After the Brooklyn Nets pulled off their biggest comeback win since leaving New Jersey in 2012 by beating the Orlando Magic 117-115 Friday night after trailing by 21 points in the second quarter, the sensation I felt wasn’t so much disbelief as confirmation.
When Jonathan Isaac dropped in a layup off a feed from Nikola Vucevic with 4:35 left in the first half to put Orlando up 58-37, the feeling I had while watching it was best summed up this way:
“They got this.”
That feeling never left, particularly not when D’Angelo Russell finished the first half with a flurry, scoring Brooklyn’s last 19 points of the second quarter and helping get the deficit back to 13 points by halftime at 67-54.