Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET the Brooklyn Nets, fresh off a big home win in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Miami Heat, will aim to even up the series at the Barclays Center in a Game 4 that can be watched on TNT or live streamed free by clicking this link. Nets fans can tune in to the radio broadcast on WCBS 880 AM, while Heat fans can do likewise on 790 The Ticket.
The legendary vendetta Paul Pierce wages against LeBron James' Miami Heat was on full display in Game 3, and very evident in his comments about the win after Brooklyn's ensuing practice.
"You've got to have that type of mental ego against a juggernaut. You go against the best, a lot of series are won on fear factor, like, or non-belief. When you have that non-belief, then you have no chance," Pierce said.
"What I try to do in this locker room, or with my teammates, is just try to give them belief that we can beat this team. They're not unbeatable."
Pierce only had 14 points and four rebounds, but he scored his points efficiently (50 percent field goal percentage, 66 percent on 3-pointers), and Deron Williams rebounded from a Game 2 no-show.
"We just had a little success against them during the regular season. We played them well and we feel like we match up well with them," Williams said. "And if we're on top of our game, we're playing defense the way we're capable of playing, like we did the last game, we put ourselves in a good position to win."
Miami coach Erik Spoelstra believes the Heat were outworked on both ends of the floor in Game 3, and thinks an entire overhaul of their effort will be necessary to go up 3-1. "The defeat was complete," Spoelstra said. "It was both sides of the basketball. It was like trying to plug in holes in a leaking dam. There was so many things that were not in our favor really on both ends of the court."
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