NET NOTES

MILWAUKEE – The Nets had a chance to tie with 1:15 to go and Jason Kidd missed a driving lefty layup. At 10.8, the Nets had a chance to take the lead. Kidd was indecisive on whether to go glass or straight in and missed. And then with a last gasp chance to tie, Kidd hurled an air ball from the left corner.

Very, very un-Jason Kidd-like.

“I think you get accustomed to J-Kidd making shots like that so you are a little surprised,” admitted Byron Scott after the Nets dropped an 86-83 decision to Bucks here last night. “The one with (10.8) seconds, I thought he was indecisive. I thought he was going to bank it. He probably thought about shooting it straight away and got caught right in the middle. It was just an off night.”

And Kidd just doesn’t have those. So many times, he has dragged the Nets’ butt out of the fire that when he doesn’t serve as hero, it is near-shocking.

“Good looks. Missed all of them. That is part of the game,” said Kidd, who finished at 3-of-14. “The layup and the three was a good look. I might have rushed it. I had a little more time to get it off but you can’t ask for better looks especially on the road. I just didn’t get them to go in.”

On the jumper, where the Nets could have taken the lead, “I was in between using the glass and going straight. That’s not a good position to be in with the game on the line,” Kidd said.

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On Wednesday against the Wizards, Rodney Rogers was the hero and Zoran Planinic a nice supporting cast member.

Last night, “wasn’t as good. Wish it was but it wasn’t,” Scott said.

Rogers, back to being the first forward off the bench – and he’ll stay that way for tomorrow’s home game with Indy – was 0-4 shooting while Planinic, after a nice second quarter run, was on the floor during much of Milwaukee’s third-quarter comeback.

Jason Collins scored 12 points for the Nets.

Bucks shot .533 in the fourth quarter.

When he first subbed, Scott went back to a three-guard rotation of Kidd, Kerry Kittles and Lucious Harris. And that trio accounted for – honest – 15 of the team’s first 18 rebounds.

Collins was called for absurd third- quarter technical. Daniel Santiago clearly pushed off for re bounder. Collins was called for the foul. Collins protested. Collins was T’d by ref Joe Crawford.

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Phoenix coach Mike D’Antoni on depth of the Bucks who beat his Suns here last week: “Their bench is the same as the starters. There’s no difference.”