This one hurt.
After digging themselves out of double-digit deficits in the first and second halves, the Nets couldn't hold onto a lead late in regulation and suffered a 127-122 overtime loss to the Raptors in front of 17,062 at Barclays Center on Friday night.
Jarrett Jack had 35 points, eight rebounds and 13 assists in a herculean effort for the Nets (18-28), playing all but 47 seconds because of Darius Morris' ineffectiveness and Deron Williams' fractured rib cartilage that once again left him in street clothes.
But despite Jack's explosion and a huge game from Brook Lopez (35 points, 12 rebounds) off the bench, the Nets couldn't close this one out. They repeatedly failed to secure defensive rebounds both at the end of regulation and overtime, which led to second-chance baskets for the Raptors and let what could have been their best win of the season slip through their fingers.
Before fans could even get settled in their seats, the Raptors had jumped out to a 12-0 lead, as the Nets missed their first five shots and committed a turnover before Jack knocked down a 3-pointer almost four minutes into the game to put them on the board.
That didn't stop the bleeding, however, and coach Lionel Hollins was forced to call a second quick timeout after a Kyle Lowry layup gave the Raptors a 16-3 lead halfway through the first.
The Nets eventually got back in the game, even taking a brief early second-quarter lead, but the Raptors took control of the game again late in that quarter, going on a 16-6 for a 10-point lead. Toronto went into halftime up 66-54 after shooting 59 percent in the first half and going 15-for-16 from the free-throw line.
Trying to get a spark, Hollins started the second half with Bojan Bogdanovic and Lopez in place of Alan Anderson and Mason Plumlee. Instead, the Nets opened the second half like they did the first, giving up a quick run to the Raptors. Toronto equaled its largest lead of the game when a Patrick Patterson jumper with 5:29 remaining in the third made it 84-67.
Once again, though, the Nets dragged themselves back into the game. Although the Raptors couldn't miss for most of the third quarter, the Nets managed to make enough shots to stay close, and then scored the final six points of the quarter to make it 90-82 heading into the fourth.
From there, the Nets took over, opening the quarter with a 15-3 run, with a pair of Jack free throws giving them a 97-93 lead and capping a 30-9 run. The Raptors opened the fourth quarter with eight straight misses to lose control of a game that once seemed firmly in their grasp.
Toronto eventually got its act together, getting 10 straight points from DeMar DeRozan to keep pace with the Nets, who got three straight buckets from Lopez to remain in the lead, including a lefty layup with 2:58 remaining that gave them a 108-105 advantage.
The Nets cooled off, though, missing a couple of shots in a row and then failing to secure a defensive rebound three times inside the final two minutes, allowing Toronto to retake the lead at 111-110 on a Patterson tip-in.
A Joe Johnson step-back jumper with 33.5 seconds left gave the Nets the lead once again at 112-111, and set up the frantic final seconds of the game. But after DeRozan missed a pull-up jumper that would have given Toronto the lead, the ball went out of bounds to the Nets.
Lopez, however, only managed to knock down one of two free throws after being fouled on the inbounds, giving Toronto the ball back with 21.8 seconds left and the Nets ahead, 113-111. That proved to be costly, as DeRozan drew two defenders and hit Amir Johnson for a wide-open dunk to tie the game with 12.1 seconds left.
After the initial play for the Nets wound up with the ball going out of bounds, Lopez got a wide-open look to win it at the buzzer — but the shot to clanged off the front of the rim, sending the game to overtime.
The Nets briefly took the lead on a Lopez shot in the lane that made it 117-116, but the Raptors got two straight baskets — one from DeRozan, and the other from Amir Johnson on a putback — to take a 120-117 lead with 1:41 remaining in the extra session.
Lopez then converted an and-one to tie the game, and after DeRozan was fouled on a made jumper and missed the free throw, Jack tied the game again at 122 with a floater in the lane with 56.6 seconds left.
But Johnson cleaned up another miss, this time on a block of DeRozan by Plumlee, and after Jack missed a jumper in the lane and Bogdanovic missed an open 3-pointer in the corner after an offensive rebound, the Raptors made their free throws and pulled out the win.
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