Beating up on cellar dwellers like the Knicks is one thing, but taking on heavyweights like Toronto, Boston and Houston is another.
The Nets caught a 122-105 beating in Toronto to start off this grueling three-game gauntlet. And if they don’t want one rout to fester into a full-fledged slump, they knew they had better show a lot more Monday at Barclays Center against Boston than they did up north.
“We say we want to be a playoff team — we have to beat playoff teams,” Ed Davis said. “It’s easy to go out and beat the Hawks and Knicks and teams like that.