Thornton, Kings crush Nets
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sacramento, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Marcus Thornton scored a game-high 24 points to lead the Sacramento Kings in a 107-86 rout of the Brooklyn Nets at Sleep Train Arena.
Isaiah Thomas added 19 points and Greivis Vasquez had 17 points and 12 assists for the Kings, who snapped a five-game skid.
"It's good...first win in November," Thomas said of snapping the skid. "Every win is important and you're only as good as your last game so I feel like we're pretty good right now."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Brook Lopez scored 16 points to go with nine rebounds, while Deron Williams and Shaun Livingston finished with 13 points apiece for the Nets, who are off to a disappointing 2-5 start.
"There's a process that we have to go through," Nets head coach Jason Kidd said of the team's struggles. "This is something that you're going to go through as a team at some point in the season it just happens that we're going through it a little bit earlier than we expected."
The Kings led 23-19 after a back-and-forth first quarter.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Thornton, who buried four 3-pointers, capped a 19-5 run with a trey from the corner to give Sacramento a 41-23 lead just past the midway point of the quarter.
Brooklyn clawed its way back into the game as Paul Pierce buried a pair of free throws to make it 43-36 with 2:10 remaining, but the Kings closed the half with a 9-4 flurry for a 52-40 spread.
Sacramento's lead swelled to 23 several times in the third quarter, and Brooklyn couldn't get closer than 13 the rest of the way.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Game Notes
Sacramento scored 20 points off 15 Brooklyn turnovers, while giving it away just seven times ... The Kings' bench outscored the Nets' reserves 57-29 ... The Nets shot just 37.8 percent (31-for-82) and went just 3-for-13 from 3- point range.