Kilpatrick, Nets Rally for Double-OT Victory Over Clippers

For 36 minutes, there was a lid on the basket whenever Sean Kilpatrick took a shot. L.A. led Brooklyn by 12 at the break and then carried the momentum into the third quarter, seemingly trying to put the Nets away well before the fourth.

“I ended up getting into a zone”, Kilpatrick said. Rivers was upset because he had been talking to referee Lauren Holtkamp when Mauer intervened. Up by two points with less than 30 seconds remaining, Brooklyn gave the ball back to him.

Kilpatrick finished off Brooklyn’s first win since November 12 in Phoenix by providing the final margin with 13.5 seconds left. Rivers was fined $15,000 for for verbal abuse of an official and for failure to leave the court in a timely manner. That was until Kilpatrick and the Nets defense took over – with a little help from Doc Rivers, who lost his composure in a 2-point game, with 18 seconds to go. “But the people we hired did, and they told me biometrically that this would be a good day for him to rest”.

MILWAUKEE – Giannis Antetokounmpo tied a career high with 34 points and Milwaukee stunned Cleveland. “We haven’t done crap”, he said. And lastly, but most notably, Brooklyn has played this entire stretch, and longer, without Jeremy Lin.

Sean Kilpatrick, a player who was collecting National Basketball Association checks 10 days at a time a year ago, iced the game with a driving basket and a free throw in the second overtime. After a beating in Los Angeles that was so bad it sent them into the skid, the Nets scrapped and clawed their way Tuesday night to a come-from-behind 127-122 double-overtime win over the Clippers. “But, I’m all right with it, honestly, because I think you deserve it when you do that”.

Things got much weirder from there. After the initial call, Rivers had to be held back by DeAndre Jordan and assistant coach Sam Cassell and was handed a second technical which resulted in an automatic ejection.

Indeed, the Clippers lost not because of Brooklyn’s brilliant execution, but because they allowed offensive possessions to become layup lines, because they seemed indifferent to chasing anyone off the 3-point line, because they didn’t believe guys named Booker, Bogdanovic and Harris could beat them. The Nets made small progress from an 18-point deficit to get it to 86-73 through the third when Kilpatrick was 3 of 14.

Kilpatrick had 14 rebounds, too, putting him with Anthony Davis as the only players this season with at least 38 points and 14 rebounds in a game. “And, for us to walk around against a team, to me, that’s playing their hearts out every night to just win one game, for us to walk around like we’ve done something, it bothers me on a basketball level. “(Sunday) afternoon, I had to go up to Doc’s room and I walk in there, and it’s our trainer, our head of player performance (Lawrence) Frank and Doc. We have to fix it and stop the bleeding at some point. “(They were) like, ‘Are you OK?’ I’m like, ‘What the hell?

Brook Lopez showed why he’s integral to the Nets success in the first quarter, hitting two of his three shots from behind the arc as he dragged DeAndre Jordan out of the paint.

The Clippers started 39-year-old Paul Pierce, who had played in just two games, in place of Griffin.