{"id":51557,"date":"2020-08-21T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nets-season-basically-over-after-game-3-destruction-by-raptors\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T20:16:00","slug":"nets-season-basically-over-after-game-3-destruction-by-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nets-season-basically-over-after-game-3-destruction-by-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nets\u2019 season basically over after Game 3 destruction by Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Nets\u2019 season basically over after Game<\/a> 3 destruction by Raptors<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Brooklyn\u2019s playoff hopes aren\u2019t officially dead yet. But their odds are even longer than Fred VanVleet\u2019s three-quarter court backbreaking buzzerbeater that summed up how this Eastern Conference first-round series<\/a> is going.<\/p>\n

The Nets fell 117-92 to Toronto in Game 3 at The Field House in Orlando, and trail the series 3-0. They didn\u2019t lead for a single second against the defending champion Raptors, and could get knocked out of the postseason on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Only three NBA teams have ever forced a Game 7 after being in a 3-0 hole, and none have ever completed the comeback. These shorthanded Nets aren\u2019t showing any signs of becoming the first.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn was decimated long before arriving at the Orlando restart. But after Joe Harris left the NBA campus to deal with a family emergency, their roster attrition has reached an event horizon there\u2019s no coming back from.<\/p>\n

It showed in falling behind by double-digits right out of the gate, and when they stopped playing on a 52-foot heave by VanVleet (22 points) to beat the halftime buzzer, and in their lack of defensive resistance in the fourth quarter. Game 4 is Sunday, but this had the feel of finality.<\/p>\n

Tyler Johnson replaced Harris in the starting lineup and had a season-high 23 points \u2013 his best in a playoff game \u2013 as Jacque Vaughn went with three guards. But without Harris\u2019 gravity to stretch Toronto\u2019s league-leading defense, this was a mismatch from the start.<\/p>\n

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Garrett Temple tries to get around Raptors\u2019 Pascal Siakam<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity,\u201d Jacque Vaughn had said beforehand. \u201cOverall, the challenge with our group, we\u2019re missing a key cog in Joe not being here, but we\u2019ll provide some support from some guys off the bench and then rely on Caris (LeVert) and Jarrett (Allen) to carry us.\u201d<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t exactly happ<\/a>en. Harris\u2019 absence chopped Brooklyn\u2019s Bubble Big 3 to a Bubble Duo. And while LeVert rose to the challenge with 15 points, six assists, and three steals, Allen was all-too-invisible offensively. He had 17 boards but finished without a single shot, and was scoreless until 6:23 left in the third.<\/p>\n

Toronto had put it away long before that, behind VanVleet, Pascal Siakam (game-high 26 points, eight rebounds, five assists) and Serge Ibaka (20 points, 13 boards off the bench). The Raptors hit 18-of-38 from deep.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know you really can\u2019t (replace Harris). It\u2019s going to have to be a team effort. It sounds cliche, but what Joe was able to bring to us obviously a team they\u2019re going to play us a little differently. That was one of the guys that they couldn\u2019t leave open,\u201d said Garrett Temple. \u201cGuys are going to have to step up, make shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Temple and the previously-hot Timothe-Luwawu-Cabarrot combined to shoot 5-of-30 overall and 3-of-20 from deep.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn let the Raptors hit six of their first nine shots, and four of their first five from behind the arc, to fall behind 16-5 right out of the gate.<\/p>\n

LeVert had to deal with traps and blitzes, and even when he did penetrate he found Toronto sagging and crowding the lane.<\/p>\n

The Nets got good looks early but couldn\u2019t buy a basket, shooting 30.4 percent in the first quarter and just 3-of-13 from deep. They trailed 24-17 after one, their lowest-scoring opening quarter since a Feb. 26 stinker at Washington according to Elias.<\/p>\n

If the Nets weren\u2019t out of it at that point, they were after a three-minute span early in the second. They were within 24-19 after a Rodions Kurucs reverse :26 into the period, but coughed up 11 unanswered points. OG Anunoby pushed Toronto\u2019s lead to 35-19, and Brooklyn never challenged the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

The deficit was still 19 before ten unanswered Toronto points padded the Raptors lead to 110-81 midway through the fourth.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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