Dennis Schröder, Ziaire Williams dominate in Nets’ 119-106 road win over Grizzlies

The Memphis Grizzlies fundamentally gave the Nets a 2030 second-round prime to instrumentality connected Ziaire Williams’ declaration past offseason. The erstwhile lottery prime was reduced to a wage dump truthful the squad could unfastened up headdress abstraction to re-sign helping Luke Kennard.

Wednesday nighttime wrong FedExForum, successful his archetypal crippled backmost successful Memphis since the trade, Williams made his erstwhile squad look silly for giving up connected him truthful easily. The 23-year-old made his beingness felt the 2nd helium checked into the game, collecting 3 steals successful the archetypal fractional which each led to thunderous dunks. Those electrical plays acceptable the code successful the Nets’ 119-106 decision of the Grizzlies. His homecoming was decidedly 1 to remember, and helium made rather the statement.

Williams not lone got the dub successful his revenge game, but stuffed the stat sheet, finishing with 17 points, 3 assists, 4 steals and 1 block. His vigor and effort disconnected the seat helped Brooklyn amended to 2-3 and gain its archetypal roadworthy triumph of the season. It has present beaten Memphis 3 consecutive times connected the road, the archetypal clip it has done truthful since 1996-88.

The Nets changeable amended than 50% from the tract for the 2nd consecutive game, erstwhile again fueled by Dennis Schröder, who poured successful a season-high 33 points connected 11-of-14 shooting with 8 assists and six 3-pointers. The seasoned defender scored 28 points against the Denver Nuggets connected Tuesday night and has present had 4 consecutive games with 20-plus points and five-plus assists.

The German is having a vocation play scoring the shot and has been playing similar 1 of the champion guards successful the Eastern Conference this season. In his archetypal 5 games, helium is averaging 24.6 points and 8.2 assists portion shooting 54.7% from the tract and 55.3% from deep.

Jaren Jackson Jr. scored a team-high 30 points for Memphis. Ja Morant was constricted to conscionable 14 points connected 5-of-16 shooting.

The Nets played without Nic Claxton and mislaid the conflict successful the overgarment 58-46 and were outrebounded 38-34 against the larger Grizzlies. However, they made up for it with different stellar all-around antiaircraft performance, forcing 22 turnovers which created 31 points.

Free propulsion shooting by some teams was besides acold much balanced compared to Tuesday’s nonaccomplishment to Denver, though Memphis appeared to person a sizeable vantage early. Brooklyn had 25 attempts astatine the foundation stripe (made 22) portion the Grizzlies had 29 (made 22).

The Nets volition instrumentality to enactment against the Chicago Bulls astatine Barclays Center connected Friday.