Now, the Nets return home four lengths back of Atlanta with 14 regular-season contests remaining, making their bid for a sixth consecutive postseason appearance even more difficult.
Brooklyn suffered another set of back-to-back losses over the weekend, finishing with Sunday night’s 122-115 overtime defeat to San Antonio at Austin’s Moody Center.
The neutral site contest counted as a Nets home game, but Brooklyn squandered a pair of double-digit leads, including one in the fourth quarter, before watching Spurs center Victor Wembanyama take over during the extra session.
The 7-foot-4 rookie had a pair of big buckets and two blocked shots to finish with 33 points, 16 rebounds and a whopping seven swats.
“They made some clutch shots,” Brooklyn interim coach Kevin Ollie said. “They made the right plays when you just kind of (need) to make the right plays. They did an unbelievable job.”
The Nets, who are in a stretch of playing 10 of 11 games away from home as March Madness descends on Barclays Center, dropped three straight to close out their trip and have played six sets of back-to-back contests over the past two months, accumulating a 3-9 mark in those games.
“They’re disappointed, but those guys are not making excuses,” Ollie insisted, though his chances of taking the reins on a full-time basis are doubtlessly being affected by his team’s woes.
The Nets are 5-9 since Ollie took the helm, and their chances of pulling out a spot in a potential single-elimination game or two is dwindling.
“No back-to-back and back-to-back, no excuses,” he added. “They are disappointed. They want to win, and they gave it all they had out there.”
Cam Thomas scored 31 points, Dennis Schroder added 19 and Nic Claxton finished with 11 points and 14 rebounds for the Nets, who will embark on a…
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