"The Nets spent most of Friday night looking like a team that actually learned something from Wednesday's mess at Madison Square Garden. And then, when the game demanded the smallest details, Brooklyn let it slip anyway. That's the brutal part of their 130-126 double-overtime loss to the Boston Celtics at Barclays Center. The Nets looked like they'd turned a page in stretches, but you're not fixing everything overnight, and the same late-game issues that have haunted them all season popped back up when it mattered most."
"The first overtime should've been the end of it. Noah Clowney seemed to put Brooklyn ahead for good with 41.6 seconds left in the extra session. Rookie Nolan Traore, who finished with a career-high 21 points off the bench, and Ziaire Williams looked ready to ice it at the line, combining for five straight free throws until Traore finally missed with 2.5 seconds left. That's all Boston needed. The Celtics didn't need a two. They needed a 3-pointer. And the Nets, for all the toughness they showed across 50-plus minutes, cracked at the wrong time."
The Nets lost 130-126 in double overtime to the Boston Celtics after surrendering a corner 3 that forced a second extra period. Brooklyn played with effort and urgency for much of the game and had chances to finish in the first overtime, with Noah Clowney giving them a late lead and Nolan Traore and Ziaire Williams converting multiple free throws before a late miss. Defensive lapses in the closing moments undid stretches of improved play, and recurring late-game breakdowns prevented the team from closing out a winnable contest.
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