For us, our game plan is dedicated to and trying to give what we have.”īridges, the player the Nets coveted in the Kevin Durant trade, justified their faith in him, shooting 13-of-22 for the game, including 4-of-6 from three as well as 8-of-9 from the stripe. “I haven’t addressed where we are in the standings with our guys, what’s a week from now, I really don’t want them even looking that far ahead. That’s the goal night and then we’ll handle whatever happens next. “The goal is every single night we’re trying to win the basketball game. “I try to keep it real simple with our guys and not complicate it,” Jacque Vaughn said. In fact, in the second half, they held Boston to 41 points. From that point, they coasted, keeping the Celtics at bay. DFS delivered what turned out to be the dagger, a three from the top of the key with 2:23 left. Over and over, Bridges, Johnson, Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith kept pushing and by the fourth, the Nets went up by double digits and with 6:54 left. Boston players and their fans seemed to believe that eventually, the Celtics would come alive. By 6:27 in the third, the Nets had tied the game, 70 all, on a Johnson 27-footer. “There was a point in the second quarter when we looked at each other and it was like ‘we’re not going out this way,” said Cam Johnson who was celebrating his 27th birthday Friday. At that point, Nets team pride took over and by the end of the quarter, the Nets had gotten the lead down to nine, 64-55. Then, in the second, things got even uglier and with 7:23 in the quarter, the Celtics climbed all the way up to a 28-point lead after a Jaylen Brown basket. It was the thirteenth time in 17 quarters since the All-Star break that Brooklyn had given up 30 or more points. It looked like another Nets defensive disaster as the Nets gave up 37 points in the first quarter, going down 22. But our defense, we got stops and stayed together possession-by-possession. “I think we kind or realized over a couple of games that offense wasn’t really our problem,” Bridges added. We were down big, but we’re just gonna fight. “We ain’t gonna stop fighting no matter what the score is. We got stops, and that was the biggest thing,” Bridges said in his postgame interview. It was the second highest-scoring game of his career after setting a new career-high with 45 points in a win over the Miami Heat in his third game as a Net. How big was the turnaround? After the Nets went down 51-23, they outscored the Celtics, 92-54, a 38-point push propelled by Mikal Bridges who finished with 38 points, 10 boards and four assists. Not only was it the first signature win of the new-look Nets, it broke a 10-game losing streak to Boston including last season’s four-game sweep in the first round of the NBA playoffs. It was also the most satisfying win of the season. The comeback was also the biggest comeback in the NBA this season and the worst comeback loss by a Boston opponent since the Clippers also rallied from 28 down to beat Boston four years ago. Down 28 in the second, the Brooklyn Nets tied a franchise record with a huge comeback, beating the Boston Celtics, 115-105, at TD Garden, leaving Beantown fans in a daze and breaking the Nets four-game losing streak.
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