The Brooklyn Nets trailed 68-48 at halftime on Friday night.
They had just been victimized by one of those stretches from a very spry Kawhi Leonard, all-encompassing dominance that decided the game in the second quarter. The Nets actually won the first quarter, which looked and surely felt nice after getting 30-pieced by the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night.
In a very courteous gesture to the beat writers, Brooklyn wasted no time letting us know which direction the game was headed in the third quarter. Turnover, James Harden pull-up, turnover, Kawhi Leonard pull-up.