Pushing for a playoff spot with gritty play, featuring a young but not too young roster, and with a first time All-Star leading the way at small forward, the Orlando Magic checked many, if not all the boxes the Brooklyn Nets hoped to this year.
But nope.
In their Renaissance campaign, one that resembled the Nets of say 2018-19 like something aka the dark ages for Nets, Orlando’s winless record vs Brooklyn seemed one of the biggest anomalies in this exceedingly odd season. Orlando moved quickly to correct that tonight.
Fresh off a game where Brooklyn killed Grit and Grind by giving them a taste of their own medicine, winning nearly every “hustle” metric you can think of, the Nets went back to looking like a team that’s buffering, buffering due to a bad internet connection.