The Nets’ penultimate home 🃏game of the season produced one of the most pitiful offensive games of the year.
They were rout🐲ed, 107-77, by the Kings in front of a sellout crowd of 17,732 at Barclays Center.
Those disappointed fans saw far more missed s𝄹hots by the Nets than great defense by Sacramento.
The 77 points tied for the third-lowest scoring output in the league all season, ahead of only the Knicks’ 73 ♋on March 10 and the Magic’s 74 against the Knicks on March 8.
The Nets s🐈hot just .349 from the floor and only 7 of 30 from deep.
“We let our offensive drought affect us on the other end. We got punked a lot, t👍oo,🏅” Noah Clowney told The Post. “Just getting punked.”
Having won five of their previoꦐus seven, the Nets (31-48) had been looking to build a semblance of positive momentum.
What they got was a beating.
Granted, the Nets played the tail end of a back-to-back with a decimated frontcourt, missing Ni🌼c Claxton, Cam Johnson and Dorian Finney-Smith.
But trailing by 25 in the💖 first half and 33 in the second, 🌌this was never close.
“We tried to play some lineups and see some guys and play some different gu𝔉ys. You’ve got eight guys c🔯oming off a back-to-back,” said Kevin Ollie. “It’s no excuses, but we don’t have our whole team.”
Cam Thomas had 21 points.
But 19-year-old rookie Clowney got muscled around, knocked to the court at least four times💯 and thrown around by Domantas Sabonis.
It was Dennis ಌSchroder who got 🎉called for a flop, sent flying and hit with a technical for his trouble.
It was that kind of evening.
Leading, 14-7, after Schroder found Clowney for a 🥃cutting layup with 5:47 le💟ft in the first, the Nets allowed a 20-3 run over the next 5 ½ minutes.
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The Nets missed seven of thei🐭r next eight sho꧒ts and committed three turnovers.
And when the blitz🔯 was done, they trailed 27-17 after Davion Mitchell’s 3-pointer with half a minute left in the first.
De’Aaron Fox’s midrange turnaround just before the half left the Nets in 💫a 65-40 hole𓆏 from which they never managed to climb out.
It was an odd half that sawꦫ Mikal Bridges take just two๊ shots — missing both — during an invisible, scoreless half.
Meanwhile, Schroder shot 1 of 12.
“There were some great looks,” Ollie said. “From my eyes, my coaching eyes, they were some good shots. We had some really good looks, they just didn’t fall💧 for us. That’s something you gotta live with, and we’re gonn🅘a get better from it.”
Theܫ Nets managed to claw within 14 to end t♊he third.
But not only coul✃dn’t they make a final run, they saw the Kings blo🍸w it wide open.
A 27-8 run left the Nets in a 33-point chasm.
Sa✨bonis came within a hair of his 27th tripl🍎e-double.
He haꦫd 18 points, 20 rebounds and nine assists, checking out with the game well in hand.
Fox had 20 points and five boards for the Kings.