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#Garrett Temple takes ‘blame’ for costly Nets turnover

#Garrett Temple takes ‘blame’ for costly Nets turnover

August 19, 2020 | 10:13pm | Updated August 19, 2020 | 10:14pm

With the Nets trailing by three in the waning seconds of Wednesday’s first-round Game 2 against the Raptors, Joe Harris and Garrett Temple botched a handoff and committed a decisive turnover that sealed a 104-99 defeat.

Temple, a veteran locker-room leader, shouldered the blame for the turnover. He said he presumed Harris would do the same. But it was a galling endgame that left a pall over what was a solid bounce-back performance from the Nets.

“The thing that [I’d do] differently is we complete the handoff. That’s all there is to it,” Temple said. “I take blame on that. If you ask Joe, he’ll say he takes blame. On a handoff, it takes two. We just have to complete it. There was nothing else that should have been done.

“We defended without fouling, we rebounded the ball better, and it came down to a last possession. We gave ourselves a chance, put ourselves in a position to win, and in the playoffs, that’s what you want to be able to do. … So it’s tough to take. But we understand we can play with these guys, and we’ll try to go get the next one.”

Down 102-99, Temple inbounded the ball to Harris. But harassing defense by Kyle Lowry blew up the play. As Harris tried to hand the ball off to Temple, it squirted loose. Temple ended up prone on the court trying to recover it, with Norman Powell streaking the other way for a dunk that essentially sealed it with 5.6 seconds to play.

“We got the ball in the hands of our shooter. Good defense by Kyle Lowry. The ball was intended for Joe, it got to Joe,” interim coach Jacque Vaughn said.

Garrett Temple and the Nets lose a heartbreaker today.
Garrett Temple and the Nets lose a heartbreaker today.AP

“It was a great play call by JV, and it was great defense by the Raptors,” Jarrett Allen said. “They kind of ran [at] everything I think we were doing, they were ready for anything, and we ended up fumbling the ball at the end, and they stole it and got a dunk on the other end.”

It left Brooklyn down by five with little chance. But when Caris LeVert pushed the ball up court and Temple attempted a 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left, Fred VanVleet’s physical defense right on the line sent him to the floor and his shot awry.

“When Caris kicked it up to me, I was a little off balance. I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to get back inbounds. I thought — I don’t know who was guarding me, whether it was Powell or VanVleet — I felt like I got nudged a little bit,” Temple said. “That didn’t lose us the game. We were down by five at that point with a few seconds left. The critical turnover was when me and Joe weren’t able to get the handoff to get going. That basically sealed it right there.”

The always dignified Temple popped up and appeared perturbed after the non-call on the last play.

“You know, players play to the end of the horn, and that’s what he expected from everyone on the floor,” Vaughn said. “Garrett is a respectable young man. I’m quite sure if he felt he got fouled, we’ve got to take a look at it.”

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