Flailing Nets get gutted in Indiana
Surrender 70 points in paint en route to blowout loss
With their play-in tournament hopes all but dashed and coming off Sunday’s loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, the Brooklyn Nets just didn’t look “prepared” enough to open a home-and-home set with the Indiana Pacers Monday night.
Brooklyn yielded a whopping 43 first-quarter points, gave up 70 in the paint and trailed by as many as 36 before finally absorbing a painful 133-111 defeat to the Pacers in front of 16,522 fans at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
“It’s letting (the Pacers) getting to the rim and creating paint touches and then kicking it out and then we’re scrambling and trying to get back,” Nets interim coach Kevin Ollie lamented.