It was an ideal night time for the Nets, who rolled to a rout with each obtainable rookie on the ground to take pleasure in a laugher.
Brooklyn dominated Milwaukee, 127-82, Sunday night time in a whole effort earlier than 16,439 at Barclays Center.
The win tied their largest victory in franchise historical past, matching a 45-point rout of Washington on Jan. 9, 1993.
Jordi Fernandez wasn’t amongst them, the Nets head coach was out sick with the flu.
But an effort like this from his younger group possible buoyed his spirits, main by as a lot as 45 and having 4 of their report 5 first-round picks on the ground late after they held the Bucks scoreless for six straight minutes.
All 5 Brooklyn starters cracked double-figures for the second time this season.
They have been led by Egor Dëmin, after the lottery decide had been chastised by Fernandez on Friday in Dallas for sloppy, ill-advised errors.
The Russian teen bounced again with 17 factors on 6-of-7 capturing.
He even had three robust drives to the rim, and performed feisty protection with two steals, a block and ending a plus-20.
With assistant Steve Hetzel stepping in for Fernandez, the Nets improved to 7-18 and have now gained 4 out of their final six.
Of price noting to the pro-tank crowd, Brooklyn is simply 1-14 in opposition to profitable groups however now 6-4 in opposition to shedding ones.
That’s related, as a result of with so many groups tanking this season, they’ll face loads of sorry ones the remainder of the best way.
The Nets stayed sixth within the lottery standings, a sport forward of victorious Charlotte.
Noah Clowney had 16 factors and Brooklyn shot 52.9 p.c, whereas smothering the Giannis Antetokounmpo-less Bucks to simply 39.2.
Brooklyn was up simply 19-18 after Myles Turner’s free throw with 5:19 left within the first.
That’s after they put collectively an prolonged 26-9 run that spanned the primary and second quarters, and blew the sport open.
By the time Danny Wolf obtained inside for a layup eight minutes later, the rookie had padded Brooklyn’s cushion to 45-27 with 9:15 left within the first half.
They simply constructed on that within the second.
Milwaukee had dominated the second half in opposition to Boston on Thursday, however obtained shredded by the Nets.
The Bucks fell to 2-8 with out Antetokounmpo, who harm his calf in a win over the Pistons on Dec. 3.
