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The Brooklyn Nets had a tough task ahead of them as they went visited the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday for the second game of their five-game, west-coast road trip. Brooklyn unfortunately lost at the Suns 106-102 after Phoenix guard Grayson Allen made a clutch layup to seal the game in the end, but that was before both teams got into a scuffle during a loose-ball situation.
"Those are just guys protecting each other and fighting for each other, and I think they did a great job. You're not going to let any of your teammates get hit or pushed or anything," Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez said after Tuesday's loss at the Suns. Brooklyn came back from a 12-point deficit to make the game interesting in the fourth quarter, but the scuffle with 1:14 left to play in the fourth quarter seemed to be a culmination of all the emotions building throughout the game.
"It was bound to happen. It was a lot of chippy stuff going back and forth all game," Nets veteran Terance Mann said of the scuffle after the game. "Just a little scuffle. It happens all the time. I think guys just protecting their their teammates. I don't know why I got the technical but it is what it is," Nets sharpshooter Michael Porter Jr. said when giving his point of view of the altercation.
Following the fight for the loose ball that resulted in the benches of both teams clearing, technical fouls were issued to rookie Egor Demin, Mann, and Porter of the Nets and Allen and Royce O'Neale of the Suns. While Phoenix took just one free-throw after the situation was reviewed by the officials, the biggest fallout from the play was forward Ziaire Williams having to be helped off the floor with what looked to be an ankle injury resulting from the fracas.
"He's hurt. We don't know exactly what it is right now. It was a member of the other team running in to break up the fight, and he ran into him and hurt him," Fernandez said of a Suns staffer that can be seen running into Williams' leg as he was trying to intervene. "Obviously, it was not intentional. But, you got to be careful with those things. So, we'll see what happens. To see how long it is, and hopefully, it's not a long time."
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets react to intense scuffle late in loss at Suns
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"Those are just guys protecting each other and fighting for each other, and I think they did a great job. You're not going to let any of your teammates get hit or pushed or anything," Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez said after Tuesday's loss at the Suns. Brooklyn came back from a 12-point deficit to make the game interesting in the fourth quarter, but the scuffle with 1:14 left to play in the fourth quarter seemed to be a culmination of all the emotions building throughout the game.
"It was bound to happen. It was a lot of chippy stuff going back and forth all game," Nets veteran Terance Mann said of the scuffle after the game. "Just a little scuffle. It happens all the time. I think guys just protecting their their teammates. I don't know why I got the technical but it is what it is," Nets sharpshooter Michael Porter Jr. said when giving his point of view of the altercation.
Following the fight for the loose ball that resulted in the benches of both teams clearing, technical fouls were issued to rookie Egor Demin, Mann, and Porter of the Nets and Allen and Royce O'Neale of the Suns. While Phoenix took just one free-throw after the situation was reviewed by the officials, the biggest fallout from the play was forward Ziaire Williams having to be helped off the floor with what looked to be an ankle injury resulting from the fracas.
"He's hurt. We don't know exactly what it is right now. It was a member of the other team running in to break up the fight, and he ran into him and hurt him," Fernandez said of a Suns staffer that can be seen running into Williams' leg as he was trying to intervene. "Obviously, it was not intentional. But, you got to be careful with those things. So, we'll see what happens. To see how long it is, and hopefully, it's not a long time."
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets react to intense scuffle late in loss at Suns
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