A rebuilding team, especially one with a 59-point loss in its rearview mirror, isn’t supposed to hang with the best one in the league. These Nets have made going off-script a habit so far this year. Tonight though, they did what everyone expected them to.
While most people likely chose playoff football today over this asymmetric war, the Nets kept on punching up out west. They didn’t land any major blows. At best, they gave their heavyweight opponent a scratch or two. But they did keep punching, and after all, that’s all anyone should be asking of the Nets this year.