Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA

show.

I'm Jared Weiss.

I'm joined by Trayvon Edwards and Tray.

Let's get to the Brooklyn win over the Dallas Mavericks.

They win 102 to 99 and Dallas's

offense imploded in the fourth quarter. Man, I don't even know where to start, man. They started off

so hot, you know, KP. Donchich. Everybody's rolling, you know, they get up this big league, slow start

for the Nets.

Kevin Durant's not as active as he normally is.

And then we get to the fourth quarter and the math just collapse.

Can't make a shot.

The Nets go on a run, rally to get to win.

Kevin Durant's surgical, you know, in the fourth quarter gets it going.

I think the thing that stuck out for me is Durant handling the pressure of the double and trusting his teammates to make shots and then also making the reads of getting those one-on-one

matchups and exploiting them.

I think the big thing that we saw the fourth quarter early on is Hardin, just getting downhill, getting Nick Claxton. Nick Laxon had a really good fourth quarter. And I mean, Dallas just, they couldn't really contain anybody trying to drive on them. Yeah, I mean, they couldn't stay in front of anybody in this situation. And then, you know, they just couldn't make a shot to save their lives. It was one of those, uh, when the Nets went on the seven oh run. And they tried to respond. It was, you know, open shot after open shot missed. They got several opportunities still couldn't make a shot. And most want to point blame to Jason Kidd, but, you know, his team, they just cooled off. They couldn't buy a bucket.

Yeah, and Luca couldn't really seem to figure out how to actually, like, score. There was that

one play where he got Patty Mills on the post up and scored over him. He hit KP kind of crashing

into the paint when he got to drive, but like otherwise, I mean, they just weren't really creating

any good looks for themselves. Then you saw last play of the game, they were just kind of, was it Brooklyn Blitz, Luca, and they were trying to find their way out of it. Hardaway actually got a decent look at it, but it was just, it felt like the whole fourth quarter was them kind of desperately trying to find a look and they weren't finding anything. Yeah, they were playing, they were playing trying to not basically lose the

lead, and that's what they did. So the nets had Patty Mills kind of like a little colds,

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