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Nets’ weakness rears its head again in opening loss to Pistons

NY Post | October 18, 2018

Related Topics: Blake Griffin, Treveon Graham, Achilles' heel, DeMarre Carroll, Caris LeVert, Spencer Dinwiddie, Allen Crabbe, Weakness, Ish Smith, Jarrett Allen

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Blake Griffin, who scored 26 points, makes a move on Treveon Graham during the Nets' 103-100 opening-night loss to the Pistons on Wednesday night.

DETROIT — New season. Same Achilles’ heel.

The shorthanded Nets suffered a season-opening 103-100 loss to the Pistons, and the same flaws that cost them last year did so once more.

They couldn’t rebound. They couldn’t close a tough game. And they lost a nail-biter. Again.
Granted, the injury-riddled Nets played without starters Allen Crabbe, DeMarre Carroll and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. But it was their inability to keep Andre Drummond off the glass that did them in.

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