![]() Nets: Seth Curry returned to action while Ben Simmons was out for the fourth straight game with left knee soreness. Hornets public relations officials scrambled to secure as many stats as they could by hand by watching film.Īfter the game, Durant was talking about his team’s solid defense and said, “I wish I had a stat sheet in front of me,” to which a reporter responded, “Yeah, so do we.” Many of the statistics for the game still weren’t available more than an hour after the completion of the game after the league’s stat recording system, Genius Stats, crashed midway through the third quarter at the Spectrum Center and were never restored. “We have to watch the film and grow from it and learn from it.” “It hurts,” Oubre said of losing a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter. He connected on both free throws with 2:39 remaining. They trimmed the lead to two on a corner 3 from Joe Harris, then tied the game when Thomas stole a pass at midcourt and was fouled on a layup attempt. Rozier knocked down 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions, Nick Richards added a three-point play and Rozier made a free throw after Claxton was assessed a technical foul for disputing a call.īut the Nets came storming back behind Durant and Thomas. The Hornets outscored the Nets 17-6 to open the fourth quarter to take an 11-point lead and appeared ready to pull away. “It was a rough first two weeks of the season for me, so for Coach to have trust in me to close the game out and play me a good amount of minutes the last two games, I can’t thank him enough for that,” Thomas said. But the second-year guard has stepped up big the last two games, combining for 38 points, nine assists and seven rebounds in Irving’s absence. ![]() ![]() Thomas had only played 15 minutes in the Nets’ first eight games of the season. ![]()
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