SALT LAKE CITY — So much for back-to-back wins.
George Hill scored a season-high 34 points and the Jazz handled the Nets wire-to-wire in a 112-97 victory Friday night.
The Nets’ NBA-worst record dropped to 10-49 and they could not follow up Wednesday’s victory over Kings with another win.
“I thought they really overwhelmed us physically,” Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said. “They are a big strong team and George Hill was fantastic and they are a very good team. We just didn’t have the energy to be able to compete with them tonight.”
Utah put the game away with a 19-5 stretch in the third quarter, capped by Rudy Gobert’s alley-oop dunk from Dante Exum.
Utah had great ball movement on offense and Brooklyn’s defense never got the Jazz out of rhythm.
On the other end, Quincy Acy scored a season-high 18 points for the Nets and Brook Lopez had 17 — the only Nets to consistently get anything going on the offensive end.
Jeremy Lin scored just seven points, with two assists and three turnovers, in 16 minutes.
Trevor Booker and, Randy Foye and Sean Kilpatrick each added eight points for the Nets.