Banker’s Life Fieldhouse
7:00pm EST
YES Network / FS-Indiana
CBS
The Doyle debut game
“We knew we had to get a win real bad,” said Caris LeVert after the Nets rolled to their third-most-lopsided win ever at Barclays Center, in front of 15,589.
“Our mindset from the tipoff was good. I thought that first group really decided to get some stops and brought the energy and brought the defense,” Atkinson said. “Then after that, everybody got on the train, got on board and a lot of guys played well.”
It added up to the Nets’ first victory since beating these same Wizards on Dec. 12. They hadn’t won since, while Washington had taken three of four, coinciding with the return of Wall. But in his first back-to-back since returning from a knee injury, Wall ended his night having played just 16 minutes through the third quarter. By then, the Nets led 88-61, and the lead swelled to 116-76 on Stauskas’ drive with 3:32 left.
“We were competitive. We locked in,” Hollis-Jefferson said. “It comes down to compete level.“One moment can change the outcome. One mistake you can go from down three to down 10. We stayed focused on each moment.”
