Nets lose ugly game in Ben Simmons’ return to Philadelphia

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up a double-double for the Nets, but despite a shorthanded Philadelphia 76ers lineup the Nets still fell on Tuesday night.

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The Nets struggled to knock down the open threes, lost the battle along the offensive glass and

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couldn’t get the timely stops when they managed to close the gap in a 115-106 loss to the Sixers.

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Most of the lead-up to the game centered around Simmons’ return to Philadelphia, but the Sixers

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spoiled that return leading for the better part of the night even as the Nets hung around.

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“Overall, the approach. Boils down to that. Just overall as a group how serious, how focused, how

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dedicated were we on every possession,” Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said. “Haven’t asked the group

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that. I will ask them that. Overall, just not what we needed.

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That’s the great thing about basketball, you pay for it if you don’t bring it.”

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Simmons heard plenty of razzing throughout the night from the home crowd, which had been

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