If you thought the Brooklyn Nets were out of ways to stumble at the finish line, you were wrong. It’s a reasonable mistake given their season thus far, but a mistake all the same.
Tonight’s pebble which the Nets tripped over just a few feet from the red tape was the charity stripe, a place Brooklyn’s struggled at of late, but never in a game’s waning seconds like they did tonight. With game-tying free throws being the game-tying field goals of basketball, Tyler Bass might want to commiserate with the Mikal Bridges tonight.
But contrary to popular, or just our simple-minded belief, games aren’t lost on one play.