• Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Time To Kick It Into High Gear: Nets vs Raptors Game 4

Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports

The Nets head into the Barclays Center Sunday night after gaining a 2-1 lead over the Raptors on Friday. It was a game in which Toronto clawed their way back to within 1 from being down 15 points with five minutes left in the game, but the Nets were able to hold on. Tonight Brooklyn will try to draw more blood from a young raptors team that just won’t seem to go away.

“I love the fight from my team,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. “This team tried to throw haymakers at us and go at us and we did a good job of battling back and staying in the game and competing.”

Casey knows that his team has been resilient as of late, but with them already being down 2-1 he can only expect Brooklyn to do their very best to throw their biggest hit yet. Brooklyn on the other hand just hopes their fans can be their extra warriors to lead them into the battle this time around.

“Yeah (the crowd) was a little slow to start,” Deron Williams said. “Seven o’clock game on a Friday night in New York, that’s tough. So hopefully it will be better come Sunday.” said Nets PG Deron Williams.

Kevin Garnett added to the conversation saying,“Could do better. I was expecting Brooklyn to be real hostile, New York-style,” Garnett also was surprised because he remembers the crowd when he was in Boston.“Knowing what it’s like to come here as the opposition, so our crowd could do better. But they were there when they needed us, and we fed off of them.”

Brooklyn fans have a chance to redeem themselves on Sunday night and one Nets player feels the fans aren’t the only ones that can go bigger.

“Well we know we haven’t played our best game yet,” Pierce said before Sunday’s morning shootaround. “So being on our homecourt, we know we gotta protect our homecourt. I just got a feeling that our best game has yet to come. After three games, we know what they’re doing and they know what we’re doing, so it’s time for us to have a breakout game, and I think this is gonna be it.”

Deron Williams also agreed that the Nets still haven’t put it in their highest gear,“I definitely feel we have another level we can go up to,” Deron William said. “Definitely on both ends of the floor. I don’t think we’ve really shot well as a team yet, so it would be nice to have one of those games.”

With both Nets fans and players getting ready to put it in high gear, Toronto looks to keep the series even by coming out of Brooklyn 2-2 and DeMar DeRozan has confidence in his team to win.

“Yeah, but we know we can beat this team,” DeRozan said. “We was down 15 and once we see we were down 15 we started playing and cut the game down. We’ve got to play like that for a full 48 minutes.”

Both teams need to play a full 48 minutes to win in this series and both teams have match each others aggression, making this a must- watch game tonight at 7 p.m.

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By Vernon McKenzie

Graduate of New Institute Of Technology with a BA in Communications with a focus on Television Radio. Owner and Executive Producer of PureSportsNY

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