![]() Brooklyn made a furious comeback in the fourth quarter thanks to their bench, but it wasn’t enough as the Nets could not turn around their shooting when the moment came. started to pick up their offense in a huge way. Murray cooled off from his electric first quarter, but Nikola Jokic and Michael Porter Jr. In the second half, things continued to be physical as Denver continued to attack the glass and pick up offensive rebounds. Mikal Bridges scored 11 points for the Nets, but it came on 3-of-11 shooting from the field. Things became physical in the second quarter as both teams began to match each other’s intensity. The Nuggets got out to a fast start in the first quarter as Jamal Murray scored 20 points and was one point short of matching Brooklyn’s score as a team. In the first half, Denver made sure that this game went differently than the first meeting between the two teams. Nikola Jokic had 22 points, 17 rebounds, and 10 assists and Aaron Gordon had 10 points. had 28 points and nine rebounds while Jamal Murray had 25 points and eight assists. Cam Johnson had 14 points and Seth Curry had 12 points off the bench.įor the Nuggets, Michael Porter Jr. The regular-season series between the two teams ends tied at 1-1.įor the Nets, Mikal Bridges had 23 points while Nic Claxton had 19 points and eight rebounds. Nuggets: Close out a three-game homestand Wednesday night against the Chicago Bulls.NEW YORK - The Brooklyn Nets welcomed the Denver Nuggets to Barclay’s Center on Sunday for the second and final matchup between the teams this regular-season and lost 108-102. Raptors: Continue their five-game road trip Wednesday in Los Angeles against the Clippers. … Murray made five of his 10 3-point tries and now has 803 in his career, one shy of the Nuggets’ franchise mark held by Will Barton, who was in the arena as a member of the Raptors. He has finished an assist or rebound shy of a triple-double nine times this season. The Nuggets are a league-best 30-4 at home this season.Jokic’s streak of 10 straight triple-doubles at home was snapped. Nuggets: F Zeke Nnaji remains sidelined indefinitely by a right shoulder injury. Raptors: All five starters scored in double figures, the fifth time that has happened this season. But the Raptors fought back to take an 88-83 lead into the fourth quarter and led 101-93 when Siakam converted a hook shot with 7:08 left to play. Murray scored 12 points in the third quarter, including a 3-pointer midway through the period that put the Nuggets up 72-69 for their first lead of the game. The burst included a 3-pointer by Porter and a dunk by Gordon off Jokic’s alley-oop pass in the final minute of the period. The Raptors led by as many as 10 points in the first half but Denver closed the second quarter with a 7-0 run to pull to 61-58 at the break. ![]() We just didn’t quite get it done at the very, very end.” “We probably outplayed them and executed really well and all those things. “We play like that, we’re probably going to be able to beat anybody,” he said. Toronto coach Nick Nurse said a similar effort on most any other night would produce a win. We were down the whole game but we stayed with it.” The Raptors finished with more second-chance points (20) than the Nuggets (14) and maintained a lead for most of the game. ![]() “We had timely stops, big baskets, big free throws, winning the challenge (that reversed a foul call on Jokic in the late going) and then winning that jump ball and getting to the free throw line on a technical. “It was another example of our defense stepping up when the game was on the line,” coach Michael Malone said. “I was just saying something to myself and I guess he took offense to it, so just kicked me out of the game,” Barnes said.įoster said Barnes was ejected with just one technical foul for using verbiage which “directly questioned the integrity of the crew.” Denver outscored Toronto 35-25 in the final quarter. Murray converted a free throw in that final stretch after Scottie Barnes was called for a technical following a foul by Jakob Poeltl and ejected by referee Scott Foster. Carmelo Anthony: Denver With a career scoring average above 24 points a game, Carmelo Anthony has made the Denver Nuggets a regular playoff participant in. VanVleet hit a pair of free throws as Toronto regained a one-point lead, but Denver scored the final six points, all on free throws, to secure the win. Siakam’s jumper with 2:20 remaining gave the Raptors a six-point edge, but the Nuggets rattled off seven straight points to go up 112-111 with 1:15 left. Fred VanVleet had 21 points for the Raptors.
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