All the Nets needed to do was make an inbounds pass.
Instead, they threw away the game.
Patrick Patterson picked off Deron Williams' inbounds pass and then took a pass from Kyle Lowry and drained a jumper with 6.0 seconds remaining to give the Raptors a dramatic 104-103 win, stealing what looked like a win from the Nets.
With no timeouts remaining, the Nets put the ball in the hands of Paul Pierce, who finished with a season-high 33 points, including going 7-for-10 from 3-point range. But Pierce's 3-pointer at the buzzer came up short, sending the Nets to just their second loss of the month — both to the Raptors.
With the win, the Raptors took a 2 ¹/₂ -game lead over the Nets atop the Atlantic Division, and snapped a five-game Brooklyn winning streak for the second time this month.
Lowry was sensational, finishing with 31 points, five rebound and seven assists while Jonas Valanciunas finished with 20 points and 13 rebounds for Toronto (23-21), which was playing without injured leading scorer DeMar DeRozan, who stayed in Toronto with a left foot/ankle injury.
The Raptors got off to a quick start behind some brilliant play from Lowry, a free agent-to-be who is both bidding for his first All-Star appearance and potentially showcasing himself as a possible trade chip for Toronto general manager Masai Ujiri.
Lowry did his best to fulfill that role early against the Nets, scoring 12 of Toronto's first 21 points and slicing his way through Brooklyn's defense at will, and his dish to Terrence Ross — fresh of a 51-point game Saturday against the Clippers — for a jumper gave Toronto a 23-13 lead with 4:52 remaining in the first.
But then it was time for Williams to respond. After checking in early for Shaun Livingston, Williams immediately got involved with seven quick points, hitting a pull-up 3-pointer before slicing through Toronto's defense for a pair of nifty finishes at the rim.
Those moves sparked a 13-2 run to end the first quarter, with Williams' second layup putting the Nets ahead 26-25 — their first lead of the game — to end the first.
The two teams then battled back and forth throughout the second, with neither team leading by more than three before Lowry scored Toronto's final eight points of the quarter — first stealing a defensive rebound from Kevin Garnett, dribbling back to the corner and knocking down a 3-pointer. He then hit a pair of free throws before responding to an Alan Anderson 3-pointer by draining one from about 50-feet away at the buzzer to send Toronto into halftime with a 57-56 lead.
Things got a little chippy in the third, with Lowry — long known around the league as an instigator — involved in nearly every altercation. After Lowry drew an offensive foul on Joe Johnson early in the third, he then drove to the other end and made a layup over Pierce, getting fouled in the process.
Pierce expressed his displeasure with the call, earning a technical foul and giving Lowry a four-point play. Just over a minute later, Lowry drew another offensive foul, this time on Garnett after he embellished some contact from the Nets' center. Garnett then tried to shove Valanciunas in frustration, earning a technical himself.
After Lowry made the free throw and hit Valanciunas for an alley-oop dunk on the ensuing possession, the Raptors took a 69-62 lead. But the Nets responded with an 11-2 run powered by six points from Pierce — one off a technical free throw after yet another run-in with Lowry, who was hit with one this time — followed by a 3-pointer in Lowry's face and a tip-in to give the Nets a 71-69 lead.
The teams exchanged the lead throughout the rest of the third quarter while both Lowry and Williams each sat with four fouls. Toronto went into the fourth with a 82-81 lead after Shaun Livingston's basket at the buzzer was waived off for being a moment too late.
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