The Brooklyn Nets were looking to win back-to-back games for the first time this season, but Jimmy Butler had other plans. Oddly enough, he, along with everyone else except Brook Lopez, got off to a slow start in the first half.
After the first 24 minutes, bad defense and questionable offense were present on both sides. Brooklyn took a 49-46 lead with them into the locker room behind Lopez’s 19 points.
Butler began to heat up in the third, but, contrary to what’s happened all season, the Nets kept it close out of the intermission.