For the third time in three games this season, the Nets got cuffed around by the Knicks like a scrawny younger brother. Their small lineup was no match for the bigger, more physical Knicks, who beat them up in dominating fashion in the fourth quarter of a 119-104 victory in Monday’s Martin Luther King Day matinee at Barclays Center.
The Nets cut a 14-point Knicks’ lead to 83-81 entering the fourth quarter. But the Knicks took charge with an 11-0 run to start the final period as the Nets missed all five of their shots, including a trio of three-pointers, and committed two turnovers in that span.