The Brooklyn Nets played well on Saturday night, and there is no taking that away from them.
Against one of the league’s best, most physical teams in the Houston Rockets, Jordi Fernández’s team only turned it over 12 times, survived the rebounding battle, and blocked nine shots. The Rockets had a ton of second-chance points, but partly because they missed all of their first chances.
The Nets even shot the ball pretty well, if not spectacularly; using so much collective energy on the glass dimmed their transition attack a bit, and they otherwise would have posted a much higher score.