Nets Continue Beginning of Nightmare Season

The Brooklyn Nets were embarrassed at the Barclay's Center bright and early on Christmas morning, losing to the Chicago Bulls 95-78.

The lack of effort from the Brooklyn Nets has been on display all season and once again showed up in this game. The Nets are currently 9-19 and playing some of the worst basketball in the entire league. They gave up 36 points in the 3rd quarter alone to a team who's leading scorer was Taj Gibson for the Bulls with 20 points along with 8 rebounds with Jimmy Butler helping the cause with 15 points of his own. Luol Deng who is only averaging 19.6 points per game and didn't even play in this game because of a left Achilles tendon is the teams leading scorer.

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The Nets leading scorer was Deron Williams who was able to only rack up 18 points with only 4 assists as well as 3 turnovers. The Nets bench didn't help much either, shooting 4-for-30 from the field! The Bulls are continuing their steps moving forward after losing their best player in Derrick Rose who is out with another knee injury and currently have a record of 11-16, which has them at the 9th seed out of the East. The Nets are currently tied for 11th with fellow empire state team the New York Knicks. Speaking of the Knicks, they were the next game on the Christmas slate.

After the game the reports started swirling around, just as expected when you have the media attention you get when your in the Big Apple, with talks about Jason Kidd ripping his team apart in the locker room after the game. Reports also state that Kevin Garnet backed the first year coach, expressing his displeasure with the way the team has been playing before storming off to the showers. Kidd said that the way his team responds to adversity is hard to stomach, at one point the Nets had a chance to recover a rebound that started to bounce down the court, with Reggie Evans having at least 3 steps ahead of the Jimmy Butler, and Butler beat him to the ball because Evans just quit running and began walking to the ball. Those are the kind of plays that Kidd has been stressing about with his team, and who knows what's coming next for the Nets because I doubt owner Mikhail Prokhorov will let this continue all season.

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