Then again, the way Gerald Wallace sees it, they never should have been in that predicament.
Gerald Wallace inbounded to Williams, but Jennings was draped over the point guard's right side.
Brooklyn was leading by 14 after a dunk by Gerald Wallace with 3:45 left in the fourth.
Augustin was called for a foul, Gerald Wallace made 1 of 2 free throws to cut the lead to two.
Lopez added eight points and four rebounds in the third while Williams, Gerald Wallace and Johnson combined for five third-quarter 3-pointers.
Even Gerald Wallace awoke from his two-month slumber to finish with 14 points on five of seven shooting from the field.
Keith Bogans started for Brooklyn in place of F Gerald Wallace, who missed his second straight game with a sore left heel.
Gerald Wallace finished with 13 rebounds, including a tip-in with 32 seconds left that represented the other fourth-quarter basket by a starter.
Despite playing without injured starters Joe Johnson (heel) and Gerald Wallace (foot), the playoff-bound Nets closed their 17-day trip by making some history.
Carlesimo said before the game that he talked to Gerald Wallace about his role after the veteran forward wondered where he fit with the team.
It was quite the change from the end of regulation, when Brooklyn grabbed a 14-point lead on Gerald Wallace's dunk with 3:45 left in the fourth.
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Gerald Wallace came back from an ankle injury in the third quarter to deliver a violent screen in the fourth that left Robinson prostrated on the United Center floor.
Gerald Wallace, with cotton stuffed into his right nostril, missed the first of two free throws but made the second and the Nets led 100-97 with 14 seconds to play.
Williams is playing on a winning team with current All-Star Brook Lopez and former All-Stars Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace, but the success has come at the cost of his own statistics.
King then swung a deal with Atlanta for Joe Johnson, re-signed Gerald Wallace, whom he acquired last February from Portland in exchange for a first-round draft pick that turned out to be Damian Lillard.
Tied at 18 after Stuckey's layup with 3:34 left in the first quarter, the Nets closed the opening period on a 13-0 run keyed by Gerald Wallace, who had been struggling all season long.
Carlesimo used the game to gauge how forward Gerald Wallace would react after missing the last two games due to a heel injury that was listed as a lower left leg contusion by the teams.
This season got off to a rocky start: legendary coach Larry Brown stepped down and the team seemed to be heading into rebuilding mode when it got rid of Gerald Wallace and a few other players.
They re-signed starters Deron Williams, Brook Lopez and Gerald Wallace and traded for Atlanta Hawks All-Star Joe Johnson in hopes of being a contender in their first season in Brooklyn after they were longtime losers in New Jersey.
This opening Nets season was not at all a disappointment (try being a Bobcats fan on for size) but they are tied to comically extravagant deals for Williams and Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace, so expectations shouldn't be low.
Brooklyn burst out of the locker room with a 10-4 run, and back-to-back 3-pointers later in the third period by Gerald Wallace kicked off an 11-2 surge that got the Nets within 69-65 on Williams' free throw with 5:29 left.
Andray Blatche scored 10 of his 13 points in the fourth quarter and Gerald Wallace had consecutive baskets in the finishing surge as the Nets finally pulled away in a game they led most of the way, but never by too much.
The moves, in addition to newly signed deals with forwards Gerald Wallace, Brook Lopez and Kris Humphries were supposed to immediately inject the Nets with enough fire power to escape the shadow of the New York Knicks and become the talk of the towns.
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