It was evident from the first minute Friday night at Barclays. The Nets didn’t have it. And Kenny Atkinson thinks it may be that the aren’t over their stressful China trip.
“When we came back there was special protocol,” Atkinson said at practice last week. “It wasn’t like we were coming back from Philly or something. We had a plan in place, put together by our performance team obviously, and we adhere to it. I think we knew this when we first added the trip that was going to be important, how we treated this week.