The Sacramento Kings blew a 28-point lead in front of their home crowd Tuesday night to the Brooklyn Nets.
D’Angelo Russell caught fire in the form of a layup drill on his way to 44 points, and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson hit the game-winning layup in the last seconds of the game.
After the game, Kings head coach Dave Joerger and the players explained what happened.
Dave Joerger
”We relaxed and were very casual, didn’t run back on defense, turned the basketball over a ton and took a lot of jump shots because we thought it was going to be easy, and I told them two minutes into the fourth quarter – this team is going to run it back at you because we’ve made so much carelessness with the basketball, and we fouled kind of silly fouls, and so they were in the penalty shooting the rest of the game with 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter.