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NBA Playoffs – Brooklyn Nets Shouldn’t Focus on Masai Ujiri
Counting on your fans to do the job for you is always a bad premise in the playoffs, and putting too much emphasis on the reaction Masai Ujiri will create in the arena after his f@#$ Brooklyn moments from last weekend is the wrong way for the Brooklyn Nets to be preparing themselves for game 3 against the Toronto Raptors.
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Raptors Over Nets – A Change of Pace
So much praise coming to the Brooklyn Nets after the opening game for their defense, but the Toronto Raptors showed that maybe it was a bit too soon for that, making it an even 1-1 in the series after a huge fourth quarter from the struggling DeMar DeRozan, leading his team in front of a frantic crowd to a 100-95 win.
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10 Oldest Players in the 2014 NBA Playoffs
Older teams are usually more successful when it comes to winning NBA titles, so there’s no surprise quite a few teams in the NBA playoffs have two or more veterans among the top 10 oldest players in the postseason, with the Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls and the San Antonio Spurs each represented by two players on this list.
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Brooklyn Nets – Experience, Defense & Intelligence on Display
Despite the incredible atmosphere and support, the Toronto Raptors couldn’t get enough minutes of good basketball, while the Brooklyn Nets kept their composure throughout the whole ordeal, getting most of their offense from Deron Williams and Joe Johnson who played to their strengths and made the most of the defensive mismatches in a 94-87 to claim a game 1 win and steal home court advantage.
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Brooklyn Nets: Cracking The Two-Team Theory
With every game and win, it gets more convincing – the Brooklyn Nets are for real, and their third win this season over the Miami Heat makes them a real threat to the previous two-horse race concept in the Eastern conference, finding the right kind of formula, led by Paul Pierce who keeps on shining when he sees LeBron James in front of him, and getting plenty of help from Shaun Livingston and Mirza Teletovic.
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Brooklyn Nets – Veterans Barely Overcome Youth
The Brooklyn Nets continue to swing from awful performances to impressive wins, this time providing the latter against the Toronto Raptors in a game with a lot of playoff and divisional standings implications.
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Brooklyn Nets – Beating the Best, Losing to the Worst
The Brooklyn Nets are the most impossible team to read this season, capable of beating the best teams in the West before losing to the worst teams in the East. Paul Pierce was awful once again upon his visit to his former home arena, while Rajon Rondo, in a mistake filled night, pulled the Boston Celtics wagon forward in a rare moment of actually being proud of the work that’s done there this season.
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Brooklyn Nets – The Better Side of New York
One night the Chicago Bulls play almost perfect basketball on both ends of the floor, and the other look like a complete mess, with plenty of credit going to the Brooklyn Nets and especially Deron Williams and Joe Johnson.
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Brooklyn Nets – Like a Completely Different Team
After losing by 44 points, not a lot expected this kind of dominance from the Brooklyn Nets, as they soared against the Denver Nuggets with a 112-89 win, showing that being old only means they know which games to turn it up for.
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Nets Over Lakers – Jason Collins More Important Than Win
There were only 11 minutes of Jason Collins on the floor for the Brooklyn Nets in their 108-102 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, but that period of time, which is less than one NBA quarter, were a lot more important and frankly more intriguing than the entire game.