Before the Nets played the Bulls Friday night, the organization dropped the latest edition of “The Bridge,” its video magazine. In it, Jacque Vaughn repeated his new mantra for the new Nets: “show up and do the work.”
Well, they showed up.
In one the worst losses in team history — and that’s saying something, Brooklyn lost to Chicago, 131-87, in the Windy City. The score didn’t reflect just how bad it was. The Nets lacked virtually everything a team needs to win, starting with energy. The Bulls went up, 11-0, then 14-5 and stayed up throughout the game while the Nets looked disinterested, discombobulated until late in the game when Cam Thomas and Seth Curry came alive, outscoring the Bulls, 36-34, in the fourth.