Even then, he wasn’t at his best, finishing 1-for-6 from three while failing to earn a trip to the free-throw line.

Jarrett Allen hardly played because he was in foul trouble so early.

Joe Harris missed all four of his 3-point attempts.

Taurean Prince went 3-for-5 from the floor (2-for-3 from three), but made mistakes elsewhere throughout the game and played a measly 17 minutes as a result — only five more minutes than Allen.

Caris LeVert was the only Nets starter who didn’t have a -20 plus-minus or worse (-15), but he still didn’t play his best game.

While the loss to Phoenix was next-level for the Nets, they’ve consistently struggled defensively in the first quarter to start the year. Even after acknowledging the issue, Kenny Atkinson isn’t ready to change Brooklyn’s starting lineup.

I’m not ready to go there after one bad game.