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NEW YORK -- They are the NBAs most expensive team, filled with All-Stars and the belief they can contend for a championship. Heres what else the Brooklyn Nets are at the moment: a last-place disappointment. "Tough times right now," forward Kevin Garnett said. They got tougher Sunday, when reserve Rodney Stuckey scored a season-high 27 points in the Detroit Pistons 109-97 victory that sent the Nets to a fifth straight loss and sole possession of the Atlantic Division basement. The Nets, with their enormous payroll and enormous expectations, fell to 3-10, a half-game behind the New York Knicks, and were hearing boos at Barclays Center in the second half. "The balls just bouncing the opponents way right now and weve just got to stay together," coach Jason Kidd said. Greg Monroe had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons, who bounced back from consecutive losses to Atlanta. Brandon Jennings added 14 points and 10 assists, making all 10 free throws to make up for a 2-for-10 shooting performance. "Road wins are hard to get and any time you get a road win its huge," Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks said. Joe Johnson made eight 3-pointers and scored a season-high 34 points, but the short-handed Nets couldnt overcome another cold night from Paul Pierce and Garnett, who were a combined 7 for 22. Pierce finished with 19 points, but was 5 of 13 after making his last two when the game was long since decided. Garnett shot 2 of 9 for four points. The Nets again played without starters Brook Lopez and Deron Williams, who have sprained left ankles, and top reserves Andrei Kirilenko (back spasms) and Jason Terry (bruised left knee). "Its tough when look at the record, 3-10, 3-11, whatever our record is, and know weve dug ourselves quite a big ....................., no matter if weve got the injuries or not," Pierce said. "We still feel like were talented enough to win these type of games." They played a strong first half but were undone again by a miserable third quarter, as they have in all 10 losses. The Nets had been outscored by 77 points (8.6 per game) in the third quarters of their first nine losses and they were even worse in this one, getting clobbered 34-15. "We have to be worst team in the league when it comes to third quarters and thats not acceptable," Garnett said. Leading by seven at halftime, Brooklyn needed less than 4 minutes to fall behind by four after Detroit came out of the locker room with a 15-4 spurt. Then, leading by one midway through the period, the Pistons outscored the Nets 17-6 to close the quarter and take a 78-66 advantage to the fourth. Stuckey kept the Nets at bay from there, scoring 17 in the fourth. He came in leading all Eastern Conference reserves with 14.8 points per game and helped the Pistons overcome 4-for-20 shooting from starting guards Jennings and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. "Im just trying to come in and just be that energy guy that we need off the bench," Stuckey said. "Just bring energy and whatever my teammates need me to do. They rely on me to score some baskets. Thats what Ive got to do." Meanwhile, the team with the payroll of around $180 million after luxury taxes went with the likes of Mason Plumlee and Mirza Teletovic for much of the fourth quarter before Kidd finally went back to Pierce and Garnett with about 4 minutes left. Brooklyn cut a 16-point deficit to 96-91 after consecutive 3-pointers by Johnson, but Stuckey banked in a jumper, and Monroe followed Johnsons free throw with a dunk to push the lead to 100-92 with 2:18 to play. Nets players made the first four baskets, though the last of those counted for the Pistons when Andray Blatche tipped it into his own hoop. Detroit led 23-19 after one quarter. But Johnson hit all five shots and scored 13 points in the second, when Brooklyn made 13 of 17 (76.5 per cent). A 3-pointer from Pierce and two from Johnson led the Nets on a 16-5 surge that turned a one-point deficit into a 51-41 lead. NOTES: Detroits Andre Drummond finished with nine points and 10 rebounds, ending his streak of seven straight double-doubles. He was 1 of 4 after the Nets resorted to intentionally fouling him in the fourth quarter. ... Garnett tied Hall of Famer Gary Payton for ninth on the NBAs career list with his 1,335th game. Bradley Fletcher Eagles Jersey . Nowitzki scored 28 points, Harris had a season-high 14 for the second straight game and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Detroit Pistons 116-106 Sunday night. DeMarco Murray Eagles Jersey . 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But when the wind is swirling and gusting as it has been this week at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden theres nothing simple about it. Caroline Wozniacki, who won last years BNP Paribas Open, said when she practised Tuesday evening "it was like a hurricane, it was so windy and cold." The weather hadnt changed much Wednesday, when the 12-day, US$11-million event got under way with 16 womens singles matches and winds gusting up to 32 kilometres per hour. Wozniacki, No. 4 in the world, didnt have to play one of those matches. She was one of the 32 seeded players who got first-round byes. So she could sit and watch, and empathize with those who did. Reigning Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova said in those conditions "its not really about the tennis," and Wozniacki said the only viable strategy is to "move your feet and play in the middle of the court - depending on how much wind there is, naturally. If its like this, its just about trying to get it over the net and inside the lines more than the other person." Wozniacki said experimenting with the tension of the racquet strings to alter the pace of the shots doesnt help, either, "because from one side youre hitting the ball hard and it doesnt go anywhere and from the other side you hit it a little bit and it goes into the fence." Later in womens action, qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak of Blainville, Que., lost her first round match, 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7) to American Sloane Stephens. The hard-fought match lasted three hours 12 minutes 40 seconds, with Wozniak breaking Stephens twice late in the third set to force 5-5 and 6-6 ties before losing the tiebreaker.dddddddddddd In mens play, Vasek Pospisil of Vernon, B.C., qualified for the main draw with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Belgiums Maxime Authom. Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., failed to qualify, losing 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 to Bobby Reynolds of the United States. American Jamie Hampton, who made her debut in the top 100 last week, had little trouble keeping her shots in the court and routed Polona Hercog of Slovakia, 6-1, 6-1, in the opening match on stadium court. American Coco Vandeweghe felt she dealt with the wind fairly well in the first set of her match, too. After that it got difficult, however, and Vandeweghe lost to Jarmila Gajdosova, of Austria, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. The oldest player in the womens field, 41-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan, was a 6-1, 6-3 winner over 26-year-old Pauline Parmentier of France. But American Jill Craybas, 37, lost to 21-year-old Mona Barthel of Germany, 6-1, 6-2. Barthels reward for the victory is a second-round match with top-ranked Victoria Azarenka. Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic got the first win of the tournament, a 6-1, 6-1 decision over Laura Pous-Tio of Spain, and later in the day Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan, Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland, Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain and Sorana Cirstea of Romania moved into the second round. First round activity will continue Thursday, with the men joining the women and the forecast calling for warm temperatures and winds under 16 km/h. Wholesale NFL Jerseys ' ' '