Nets’ Mikal Bridges says team’s ‘connection is great’ after win over Nuggets
Brooklyn Nets forward Mikal Bridges has been awesome for the Nets since he arrived in Brooklyn by way of the Kevin Durant trade. One of the things that he has preached since coming to the Nets is how the team is a family and that as long as the team sticks together, they have a good shot of beating any opponent. That proved true once again.
In Sunday’s 122-120 win over the Denver Nuggets, Bridges had 25 points and three assists as he once again played a pivotal role in Brooklyn’s win. Sunday’s game proved especially tough for the Nets as they had built double-digit leads on the Nuggets on two different occasions only for Denver to overcome those leads in just a matter of minutes.
Bridges had another good scoring game for Brooklyn despite his tough task of guarding Denver’s Jamal Murray throughout the contest. With as much as this game flowed back and forth between the teams, it was important for the Nets to keep their composure and weather the runs by the Nuggets as best as they could until they could throw a counter. Bridges spoke about how Brooklyn stayed together in those tough moments and how important it will be as the season nears its conclusion:
“It’s (the team’s connection) great. I think after all star and then the little awakening when Chicago beat us pretty bad. And, I think we played the Knicks after too, they beat us pretty bad too, right? Yeah, just some little awakenings right there where it’s like, listen, like, we got short time, we got to figure this out. And, that’s where it was just little meetings and talking and figuring out our defense and our offense. We just we had to move quick and that’s what we did.”
