I was all set to do a standard “Nets at the midpoint” piece. You know, how the team and its young players have grown over the first half, overcoming a multitude of injuries to take elite teams like the Celtics and Raptors down to the wire three times in the last 10 days. With Monday’s heartbreaking 114-113 overtime loss to Toronto at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn became the first team in five years to play five consecutive games decided by three or fewer points.
But then I scrapped it.
The more I thought about the Nets blowing another game they could have won, the more vitriol spewed in my head.