Nobody’s Perfect: Nets’ season-high win streak snapped in Atlanta
The season-high seven-game winning streak and perfect start to 2013 the Nets had built came burning down in Atlanta on Wednesday night.
Brooklyn interim coach P.J. Carlesimo, who has guided the resurgent Nets to a 9-2 mark since taking over for Avery Johnson in late December, cited fatigue, as well as the Hawks’ urgency to bounce back from a humiliating loss, as the main factors in his team’s first poor performance of the new year.
“We’re flat-out exhausted,” Carlesimo admitted, moments after the Nets trailed from the start and never seriously challenged in a 109-95 loss before 15,029 fans at Philips Arena. “They ran it down our throats the entire game.”