The Nets win over the Rockets may have been impressive to the fans, but not to national (and some local) writers. They are still knocking the Nets future as well as its present.
As Ian Levy of Sports Illustrated writes,
"The Brooklyn Nets are a five-alarm dumpster-fire, even after they shocked Houston on the road Wednesday night for their first victory of the season ... Sure, there will be some inevitable upward progression to the mean—like, Wednesday night, for example—but not nearly enough to mask the stench of doom and decay hanging over this team.