The Brooklyn Nets were not going to play the same game in Los Angeles twice. Not after losing by fifty-nine points to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday, “one of those days that, you know, you don’t do anything right,” in the words of Head Coach Jordi Fernández.
A loss like that was inevitable for the Nets, though a 59-point margin seems excessive. Still, Brooklyn was once again playing without half their roster (the good half), on the second night of a back-to-back after flying in from Portland. All that adversity finally caught up to them, and the offense died a painful death.