If the way the Nets played Monday night against the Pacers is any indication of what they'll look like without Brook Lopez, thing won't be getting better anytime soon.
In their first game since Lopez was lost for the year with a fractured fifth metatarsal in his right foot, the Nets were blasted off their home floor by the Eastern Conference leading Pacers, 103-86, in front of a sellout crowd of 17,732 inside Barclays Center.
The Nets (9-18) have now lost three straight, four of their last five, and are now tied with the Knicks for third place in the horrid Atlantic Division. They sit two games behind the Celtics for eighth place in the equally horrid Eastern Conference.
After a hot start, the Nets simply couldn't make a shot, looking lost without the option of tossing the ball into their All-Star center. Instead, they looked out of sorts all night, led by a dreadful performance from Deron Williams, who went 3-for-9 from the field and finished with nine points, eight assists and four turnovers in 32 minutes.
To make matters worse, Williams appeared to tweak his left ankle, which has already cost him 11 games this season, shortly before exiting the game for the final time in the fourth quarter, limping to the bench after the Nets called timeout after Williams hit a 3-pointer.
Also missing the fourth was Paul Pierce, who was ejected with 4:22 left in the third after hitting George Hill around the neck, after the Pacers' point guard picked off an errant Joe Johnson pass and took off down the floor. After a short review, the original flagrant foul call was upgraded to a flagrant 2, and Pierce turned and walked to the locker room, his night complete after going 0-for-7 from the field in 15 minutes.
It initially looked as if the Nets might rally together and give the Pacers (23-5) a game after beginning 7-for-11 from the field and taking an early 16-10 lead on an Andray Blatche jumper with 5:38 remaining in the opening quarter.
But the Nets would go on to miss their final 10 shots of the quarter as the Pacers went on a 9-1 run to take a 19-17 lead after one that, outside of the Nets briefly regaining the lead for 65 seconds early in the second, they would never relinquish.
As it often has this season, it was the third quarter that put the Nets in a hole they couldn't recover from, as the Pacers opened the quarter with a 17-4 run and never looked back, at one point leading by as many as 24 late in the third.
From there, the Pacers toyed with the Nets, with Paul George — who finished with 26 points, six rebounds and five assists — at one point throwing down a double-pump reverse slam that wouldn't have looked out of place in the NBA's Slam Dunk contest, while Brooklyn native Lance Stephenson had 26 points, seven rebounds and five assists, including a beautiful dish off a drive to Luis Scola.
Mirza Teletovic, who started in Lopez's place, went 3-for-10 from the field to finish with eight points to go along with three rebounds and three assists, while Joe Johnson led the Nets with 17 points.
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