3 Takeaways from Nets Weekend Sweep at the hands of the Knicks

There’s only a handful of teams this year that every Nets fan — even those focused solely on May ping pong balls — at least partially want to see their team win against. With two tries at the same one this past weekend, they came up short on both occasions.

Ironically, Friday evening’s contest vs the Knicks gave the “team tank” Nets fans something they would have been happy with had it come against any other team other than perhaps New York, Boston, or Philly: a near-win in which Brooklyn’s young players show promise.

Did they ever from Cam Thomas, who lit up the garden yet again with a 40-piece. Still, the Nets fell by a 124-122 final score, as some last second heroics from Jalen Brunson and…