BROOKLYN - The Brooklyn Nets entered Sunday night's game against the Detroit Pistons having been a bit demoralized some 18 hours earlier on a LeBron James game-winning shot. A 3-13 team, coming off an an 0-2 road trip and being asked to slow down one of the best big men in the game in Andre Drummond. Luckily for the Nets, the Pistons haven't been playing well themselves, especially on the road where they have lost six of their last seven games away from Detroit.
It took over three quarters of ugly basketball, but on the backs of Shane Larkin, Thaddeus Young, Wayne Ellington and Brook Lopez, the Nets finally came alive in the fourth quarter and were able to start playing "basketball.