The Brooklyn Nets tasted their own medicine on Friday night, and it poisoned them.
On Friday night, Jordi Fernández’s band of agitators returned home following a four-game road trip, the last three out West. And with increasingly skeleton crews against the Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, and Phoenix Suns, Brooklyn marched into those cities city and out-willed opponents that only over-matched them on paper.
As Brooklyn’s stable of available players decreased, the wins only grew in absurdity. A gutty win full of 3-point shooting and Cam Thomas buckets in Sacramento was believable enough. But an 18-point comeback in the second half to defeat the #1 seed Warriors the very next night?