Brooklyn Nets: Player grades from listless loss at Washington

The basketball gods, it seems, are not without a sense of irony. Allen Crabbe, in the throes of the worst shooting slump of his career, was the one regular member of the Brooklyn Nets’ rotation Saturday night who had a decent shooting night.

He was 5-for-10 overall, knocked down 3-of-5 from deep and his 14 points were a team-high.

Crabbe also avoided committing a turnover, one of the few Nets who could make that claim, after a couple of rough games with the basketball in his hands.

Spencer Dinwiddie was out of sorts most of the night. He finished a couple of drives, but his jump shot wasn’t there and he allowed his frustration to boil over in the fourth quarter when he was assessed a technical foul after bemoaning the lack of a call after he missed a driving attempt.

Dinwiddie is one of those players — and we’ve all known and played with them — who believes he was fouled nearly every time he misses a shot and never commits one on the defensive end. It’s annoying, but it’s also part of his makeup as a player. Sometimes, it results in him getting T’d up.

Dinwiddie leads the Nets this season with four technical fouls, which is three more than he had last season in 80 games, so it’s something the coaching staff might want to reign in.

Those four techs match the total of the rest of the roster, by the way, with Caris LeVert called for two and D’Angelo Russell and Ed Davis each getting assessed with one so far this season.