Barclays
7:30pm EST
YES Network / FS DET
INJURY REPORT
Stauskas - QUESTIONABLE (ankle)
Crabbe - DOUBTFUL (left shin)
Carroll - OUT (knee sprain)
DLO - OUT
The Brooklyn Nets have been addicted to close games lately, with their last five matchups all being decided by three points or less.
After the Nets' most recent loss, which came in overtime to the Toronto Raptors, Spencer Dinwiddie looked into a baseline camera and said "this is exactly what I'm talking about" after he felt he didn't get a call on his last-second drive to the basket.
"We've been looking for the refs to bail us out, but you can't look for the refs to bail you out. We're playing the game, so we've got to go out there and compete. … If we limit a couple of mistakes we easily win [Monday], we easily win the Boston game."
"You can't look for the call in this league," Carroll said. "Refs, they're going to see calls, they're going to miss calls. But at the end of the day, you're just screaming at a ref, and you're hollering at him the whole game; they're going to miss calls. They don't worry about screaming at you or hollering at you, so I feel like we've got to really focus on the game.”
"We can't focus on the ref. When we stop focusing on the ref, maybe we'll get our calls. Let them do their jobs instead of jumping on them the whole time. It'll really help us out in the long run. Let's try an opposite effect and see if it works."
