Brooklyn Bitterly Cold: Nets’ December to Forget Not Over Yet
Nets coach Avery Johnson stopped shy of tagging his struggling unit with the “soft” tag Doc Rivers dropped on the Celtics last month following a disappointing home loss to Brooklyn.
But the raspy-voiced “Little General” didn’t mince words when assessing his team’s resolve during a brutal 3-9 December in which Brooklyn has gone from potential Eastern Conference contender to slowly sinking ship.
“We kind of dropped our heads a little bit,” Johnson admitted after the Nets’ humbling 93-76 Christmas Day loss to Boston before a disappointed sellout crowd of 17,732 at the Barclays Center, not to mention a national television audience via ESPN. “And that’s something that I’ll visit with my team about. If something goes wrong, that’s when you really have to get tougher. And hopefully we’ll do that.”