ORACLE ARENA, OAKLAND, CA — This is a continuation of the halftime recap of the Brooklyn Nets at the Golden State Warriors.
The Nets took a 54-52 lead into halftime.
3rd Quarter – Iron Unkind For The Dubs
The Warriors couldn’t break the stranglehold the Nets had on them, as Jarrett Jack continued to dissect the Golden State defense with a Rajon Rondo-like fake pass back as he dribbled into the lane for a floater.
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Even as Harrison Barnes put on his #BlackFalcon costume and roared down the lane right-to-left past the cement-footed Joe Johnson for a dunk, Draymond Green couldn’t catch a bad pass from Stephen Curry and Jack turned that opportunity for the Nets into a pull-up three-pointer.
Black Falcon sighting! #DubNation pic.twitter.com/fPJsBvZ3x9
— Golden St. Warriors (@warriors) November 15, 2015
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After Barnes came back with a post up over Jack and Curry added a scissoring floater past Jack, Green made a weak entry into Andrew Bogut deep in the lane and Thaddeus Young, who had 20 points at the half, finished the fast break with a thunderous alley-oop slam.
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Andre Iguodala, Green, and Young then traded missed threes until Curry finally got another one to fall to make it 71-68, Nets, with 3:13 to go.
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But the Warriors went cold as Green missed a wide-open triple from the left corner in transition, then Curry missed three consecutive long-distance attempts, hitting back-iron on early offense that would have brought the house down, then off the mark from the right wing as Iguodala tracked down the offensive rebound and gave Steph a second look, which he couldn’t take advantage of.
As the quarter came to a close, Joe Johnson missed badly off the board and rim from the deep left wing, Iguodala corralled the rebound, but Jack took it away from him and lofted a floater that rattled in at the buzzer.
The Nets took a 77-70 lead into the final frame.
4th Quarter – Pulling Rabbits Out Of The Hat
The Nets hung in there even as the Warriors did well disrupting shots at the rim, as Brook Lopez didn’t let Andrew Bogut’s slap of the ball prevent him from completing a reverse layup.
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After Curry came off a baseline screen and splashed a catch-and-shoot trey from the left wing, curling around Bogut, assisted by Iguodala, Green checked back in with 6:46 to play.
Green picked-and-rolled with Curry and got a bucket drawing contact at the rim with no call, and #Roaracle was on its feet with Golden State down, 85-81.
After Young missed a jump hook from the left baseline, again bothered by Bogut’s presence, Green found Curry open on the left wing in transition and Steph buried the triple, forcing Brooklyn head coach Lionel Holins to call timeout with the crowd on its feet.
The Warriors had cut the Nets’ lead to just one, 85-84, with 5:23 remaining.
Out of the timeout, the Nets couldn’t convert and Curry came back with a swooping reverse layup going left to right, and with the squad poised to make a defensive stop, half of #Roaracle began chanting, “Let’s go Warriors!” while the other half chanted, “Warriors!” — all in all, quite deafening!
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Barnes took advantage of the moment and buried a pull-up jumper, but Johnson answered back with an iso fadeaway over Iguodala.
Warriors interim head coach Luke Walton called timeout and, out of the timeout, Green got a layup as the Warriors played “tic-tac-toe” from Livingston at the point to Iguodala on the left wing then to Green on the weakside cut.
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Jack put on his superhero cape again for Brooklyn and drew two free throws drawing the contact just enough on a pull-up, then was able to sneak past the longer Livingston for a layup with the ball hitting back-iron and trickling in.
Meanwhile, the Warriors countered with an Iguodala jumper over Johnson from up top and a misdirect from Curry dribbling towards the left wing and sucking Young in on the help to far.
Steph zinged a cross-court pass to Green on the right wing and he attacked the rim and got a layup to put the Warriors on top, 94-93, with 50.9 seconds remaining.
Bogut then got a key rebound on a missed Lopez jump hook and Young stuck around to swipe at the ball and free it from Bogut’s grasp, then Jack drew another foul on Livingston and, of course, made both clutch free throws.
That put the Nets up, 95-94, with 29.9 seconds remaining.
Curry tried to catch the Nets on their heels, and they were for the most part, but Steph’s lefty drive and layup went too hard off glass.
Young got the rebound, got it to his point guard Jack and, anticipating the foul, took his time to advance the ball.
The only thing was, the Warriors were somehow disciplined not to foul and played a zone of sorts, forcing Jack into an 8-second violation in the backcourt.
The Warriors had the ball back with 15.3 seconds remaining, down one point.
But out of the timeout, Curry made a jump pass deflected by arch-nemesis Jack, and Young found the ball in his hands. Green immediately gave him a bear-hug for the foul.
Young made both free throws to put Brooklyn back up, 97-94. Walton called timeout to draw up a three-point play.
The inbound went to Iguodala, who surveyed and launched from the left wing under duress. The ball went through and, incredibly, the Warriors had tied the game, 97-97, with 9.9 seconds left.
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After a Hollins timeout, the Nets advanced the ball, Jack took the potential game-winner, but missed from the left baseline. The ball went out of bounds under the Nets basket with 0.5 seconds left.
Johnson inbounded the ball with a perfect lob to Lopez, who back-ironed the shot from point-blank range after wrestling with Bogut.
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The game went into overtime tied at 97-apiece.
Overtime – Dominance
The Warriors took command of the game early in overtime, as Bogut got an alley-oop from Green, Johnson turned the ball over to Iguodala, and Livingston got a dunk in transition.
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Curry then tried to attack, but got yet another over-the-shoulder pass deflected. Luckily, Bogut was there to swat at it and the ball went back to the top to Green, who charged into the lane and got a pretty floater to drop.
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That put Golden State up, 103-97.
Jack then went down the left side and got snuffed by Bogut as the ball bounced off Jack’s leg out of bounds.
Putting salt on the Nets’ wounds, the next trip down, Curry got the step on Jack on the left baseline and went in for quasi-dunk that just got over the rim.
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Hollins called timeout and the Warriors were up, 105-97, with 2:05 left.
Out of the timeout, Johnson made another critical turnover with a bad pass. Green turned it into a fastbreak going the other way and, in stride, lofted the ball perfectly to a soaring Iguodala for the dramatic dunk finish, putting Golden State up by the insurmountable overtime tally of 107-97.
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Even as Young converted a bucket after Curry’s 4th turnover, time was running out fast for Brooklyn and #Roaracle began to chant, “Warrrrrriors!”
Jack got a trey blocked by Bogut and the Nets had fallen off a cliff in overtime, so badly overmatched in the extra period that Curry simply ran out the shotclock for a team turnover with 7.7 seconds remaining and the Nets standing there in what could be borrowed from Major League Baseball as “defensive indifference”.
Lopez missed a meaningless three-pointer and the Warriors had won their 11th straight game to start the season, 107-99
Golden State will face the Toronto Raptors at home on Tuesday, three nights from now.
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