Spanish coach Jordi Fernandez’s Brooklyn Nets were on the verge of blowing a 24-point lead against the Bucks in Milwaukee, but held on for a 113-110 win despite going 6.49 minutes without scoring. No point in the fourth period. Another victory for the Spanish coach, who will try to give his best in 2025.
The Nets finished the regular season series against the Bucks with three wins and only one loss and bounced back from a three-game losing streak. Fernandez’s team won 111–90 in the fourth period, but suffered a resounding 20–0 deficit that put the Bucks back in the game.
fear in the fourth trimester
Milwaukee had the ball to take a 111–110 lead at lights out, but Giannis Antetokounmpo missed a layup against great defense from Nick Claxton.Doc Rivers’ team would have possession again and Damian Lillard launched a three-pointer for a potential tie with no luck. Cameron Johnson led the Nets with 26 points and Cam Thomas contributed 24 off the bench in a game in which the Nets entered without Ben Simmons, De’Anthony Melton and newly signed Maxwell Lewis.
D’Angel Russell, added by the Nets on Sunday, had eleven points and twelve assists, but had to leave the game in the fourth quarter due to injury.Russell needed help from the medical staff to leave the track. For the Bucks, Antetokounmpo had 27 points, thirteen rebounds and seven assists. Damian Lillard contributed 23 points and seven assists. The Nets are in twelfth place in the East (13 wins and 21 losses). The Bucks are sixth (17-15).
“It depends on the occupation”
For the Spanish coach of the Brooklyn Nets, many NBA games “depend on one possession” And in the post-game press conference praised his team for showing commitment and character in the victory achieved at the Milwaukee Bucks arena (113–110).
Jordi Fernandez, coach of the Brooklyn Nets /ap
,In the end it comes down to one possession, and that’s how you win these games. In the end we suffered a loss, we had some good shots in the fourth quarter, but they couldn’t go in“In the end, by staying together we made a great save in possession (by Giannis Antetokounmpo with 6 seconds remaining),” Fernandez said in the Fiserv Forum during his post-match press conference.
