Jokic flashed his preternatural passing, that trademarked push floater and a bruising physicality that the Nets couldn’t match.
But their defense got shredded during a 108-102 loss in Sunday’s rematch.
Helpless on that end of the court, they watched Denver put three scorers over 20 points in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter. “Yeah an extreme sense of urgency; I think that was the biggest difference for us in the second half [last week], and we’ll need that for four quarters [Sunday],” Jacque Vaughn had said beforehand.
He flashed his preternatural passing, that trademarked push floater and a bruising physicality that the Nets couldn’t match.
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