Nets Fall in Philadelphia: Brooklyn looks flat in loss to lowly 76ers
With his team coming around the clubhouse turn in its historic first season in Brooklyn, Nets interim coach P.J. Carlesimo may have to go the whip down the stretch run.
Following an inexplicably lackluster effort in Philadelphia on Monday night, the Nets prepare to host New Orleans Tuesday in the finale of a four-games-in-five-nights stretch prior to a much-needed four-day break in advance of a grueling road schedule to close out March.
“When you’re that step slow, there are going to be different things, but it’s always going to be something,” Carlesimo lamented after Brooklyn’s 106-97 defeat in The City of Brotherly Love to a Philadelphia team that had dropped five straight and is holding down the Nets’ old spot at the bottom of the Atlantic Division standings.
“I’m way more concerned with our defense than our offense right now,” Carlesimo admitted as the Nets squandered an opportunity to win their fourth straight and move within 1 1/2 games of first-place New York in the Atlantic. “We weren’t good offensively, but 97 points on the road should be enough to win a game.”