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NEW YORK — A handful of Nets players huddled on the court at HSS Training Center during shootaround Tuesday morning, asking coaches about the pesky point-differential tiebreaker that has brought arguably the loudest commentary surrounding the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament. Brooklyn was entering its matchup with Toronto already plus-8 through its first three games of Group C play and would need to emerge victorious, then potentially need a greater point differential in tournament play than both the Celtics and Magic in order to advance out of its opening pack.