In the west 5 games separate the top 6 teams. Mavs knock off Spurs with the return of Doncic. Mavs are a serious contender the West
In the East however I sure hope the return of KD next year will make the Nets a contender because here is a startling stat fro last night's game
Nets set shot clock era record for futility
From NBA.com Staff
Brooklyn entered Saturday's crosstown clash set to face a Knicks team with an interim head coach and a bottom-five defense.
The Nets left with
a 94-82 loss and a historically awful showing from the field.
When the day after Christmas was done, Brooklyn had polished off a putrid 21-for-78 (26.9 percent) shooting performance, the worst by any team since Orlando lost to Boston 87-56 in 2012. The Nets' performance was punctuated by just eight made two-point field goals: the fewest by any franchise since the shot clock was instituted in 1954.
According
to the Elias Sports Bureau, it's not been since 1950 -- when the Fort Wayne Pistons edged the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 (not a typo!) -- has a team made eight or fewer two-pointers.
Only two Nets players scored in double figures. One of them was Spencer Dinwiddie (25 points, 5-15 FGs), who could only
ruefully blame the recent holiday for team's struggles.
"Let's go with too much eggnog," Dinwiddie said. "I don't know what else to tell you."
Even DeAndre Jordan and Jarrett Allen, each of them big men shooting better than 65 percent on the season, finished a combined 2-for-8 from the field. The entire performance left Dinwiddie struggling to find different ways to describe the Nets' forgettable night.
"We were really, really bad," Dinwiddie said. "Like laughably bad. We shot really bad. Probably historically bad."
